Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- How to use this book
- A note on the theoretical perspective of this book
- 1 Some basic ideas in syntax
- 2 Categories and subcategories
- 3 Constituents, MERGE and trees
- 4 Movement and control
- 5 Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Glossary, symbols and abbreviations
- Appendix 2 Features and their values
- Appendix 3 Rules, constraints and principles
- References
- Index
How to use this book
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- How to use this book
- A note on the theoretical perspective of this book
- 1 Some basic ideas in syntax
- 2 Categories and subcategories
- 3 Constituents, MERGE and trees
- 4 Movement and control
- 5 Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Glossary, symbols and abbreviations
- Appendix 2 Features and their values
- Appendix 3 Rules, constraints and principles
- References
- Index
Summary
This book is different from many other syntax textbooks in that it attempts to teach syntax through discovery rather than through simple presentation. Like other books in the Cambridge Coursebook series, this book is structured as a series of definitions, comments, discussion, and exercises that allow you, the reader, to explore the material on your own. Learning syntactic analysis is best done in consultation with an experienced linguist, so if you are tackling this book on your own, you might contact your local university to see if there is an advanced undergraduate or (post-) graduate student who would be willing to answer those questions that you have.
Unlike other books in the Coursebook series you will need your own notebook to answer many of the questions in this volume. You will be drawing syntactic diagrams, which take up a fair amount of space. In order to reduce production costs, we haven't included that space in this book. All the questions that you should try to answer are marked with a Q followed by a number. The questions are divided into three types.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Modern SyntaxA Coursebook, pp. x - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011