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Analyzing Grammar

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  • 28 b/w illus. 47 exercises
  • Page extent: 382 pages
  • Size: 247 x 174 mm
  • Weight: 0.751 kg

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 (ISBN-13: 9780521016537 | ISBN-10: 0521016533)




Contents




  Preface and acknowledgments page xi
  List of abbreviations xiv
1   Grammatical form 1
  1.1  Form, meaning, and use 1
  1.2  Aspects of linguistic form 2
  1.3  Grammar as a system of rules 4
  1.4  Conclusion 5
2   Analyzing word structure 7
  2.1  Identifying meaningful elements 7
  2.2  Morphemes 12
  2.3  Representing word structure 14
  2.4  Analyzing position classes 18
  2.5  A typology of word structure 22
          Exercises 24
3   Constituent structure 26
  3.1  Ambiguity 26
  3.2  Constituency 28
  3.3  Hierarchy 32
  3.4  Syntactic categories 33
  3.5  Tree diagrams: representing the constituents of a clause 38
  3.6  Pronouns and proper names as phrasal categories 44
  3.7  Conclusion 46
          Practice exercises 47
          Exercises 47
4   Semantic roles and Grammatical Relations 51
  4.1  Simple sentences and propositions 52
  4.2  Arguments and semantic roles 53
  4.3  Grammatical Relations 55
  4.4  Adjuncts vs. arguments 58
  4.5  “Indirect objects” and secondary objects 61
  4.6  Conclusion 62
           Exercises 63
5   Lexical entries and well-formed clauses 66
  5.1  Lexical entries 66
  5.2  Argument structure and subcategorization 67
  5.3  Properties of a well-formed clause 72
  5.4  Uniqueness of oblique arguments 79
  5.5  Zero-anaphora (“pro-drop”) 79
  5.6  Further notes on English Phrase Structure 81
  5.7  Conclusion 83
          Exercises 83
6   Noun Phrases 87
  6.1  Complements and adjuncts of N 87
  6.2  Determiners 89
  6.3  Adjectives and Adjective Phrases (AP) 90
  6.4  Possession and recursion 92
  6.5  English NP structure (continued) 97
  6.6  Conclusion 98
          Practice exercise 98
          Exercises 98
7   Case and agreement 102
  7.1  Case 102
  7.2  Agreement 111
  7.3  Conclusion 118
          Exercises 119
8   Noun classes and pronouns 128
  8.1  Noun classes and gender 128
  8.2  Pronouns 135
          Exercises 143
9   Tense, Aspect, and Modality 147
  9.1  Tense 147
  9.2  Aspect 152
  9.3  Perfect vs. perfective 158
  9.4  Combinations of tense and aspect 161
  9.5  Mood 163
  9.6  Modality 165
  9.7  Conclusion 168
          Exercises 169
10   Non-verbal predicates 173
  10.1  Basic clause patterns with and without the copula 174
  10.2  Existential and possessive clauses 180
  10.3  Cross-linguistic patterns 181
  10.4  A note on “impersonal constructions” 185
  10.5  Further notes on the predicate complement (XCOMP) relation 187
  10.6  Conclusion 189
            Exercises 190
11   Special sentence types 196
  11.1  Direct vs. indirect speech acts 196
  11.2  Basic word order 197
  11.3  Commands (imperative sentences) 199
  11.4  Questions (interrogative sentences) 203
  11.5  Negation 211
  11.6  Conclusion 214
            Practice exercise 214
            Exercises 215
12   Subordinate clauses 218
  12.1  Coordinate vs. subordinate clauses 218
  12.2  Complement clauses 220
  12.3  Direct vs. indirect speech 224
  12.4  Adjunct (or Adverbial) clauses 227
  12.5  Relative clauses 230
  12.6  Conclusion 240
            Practice exercise 241
            Exercises 241
13   Derivational morphology 247
  13.1  Stems, roots, and compounds 248
  13.2  Criteria for distinguishing inflection vs. derivation 250
  13.3  Examples of derivational processes 253
  13.4  Word structure revisited 259
  13.5  Conclusion 265
            Practice exercise 265
            Exercises 266
14   Valence-changing morphology 270
  14.1  Meaning-preserving alternations 271
  14.2  Meaning-changing alternations 277
  14.3  Incorporation 280
  14.4  Conclusion 282
            Practice exercises 283
            Exercises 284
15   Allomorphy 288
  15.1  Suppletion 290
  15.2  Morphophonemic changes 292
  15.3  Rules for suppletive allomorphy 296
  15.4  Inflectional classes 297
  15.5  Conclusion 299
            Practice exercises 301
            Exercises 302
16   Non-linear morphology 304
  16.1  Non-linear sequencing of affixes 305
  16.2  Modifications of phonological features 307
  16.3  Copying, deleting, re-ordering, etc. 309
  16.4  Inflectional rules 312
  16.5  Conclusion 313
            Exercises 314
17   Clitics 316
  17.1  What is a “word?” 317
  17.2  Types of clitics 319
  17.3  Clitic pronouns or agreement? 325
  17.4  Conclusion 329
            Practice exercise 329
            Exercises 330
  Appendix: Swahili data for grammar sketch 334
  Glossary 341
  References 352
  Language index 360
  Subject index 362

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