English Syntax, second edition (The MIT Press) - Softcover

Baker, C. L. C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262521989 ISBN 13: 9780262521987

Publisher: MIT Press, 1995

Synopsis

An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.

English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory. The detailed revisions throughout this new edition are aimed at increasing its clarity and usefulness. There are changes in almost every chapter, including a large number of new exercises and several new subsections. In addition there are two new appendixes, the first sketching the relation of English syntax to the wider field of generative syntactic theory, the second summarizing the basic syntactic structures discussed in the body of the text.

Specific changes include a fuller discussion, at the beginning of chapter 3, of the difference between complements and modifiers; a more systematic introduction to tree diagrams and what they express, at the end of chapter 3; a new subsection in chapter 4 on how to analyze complex structures; a new discussion of the general nature of missing-phrase constructions in chapter 9; a significant revision of the discussion of comparative clauses in chapter 12; a new discussion of the scope of negation in chapter 15; and, in chapter 16, a new discussion of practical strategies for analyzing conjoined structures.

About this title

About the Author

The late C.L. Baker was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas Austin.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262521989
• ISBN 13: 9780262521987
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 666