Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
ISBN: 978-1-405-14883-2 February 2009 Wiley-Blackwell 352 Pages
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Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.
- Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.
- Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.
- Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.
- Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.
- Written by an established author with an international reputation.
Preface.
1: Introduction: The Scientific Study of Language.
Discussion.
Exercises.
2: Diagnostics for Syntactic Structure.
Discussion.
Exercises.
3: Lexical Projections and Functional Projections.
Discussion.
Exercises.
4: Refining Structures: From One Subject Position to Many.
Discussion.
Exercises.
5: The Periphery of the Sentence.
Discussion.
Exercises.
Bibliography.
Index.
- An introductory textbook written by an established author with an international reputation.
- Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.
- Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.
- Features data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.
- Does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.