English Syntax

by Kim, Jong-Bok

• ISBN13: 9781575865676
• ISBN10: 157586567X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study

Summary

Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis.English Syntaxaims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh- questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts.

Author Biography

Jong-Bok Kim is associate professor at the School of English at Kyung Hee University, Korea.
Peter Sells is professor of linguistics at Stanford University.

 

 

Table of Contents

Some Basic Properties of English Syntax	p. 1
From Words to Major Phrase Types	p. 11
Syntactic Forms, Grammatical Functions, and Semantic Roles	p. 35
Head, Complements, and Modifiers	p. 51
More on Subjects and Complements	p. 77
Noun Phrases and Agreement	p. 103
Raising and Control Constructions	p. 131
Auxiliary Constructions	p. 155
Passive Constructions	p. 181
Wh-Questions	p. 199
Relative Clause Constructions	p. 229
Special Constructions	p. 253
References	p. 281
Index	p. 291
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