Syntax / P.H. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, P. H. (Peter Hugoe)

Series:

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Syntax.

English language.

Physical Description:

xix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Summary:

This is a textbook of a fundamental kind, designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of syntax. Professor Matthews does not expound the model of any one theoretical school; nor does he attempt a straight for ward synthesis of aiready published work. He believes that students have much to gain from the descriptive traditions of individual languages as well as from theorists. His approach is therefore thematic, dealing with the nature of syntactic relations and all the main types of construction (predication, attribution, coordination, etc.).

Contents:

1 Constructions 1

Identification of constructions 4

Indeterminacy 17

2 Sentences 26

One sentence or two? 29

Incomplete sentences 38

Generative syntax 45

3 Words 50

Words or morphemes? 50

Markers and determiners 59

4 Constituency and dependency 71

Constituency 73

Dependency 78

Comparison and evaluation 84

5 Predication 96

Subject and predicate 97

Copular constructions 113

6 Objects and adverbs 121

Complements and peripheral elements 123

Adjuncts 136

7 Phrases 146

Complementation and modification 147

Phrases as headed constructions 160

8 Clauses 168

Clause and non-clause 170

Fused constructions 181

9 Coordination 195

Coordination between what? 198

Non-recursive coordinates 215

10 Juxtaposition 220

Apposition 224

Correlative constructions 236

11 Realisation 242

Agreement and government 246

Free and fixed order 255

12 Syntactic paradigms 265

Kernels and transforms 268

Abstract representations 272

Transformational grammar 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0521228948

OCLC:

7844775