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Syntactic Analysis and Description : A Constructional Approach.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Open Linguistics SeriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (386 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441162564
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Syntactic Analysis and DescriptionDDC classification:
  • 415
LOC classification:
  • P291 -- .L63 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Constructions, functions, and classes -- What is syntax? -- The construction: an essential element in syntax -- Functions within constructions -- The manifestation of functions -- Application to basic clausal data -- Orders of functions in transitive clauses -- Summary of notations introduced -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 2 Syntax and morphology: pre-editing syntactic data -- Inflection in English -- Abstracting out morphological details -- Patterns of pre-editing -- Summary of inflectional categories -- Summary of new notations -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 3 Types of phrase constructions -- The noun phrase: a typical endocentric phrase -- Other endocentric phrases -- The problem of the verb phrase -- Exocentric phrases -- Summary of phrasal constituents and symbols -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 4 Concord and government in the phrase -- Simple concord -- Gender concord -- Grammatical government -- Types of phrasal congruence -- Notations for concord and government -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 5 Phrase coordination -- Basic varieties of coordination -- Position of conjunctions -- Formalization of coordination -- Structural types of coordination -- General patterns of coordination -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 6 Types of basic clause constructions -- Verbal clauses and their elements -- Basic clause types in English -- Expressing "being" in different languages -- Non-verbal clauses -- Summary of clausal constituents and symbols -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 7 Congruence and determination in the clause -- Congruence between Subject and Predicator -- Congruence between Predicator and Objects -- Government in the clause -- Determination -- Summary of new notations -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 8 Identification and description of clitics -- What is a clitic? -- Identification by separability.
Identification by comembership -- Identification by differential linkage -- Classification of clitics -- Fitting clitics into syntactic description -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 9 Negation in the clause -- Inflectional negation -- Negation by simple particles -- Discontinuous negation -- Special constituent orders in the negative -- Special relations of government in the negative -- Special auxiliary uses in the negative -- Negative concord and anti-concord -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 10 Varieties of clausal organization: accusative, ergative, and others -- Accusative and ergative perspectives illustrated -- Split ergativity -- Further varieties of organization -- Summary -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 11 Voice and other forms of highlighting in the clause -- Active and passive voices -- Varieties of the passive -- The antipassive -- Highlighting in general -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 12 Sentence constructions -- The rank hierarchy -- A traditional classification -- An alternative traditional classification -- Special sentence types of English -- Summary of sentence structures -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 13 Interrogation in clause and sentence structures -- Basic classification of interrogatives -- Expression of polarity questions -- Varieties of supplement questions -- Confirmatory questions -- Summary -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 14 Subordinate clauses and clausoidal phrases -- English subordinate clauses -- Clausoids in English: infinitive, participial, and gerund phrases -- Clausoids in other European languages -- The non-universality of clausoids -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 15 Syntax and semology -- Examples of semological effects on syntax -- Agnation and semology -- Markedness and semology -- Semological control of syntax -- Classifying semo-syntactic relations -- Exercises -- Terminology.
Appendix: adaptations of the boxed notation -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- References -- Textbooks and other works on syntax -- Sources consulted for language data -- Index of languages -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of names and terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Constructions, functions, and classes -- What is syntax? -- The construction: an essential element in syntax -- Functions within constructions -- The manifestation of functions -- Application to basic clausal data -- Orders of functions in transitive clauses -- Summary of notations introduced -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 2 Syntax and morphology: pre-editing syntactic data -- Inflection in English -- Abstracting out morphological details -- Patterns of pre-editing -- Summary of inflectional categories -- Summary of new notations -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 3 Types of phrase constructions -- The noun phrase: a typical endocentric phrase -- Other endocentric phrases -- The problem of the verb phrase -- Exocentric phrases -- Summary of phrasal constituents and symbols -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 4 Concord and government in the phrase -- Simple concord -- Gender concord -- Grammatical government -- Types of phrasal congruence -- Notations for concord and government -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 5 Phrase coordination -- Basic varieties of coordination -- Position of conjunctions -- Formalization of coordination -- Structural types of coordination -- General patterns of coordination -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 6 Types of basic clause constructions -- Verbal clauses and their elements -- Basic clause types in English -- Expressing "being" in different languages -- Non-verbal clauses -- Summary of clausal constituents and symbols -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 7 Congruence and determination in the clause -- Congruence between Subject and Predicator -- Congruence between Predicator and Objects -- Government in the clause -- Determination -- Summary of new notations -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 8 Identification and description of clitics -- What is a clitic? -- Identification by separability.

Identification by comembership -- Identification by differential linkage -- Classification of clitics -- Fitting clitics into syntactic description -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 9 Negation in the clause -- Inflectional negation -- Negation by simple particles -- Discontinuous negation -- Special constituent orders in the negative -- Special relations of government in the negative -- Special auxiliary uses in the negative -- Negative concord and anti-concord -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 10 Varieties of clausal organization: accusative, ergative, and others -- Accusative and ergative perspectives illustrated -- Split ergativity -- Further varieties of organization -- Summary -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 11 Voice and other forms of highlighting in the clause -- Active and passive voices -- Varieties of the passive -- The antipassive -- Highlighting in general -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 12 Sentence constructions -- The rank hierarchy -- A traditional classification -- An alternative traditional classification -- Special sentence types of English -- Summary of sentence structures -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 13 Interrogation in clause and sentence structures -- Basic classification of interrogatives -- Expression of polarity questions -- Varieties of supplement questions -- Confirmatory questions -- Summary -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 14 Subordinate clauses and clausoidal phrases -- English subordinate clauses -- Clausoids in English: infinitive, participial, and gerund phrases -- Clausoids in other European languages -- The non-universality of clausoids -- Exercises -- Terminology -- 15 Syntax and semology -- Examples of semological effects on syntax -- Agnation and semology -- Markedness and semology -- Semological control of syntax -- Classifying semo-syntactic relations -- Exercises -- Terminology.

Appendix: adaptations of the boxed notation -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- References -- Textbooks and other works on syntax -- Sources consulted for language data -- Index of languages -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of names and terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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