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ISBN 10: 1137605801
ISBN 13: 9781137605801
Author: Bas Aarts
This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. The text is written in a user-friendly style with many ‘hands-on’ in-text and chapter-final exercises. At the end of each chapter there is a section with suggested further reading material, and there is a bibliography and list of recommended reference works at the end of the book.
English Syntax and Argumentation (Macmillan Modern Linguistics) 5th Table of contents:
Part I Function and Form
1. Introduction
Key Concepts
2. Function
2.1 Subject and Predicate
2.2 Predicator
2.3 Direct Object
2.4 Indirect Object
2.5 Adjunct
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
3. Form: Words, Word Classes and Phrases
3.1 The notion ‘word’
3.2 Nouns and determinatives
3.3 Adjectives
3.4 Verbs
3.5 Prepositions
3.6 Adverbs
3.7 Conjunctions
3.8 Interjections
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
4. More on Form: Clauses and Sentences
4.1 Clauses and clause hierarchies
4.2 The rank scale
4.3 Clause types
4.3.1 Declarative clauses
4.3.2 Interrogative clauses
4.3.3 Imperative clauses
4.3.4 Exclamative clauses
4.3.5 The pragmatics of the clause types
4.4 More on tree diagrams
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
5. The Function–Form Interface
5.1 Function–form relationships
5.2 Realisations of the Subject
5.2.1 NPs functioning as Subject
5.2.2 PPs functioning as Subject
5.2.3 Finite clauses functioning as Subject
5.2.4 Nonfinite clauses functioning as Subject
5.2.4.1 To-infinitive clauses functioning as Subject
5.2.4.2 -ing participle clauses functioning as Subject
5.2.4.3 Small clauses functioning as Subject
5.3 Realisation of the Predicate and Predicator
5.4 Realisations of the Direct Object
5.4.1 NPs functioning as Direct Object
5.4.2 PPs functioning as Direct Object
5.4.3 Finite clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.3.1 That-clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.3.2 Finite wh-clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.4 Nonfinite clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.4.1 To-infinitive clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.4.2 Bare infinitive clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.4.3 -ing participle clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.4.4 -ed participle clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.4.4.5 Small clauses functioning as Direct Object
5.5 Realisations of the Indirect Object
5.5.1 NPs functioning as Indirect Object
5.5.2 Wh-clauses functioning as Indirect Object
5.6 Realisations of Adjuncts
5.6.1 AdvPs functioning as Adjunct
5.6.2 PPs functioning as Adjunct
5.6.3 NPs functioning as Adjunct
5.6.4 Finite clauses functioning as Adjunct
5.6.5 Nonfinite clauses functioning as Adjunct
5.6.5.1 To-infinitive clauses functioning as Adjunct
5.6.5.2 Bare infinitive clauses functioning as Adjunct
5.6.5.3 -ing participle clauses functioning as Adjunct
5.6.5.4 -ed participle clauses functioning as Adjunct
5.6.5.5 Small clauses functioning as Adjunct
5.7 Motivating the analyses in this chapter
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
Part II Elaboration
6. Predicates, Arguments and Thematic Roles
6.1 Predicates and arguments
6.2 Thematic roles
6.3 Grammatical functions and thematic roles
6.4 Selectional restrictions
6.5 Three levels of description
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
7. Cross-categorial Generalisations: X-bar Syntax
7.1 Heads, Complements and Specifiers
7.2 Adjuncts
7.3 Cross-categorial generalisations
7.4 Subcategorisation
7.4.1 Subcategorisation versus argument/thematic structure
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
8. More on Clauses
8.1 The I-node
8.2 Subordinate clauses
8.2.1 Clauses functioning as Direct Object, Subject and Adjunct
8.2.2 Clauses functioning as Complement within phrases
8.2.3 Clauses functioning as Adjuncts within NPs
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
9. Movement
9.1 Verb Movement: aspectual auxiliaries
9.2 NP-Movement: passive
9.3 NP-Movement: Subject-to-Subject Raising
9.4 Movement in interrogative sentences: Subject–Auxiliary Inversion
9.5 Wh-Movement
9.6 The structure of sentences containing one or more auxiliaries
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
10. Tense, Aspect and Mood
10.1 Time and tense
10.1.1 The present tense
10.1.1.1 Uses of the present tense
10.1.2 The past tense
10.1.2.1 Uses of the past tense
10.1.3 Ways of referring to future time
10.2 Aspectuality and aspect
10.2.1 Progressive aspect
10.2.1.1 The progressive construction
10.2.1.2 Uses of the progressive
10.2.2 Perfect aspect
10.2.2.1 The perfect construction
10.2.2.2 Uses of the present perfect
10.3 Modality and mood
10.3.1 Different types of modality
10.3.2 The core modals
10.3.2.1 The morphosyntactic characteristics of the core modals
10.3.2.2 Meanings expressed by the core modals
10.3.3 Other ways of expressing modality
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
Part III Argumentation
11. Syntactic Argumentation
11.1 The art of argumentation
11.2 Economy of description: Linguistically Significant Generalisations and Occam’s Razor
11.2.1 Linguistically Significant Generalisations
11.2.2 Occam’s Razor
11.2.2.1 Verb–preposition constructions
11.2.2.2 Achieving economy in the domain of functional terminology
11.3 Further constraints on description: elegance and independent justifications
11.3.1 Elegance of description
11.3.2 Independent justification
11.4 Evaluating analyses
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
12. Constituency: Movement and Substitution
12.1 The Movement Test
12.1.1 Movements to the left
12.1.1.1 Topicalisation
12.1.1.2 VP-Preposing
12.1.1.3 Though-Movement
12.1.2 Movements to the right
12.1.2.1 Heavy NP Shift (HNPS)
12.1.2.2 Extraposition of Subject clauses
12.1.2.3 Extraposition from NP
12.2 Substitution
12.2.1 Substitution of nominal projections: NP and N′
12.2.2 Substitution of verbal projections: VP and V′
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
13. Constituency: Some Additional Tests
13.1 The Coordination Test
13.2 The Cleft and Pseudocleft Test
13.3 The Insertion Test
13.4 The Constituent Response Test
13.5 The Somewhere Else Test
13.6 The Meaning Test
13.7 A case study: the naked pizza eating construction
13.8 Some caveats regarding the tests
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
14. Predicates and Arguments Revisited
14.1 Establishing argumenthood
14.1.1 Meaning
14.1.2 Dummy elements and idiom chunks
14.1.3 Passivisation
14.2 Two further types of verb + NP + to-infinitive construction: persuade and want
14.2.1 Persuade
14.2.2 Want
14.2.3 Overview
14.3 Concluding remarks
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
Part IV Application
15. Information Packaging
15.1 Preposing
15.1.1 Topicalisation
15.1.2 Left Dislocation
15.2 Postposing
15.2.1 Right Dislocation
15.2.2 Postposing of heavy constituents
15.2.3 Extraposition
15.3 Inversion
15.4 Cleft constructions
15.4.1 It-clefts
15.4.2 Pseudoclefts
15.5 Existential constructions
15.5.1 Bare existentials
15.5.2 Extended existentials
15.5.3 The presentational construction
15.6 The passive construction
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
16. Grammatical Indeterminacy
16.1 Category boundaries and gradience
16.2 Subsective gradience
16.2.1 Nouns
16.2.2 Adjectives
16.2.3 Verbs
16.2.4 Prepositions
16.3 Intersective gradience
16.3.1 Word classes: adjective or adverb?
16.3.2 Word classes: verb or noun?
16.3.3 Phrases: adjective phrase or prepositional phrase?
16.3.4 Constructional gradience
16.4 Concluding remarks
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
17. Case Studies
17.1 Negated modal auxiliaries
17.2 Noun phrase structure
17.2.1 A lot of books
17.2.2 A giant of a man
17.3 Verb complementation
17.3.1 Pattern 1: V + to-infinitive
17.3.2 Pattern 2: V + NP + to-infinitive constructions involving allow
17.3.3 Pattern 3: V + NP + {NP, AP, PP}
17.4 Subordinating conjunctions and prepositions
17.5 Concluding remarks
Key Concepts
Exercises
Further Reading
Glossary
Reference Works: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Grammars and Other Publications on the English Language
Bibliography
Answer Key for the Exercises
Index
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