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“robert freidin”

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  • Adventures in English Syntax

    by Robert Freidin ...
    For anyone who wants to become a more effective writer, a more perceptive reader, and a more precise thinker, an understanding of English sentence structure is indispensable. This book shows you how to begin. Using clear and engaging examples from English, it introduces the basic concepts of syntactic structure to readers with no background in linguistics. Starting with simple, familiar phrases, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Syntax

    Basic Concepts and Applications

    by Robert Freidin ...
    Syntax: Basic Concepts and Applications provides a systematic introduction to core topics in syntax, focusing on how the basic concepts apply in the analysis of sentences. Assuming no background in linguistic analysis, the book gives students a working knowledge of syntactic analysis from a minimalist perspective. Step by step it explains the fundamentals of phrase structure, movement and deletion ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Text and Vocabulary

    by Joint Association of Classical Teachers ...
    Series series Reading Greek
    First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume contains a narrative adapted ... Read more

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  • Syntactic Analysis

    The Basics

    by Nicholas Sobin ...
    Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: The Basics focuses on bringing students with little background in linguistics up to speed on how modern syntactic analysis works.A succinct and practical introduction to understanding sentence structure, ideal for students who need to get up to speed on key concepts in the fieldIntroduces readers to the central terms and concepts in ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects

    A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry

    by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. In doing so it presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Topics in Kwa Syntax

    Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, James Essegbey ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific discussions such as serial verb constructions. But as the reader of this book will notice, syntactic topics discussed in the context of Kwa range ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Case

    Its Principles and its Parameters

    by Mark Baker ...
    Series Book 146 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed to work well for languages of all alignment types - accusative, ergative, tripartite, marked nominative, or marked absolutive - this theory has been developed and tested against unrelated languages of each type, and more than twenty non-Indo-European ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Modular Architecture of Grammar

    by Jerrold M. Sadock ...
    Series Book 132 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Modular grammar postulates several autonomous generative systems interacting with one another as opposed to the prevailing theory of transformational grammar where there is a single generative component – the syntax – from which other representations are derived. In this book Jerrold Sadock develops his influential theory of grammar, formalizing several generative modules that independently ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Contrastiveness in Information Structure, Alternatives and Scalar Implicatures

    Edited by Manfred Krifka, Chungmin Lee, Ferenc Kiefer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts. The 19 contributions provide insights on the interplay between semantics and pragmatics. The volume’s reach is ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Evidence for Multiattachment in K'ekchi Mayan

    by Ava Berinstein ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    This study, first published in 1985, analyses aspects of the syntax of K’ekchi, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. Working in the framework of Relational Grammar, the author finds evidence for the constructions of Passive, Antipassive and 2-3 Retreat and provides formulations for the principles of Personal Agreement, Number Agreement, Nominal Case, and Aspect Marking. This title will be of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Noun Phrases and Nominalizations

    The Syntax of DPs

    by T. Siloni ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical study of nominal expressions which covers central aspects of their syntax that have not been approached with concurrent tools in recent years. The study examines the functional structure, offers a structural definition of syntactic nominalization, and carefully draws the border line between the lexical nominalizing mechanism and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Word Meaning and Belief

    by S.G. Pulman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
    First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is ... Read more

    $38.99 USD