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An Introduction to English Syntax
This spectacular resource for pupils offers a step-by-step, sensible introduction to British syntax and syntactic principles, as produced by Chomsky in the last 15 years. Assuming little if any prior history in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core ideas and how they might be used to identify various areas of English syntax. This is a great abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Analysing English Paragraphs (also posted by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcome as a useful introduction to current syntactic theory. andrew radford is Teacher & Mind of the Division of Dialect and Linguistics at the School of Essex. His latest publications contain Minimalist Format: Exploring the Structure of The english language (Cambridge, 2004) and The english language Syntax: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2004).
An Introduction to English
Sentence Structure
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ANDREW RADFORD
School of Essex
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Contents
Preface
1 Grammar
1 . one particular
1 . 2
1 . three or more
1 . 5
1 . a few
1 . six
1 . six
1 . almost 8
1 . being unfaithful
Overview
Traditional grammar: Groups and functions
Universal Grammar
The Language Faculty
Principles of Universal Sentence structure
Parameters
Parameter-setting
Summary
Bibliographical background
Workbook section
2 Structure
2 . 1
2 . 2
installment payments on your 3
2 . 4
2 . 5
2 . 6
2 . 7
installment payments on your 8
2 . 9
2 . 10
Overview
Phrases
Clauses
Clauses made up of complementisers
Screening structure
Structural relations as well as the syntax of polarity products
The c-command condition about binding
Uncovered phrase structure
Summary
Bibliographical background
Workbook section
3 Null matters
3. you
3. a couple of
3. 3
3. 5
3. 5
3. 6th
3. six
3. eight
3. being unfaithful
3. 10
Overview
Null subjects
Null auxiliaries
Null T in finite condition
Null To in infinitive clauses
Null C in finite condition
Null C in infinitive clauses
Substandard clauses
Null determiners and quantifiers
Overview
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you
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twenty six
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44
forty-nine
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fifth there’s 89
94
ninety six
101
one zero five
108
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v
ni
contents
several. 11
Bibliographical background
Workbook section
four Head movement
4. 1
4. a couple of
4. 3
4. some
4. 5
4. six
4. 7
4. 8
4. being unfaithful
4. 15
Overview
T-to-C movement
Motion as copying and removal
V-to-T motion
Head movement
Auxiliary Bringing up
Another take a look at negation
do -support
Summary
Bibliographical backdrop
Workbook section
5 Wh-movement
5. one particular
5. two
5. three or more
5. some
5. a few
5. 6
5. six
5. almost 8
5. being unfaithful
5. 10
Overview
Wh-questions
Wh-movement as copying and deletion
Driving wh-movement and auxiliary inversion
Pied-piping of material in the domain name of a wh-word
Pied-piping of any superordinate preposition
Long-distance wh-movement
Multiple wh-questions
Summary
Bibliographical background
Workbook section
six A-movement
six. 1
6th. 2
6. 3
6. 4
6th. 5
six. 6
six. 7
6. 8
six. 9
6th. 10
6. 11
Summary
Subjects in Belfast British
Idioms
Debate...
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