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Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English First Edition
by Scott Soames
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Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (SASE) presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. Beautifully and lucidly written, it is an invaluable resource for working linguists as well as a pedagogical tool of unequaled depth and breadth.
The chief focus of the book is syntactic argumentation. Beginning with the fundamentals of generative syntax, it proceeds by a series of gradually unfolding arguments to analyses of some of the most sophisticated proposals. It includes a wide variety of problems that guide the reader in constructing arguments deciding between alternative analyses of syntactic constructions and alternative theoretical formulations. Someone who has worked through the problems and arguments in this book will be able to apply the skills in argumentation it develops to novel issues in syntax.
While teaching syntactic argumentation, SASE covers the major empirical results of generative syntax. Its contents include:
1) Transformations in single-clause sentences
2) Complementation and multi-clause transformations
3) Universal principles governing rule interaction: the cycle and strict cyclicity
4) Movement rules
5) Ross's constraints
6) Pronominal reference and anaphora
SASE is an important book for several different audiences:
1) For students, it is an introduction to syntax that teaches argumentation as well as a wide range of empirical results in the field.
2) For linguists, it is a sourcebook of classical analyses and arguments, with some new arguments bearing on classical issues.
3) For scholars, teachers, and students in related fields, it is a comprehensive guide to the major empirical and theoretical developments in generative syntax. SASE contains enough material for a two-semester or three-quarler sequence in syntax. Because it assumes no previous background, it can be used as the main text in an introduction to syntax. Since it covers a wide range of material not available in other texts, it is also suitable for intermediate and advanced syntax courses and as a supplementary source in more specialized courses and courses in other disciplines.
A storehouse of classical and original arguments, SASE will prove to be of lasting value to the teacher, the student, and researchers in both linguistics and related fields.
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- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Bib2020LJ010061
- Title
- Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English First Edition
- Author
- Scott Soames
- Format/Binding
- Good
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520038339
- ISBN 13
- 9780520038332
- Publisher
- University of California Press; First edition (July 25, 1979)
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- July 25, 1979
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