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This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions.

  • Walks the student through complicated analyses, pointing out common mistakes and how to avoid them
  • Includes extensive foreign language examples and exercises
  • Contains exercises designed both to cement foundational knowledge and to take the student to the next level
  • Accompanied by a supplementary website with sample problems, chapter summaries and relevant links: http: //www.blackwellpublishing.com/carnie

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Although we use it every day, and although we all have strong opinions about its proper form and appropriate use, we rarely stop to think about the wonder of language.

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  • Title Syntax: A Generative Introduction
  • Author Andrew Carnie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.
  • Publication date February 1, 2002
  • ISBN 9780631225447 / 0631225447
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.67 x 6.76 x 1.15 in (24.56 x 17.17 x 2.92 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax, Generative grammar
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001043226
  • Dewey Decimal Code 415

About the author

Andrew Carnie is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is co-moderator, with Helen Dry and Anthony Aristar, of the Linguist List, and is co-editor, with Eithne Guilfoyle, of The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages (2000).

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