Syntax: A Generative Introduction
by Andrew Carnie
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Building on the success of the bestselling first edition, the second edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in Principles and Parameters syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions. * Includes new and extended problem sets in every chapter, all of which have been annotated for level and skill type * Features three new chapters on advanced topics including vP shells, show more object shells, control, gapping and ellipsis and an additional chapter on advanced topics in binding * Offers a brief survey of both Lexical-Functional Grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar * Succeeds in strengthening the reader's foundational knowledge, and prepares them for more advanced study * Supported by an instructor's manual and online resources for students and instructors, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/carnie show lessTags
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Clear explanations, interesting examples covering many languages of the world, diagram upon diagram--it's decent. It decently explains the horrible scholastic phenomenon that is generative syntax. Your theory doesn't work? Maybe that's because a noun is a verb! Maybe the word at the end of the sentence is at the beginning of the sentence! Maybe black is white.
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Andrew Carnie is Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Dean of the Graduate College, and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA. He specializes in generative syntactic theory with an emphasis on constituency, VSO languages, copular constructions, and the Celtic Languages. He is the author of numerous publications, including show more Constituent Structure, Modern Syntax, and The Syntax Workbook: A Companion to Carnie's Syntax, Second Edition, and is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Syntax. show less
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