Analysing English sentence structure : an intermediate course in syntax /

• Main Author: Radford, Andrew (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
• Subjects: Αγγλική γλώσσα > Προτάσεις; Αγγλική γλώσσα > Σύνταξη

"Analysing English Sentence Structure is an intermediate coursebook using illustrative data drawn from a wide range of varieties and registers of English. Richly supported with exercises, hints and chapter summaries, and accompanied with free online Answerbooks for students and instructors, thi...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Background
• 1.0 Overview
• 1.1 Basic concepts
• 1.1.1 Prescriptive and descriptive grammar
• 1.1.2 Syntactic data
• 1.1.3 Categories and features
• 1.2 Generating syntactic structures
• 1.2.1 Merge
• 1.2.2 X-bar syntax
• 1.2.3 Adjunction
• 1.3 Invisible structure and structural relations
• 1.3.1 Null constituents
• 1.3.2 Case-marking and c‑command
• 1.4 Movement operations
• 1.4.1 A‑bar Movement
• 1.4.2 A‑Movement
• 1.4.3 Head Movement
• 1.5 Blocking mechanisms
• 1.5.1 Constraints
• 1.5.2 Filters
• 1.6 Summary
• 1.7 Bibliographical notes
• 1.8 Workbook
• Exercise 1.1
• Exercise 1.2
• Exercise 1.3
• Exercise 1.4
• Exercise 1.5
• 2 A‑Movement
• 2.0 Overview
• 2.1 VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis
• 2.1.1 Subjects in Belfast and Standard English
• 2.1.2 Further evidence for VP‑internal subjects
• 2.2 Argument structure and theta roles
• 2.2.1 Predicates and arguments
• 2.2.2 Theta roles
• 2.2.3 Theta-marking
• 2.3 Unaccusative structures
• 2.3.1 Unaccusative predicates
• 2.3.2 Unaccusatives compared with other predicates
• 2.3.3 The syntax of unaccusative subjects
• 2.4 Passive structures
• 2.4.1 Simple passives
• 2.4.2 Cross-clausal passives
• 2.4.3 Constraints on Passivisation
• 2.5 Raising and Control structures
• 2.5.1 Raising structures
• 2.5.2 Control structures
• 2.5.3 Differences between Raising and Control
• 2.6 Mixed structures
• 2.6.1 A mixed Passive, Control and Raising sentence
• 2.6.2 A mixed Unaccusative and Raising sentence
• 2.7 Summary
• 2.8 Bibliographical notes
• 2.9 Workbook
• Exercise 2.1
• Exercise 2.2
• Exercise 2.3
• Exercise 2.4
• Exercise 2.5
• Exercise 2.6
• 3 Agreement
• 3.0 Overview
• 3.1 Agreement, A‑Movement and Case-marking. 3.1.1 Agreement and A‑Movement
• 3.1.2 Case-marking
• 3.1.3 Valued and unvalued features
• 3.2 Agreement and case in expletive clauses
• 3.2.1 Expletive it clauses
• 3.2.2 Expletive there clauses
• 3.2.3 Conditions on the use of expletives
• 3.3 Agreement, A‑Movement and case in infinitives
• 3.3.1 Raising infinitives
• 3.3.2 ECM infinitives
• 3.3.3 Passive infinitives
• 3.3.4 Infinitival CPs
• 3.4 Cross-clausal agreement
• 3.4.1 Agreement across a finite TP
• 3.4.2 Agreement across a finite CP
• 3.4.3 Copy Raising with non-expletive subjects
• 3.5 Summary
• 3.6 Bibliographical notes
• 3.7 Workbook
• Exercise 3.1
• Exercise 3.2
• Exercise 3.3
• Exercise 3.4
• 4 The clause periphery
• 4.0 Overview
• 4.1 The Cartographic approach
• 4.1.1 Force and topic projections
• 4.1.2 In situ and ex situ topics
• 4.1.3 Multiple topic structures
• 4.2 Focus projections
• 4.2.1 Peripheral focused constituents
• 4.2.2 Comparing topic and focus
• 4.3 Modifier and finiteness projections
• 4.3.1 Modifier projections
• 4.3.2 Finiteness projections
• 4.4 Complete and truncated clauses
• 4.4.1 Complete clauses
• 4.4.2 Truncated clauses
• 4.5 Summary
• 4.6 Bibliographical notes
• 4.7 Workbook
• Exercise 4.1
• Exercise 4.2
• Exercise 4.3
• Exercise 4.4
• 5 More peripheral constituents
• 5.0 Overview
• 5.1 Negative and Interrogative Inversion
• 5.1.1 Negative Inversion
• 5.1.2 Interrogative Inversion
• 5.2 Wh‑questions without Interrogative Inversion
• 5.2.1 Embedded wh‑questions
• 5.2.2 How come questions
• 5.3 Yes-no questions
• 5.3.1 Root yes-no questions
• 5.3.2 Embedded yes-no questions
• 5.4 Exclamative and relative clauses
• 5.4.1 Exclamative clauses
• 5.4.2 Relative clauses
• 5.5 Summary
• 5.6 Bibliographical notes
• 5.7 Workbook
• Exercise 5.1
• Exercise 5.2
• Exercise 5.3
• Exercise 5.4. 6 The subperiphery
• 6.0 Overview
• 6.1 Auxiliary and subject projections
• 6.1.1 Auxiliary projections
• 6.1.2 Subject projection
• 6.2 Subperipheral adverbs
• 6.2.1 Analysing ADVPs as specifiers
• 6.2.2 Relative ordering of multiple ADVPs
• 6.3 Word order variation
• 6.3.1 ADVPs and auxiliaries
• 6.3.2 ADVPs and subjects
• 6.3.3 Postmodifying ADVPs
• 6.4 Other subperipheral constituents
• 6.4.1 PPs and subordinate clauses
• 6.4.2 Floating QPs: Stranded under movement
• 6.4.3 Floating QPs: In a dedicated projection
• 6.5 Summary
• 6.6 Bibliographical notes
• 6.7 Workbook
• Exercise 6.1
• Exercise 6.2
• Exercise 6.3
• Exercise 6.4
• 7 Abbreviated registers
• 7.0 Overview
• 7.1 Subject Drop
• 7.1.1 The nature of Subject Drop
• 7.1.2 A Truncation account of Subject Drop
• 7.1.3 Subject+Auxiliary Drop
• 7.2 Auxiliary Drop
• 7.2.1 A Truncation account of Auxiliary Drop
• 7.2.2 A Left Edge Ellipsis account
• 7.2.3 A prosodic account
• 7.3 Article Drop
• 7.3.1 A Truncation analysis of Article Drop
• 7.3.2 Null article and article ellipsis accounts
• 7.4 Be Drop
• 7.4.1 Characteristics of Be Drop
• 7.4.2 Truncation accounts of Be Drop
• 7.4.3 Be Drop and Article Drop
• 7.5 Object Drop
• 7.5.1 A Topic Drop analysis of null objects
• 7.5.2 An Article Drop analysis of null objects
• 7.5.3 Null objects as instances of a null pronoun/pro
• 7.6 Summary
• 7.7 Bibliographical notes
• 7.8 Workbook
• Exercise 7.1
• Exercise 7.2
• Exercise 7.3
• Exercise 7.4
• Exercise 7.5
• Glossary and Abbreviations
• References
• Index.