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Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Introducing Linguistics)

Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Introducing Linguistics)

by Andrew Carnie

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... (more)

Basics of New Testament Syntax, The

by Daniel B. Wallace

An abridgment of the award-winning standard reference grammar of New Testament Greek, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, for use in intermediate Greek courses.

Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics

by Daniel B. Wallace

This Greek grammar text integrates the technical requirements for proper Greek interpretation with the actual interests and needs of Bible Students. It is the first textbook to systematically link syntax and exegesis of the New Testament for second-year Greek students.

Understanding Minimalism (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Understanding Minimalism (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

by Norbert Hornstein

Minimalist models of grammar are developed logically in this volume and the ways in which they contrast with GB analysis are clearly explained. Spanning a decade of minimalist thinking, the textbook will enable students to better understand the questions and problems that minimalism invites, and to master the techniques of minimalist analysis. Over 100 exercises are provided, encouraging students to put their new... (more)

Linguistics

by Jean Aitchison

Teach Yourself Linguistics is a straightforward introduction to linguistics, the systematic study that seeks to answer two fundamental questions: "What is language?" and "How does language work?" This book outlines the scope of linguistics, explaining the basic concepts and essential terminology. It discusses sound patterning, syntax, and meaning, as well as the rapidly growing areas of pragmatics,... (more)

The locative syntax of experiencers

by Idan Landau

Experiencers—grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in certain psychological states—are grammatically special. As objects ('John scared Mary' ; 'loud music annoy me '), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique arguments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects. In The... (more)

Simpler Syntax

by Peter W. Culicover

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of... (more)

Biblical Greek Exegesis

by George H. Guthrie, J. Scott Duvall

This intermediate / advanced text and workbook teaches syntax as well as exegesis by means of a modified inductive approach.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

by Bill Bryson

One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has... (more)

Mother Tongue : The English Language

by Bill Bryson

How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our dictionary? In this revealing and often hilarious book, Bill Bryson examines the mother tongue and explores the countless varieties of English and the perils of marketing... (more)

An Introduction To Language, 6e

by Nina M. Hyams, Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman

AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction, including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and linguistics. All chapters in this best-seller have been revised to reflect recent discoveries and new understanding of linguistics and languages.

Idioms of the Greek New Testament (Biblical Languages: Greek)

Idioms of the Greek New Testament (Biblical Languages: Greek)

by Stanley E. Porter

This Greek grammar, newly revised and reset for the second edition, can be used profitably in three ways: as an instrucitve handbook, as an intermediate level textbooks and as a basic reference work to the Greek of the New Testament. Students needing a tool to guide them from elementary textbooks to fully fledged reference grammars will welcome Idioms of the Greek New Testament. The major topics of Greek grammar... (more)

Syntax Volume 1Talmy Givon

Syntax Volume 1

by Talmy Givon

Syntax Volume 2Talmy Givon

Syntax Volume 2

by Talmy Givon

Its Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek

Its Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek

by David Alan Black

An easy-to-understand and humorous guide to Greek grammar by a topflight scholar. Designed for students in their second year of Greek study.

Understanding Syntax (Understanding Language)

Understanding Syntax (Understanding Language)

by Maggie Tallerman

This text provides a complete introduction to the syntax of human languages. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the book discusses and illustrates all of the major terms and concepts essential to the study of sentence structure. While drawing initial illustrations primarily from English, the book presents extensive additional material from several dozen other languages. Written in an accessible style with... (more)

Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims (Oxford Linguistics)

Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims (Oxford Linguistics)

by Cedric Boeckx

Boeckx examines the foundations and explains the underlying philosophy of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the most radical version to date of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language. He exemplifies its methods, considers the significance of its results, and explores its roots and antecedents. He disentangles and clarifies current debates and shows how the Minimalist Program lies at the... (more)

Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

by P. H. Matthews

Accounts of syntax are usually based on two assumptions: firstly, that a sentence comprises a hierarchy of phrases, forming a 'tree' structure; and secondly, that phrases have 'heads', on which subordinate units depend. These fundamental assumptions are questioned in this critical survey, which argues that neither concept is important as is claimed, and that syntactic relations are in fact far more varied. Drawing... (more)

Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, No 1)

Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, No 1)

by Liliane M. V. Haegeman

Since its first publication in 1991 Liliane Haegeman's Introduction to Government and Binding Theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. This new edition has been extensively updated throughout. Major structural changes include new chapters on Functional Heads and Head Movement and on Relativized Minimality. Discussions of a... (more)

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

by Liliane M. V. Haegeman

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory. Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build... (more)

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by Andrew Carnie

by Daniel B. Wallace

by Daniel B. Wallace

by Norbert Hornstein

by Jean Aitchison

by Idan Landau

by Peter W. Culicover

by George H. Guthrie, J. Scott Duvall

A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

by Bill Bryson

by Bill Bryson

by Nina M. Hyams, Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman

by Stanley E. Porter

by Talmy Givon

by Talmy Givon

by David Alan Black

by Maggie Tallerman

by Cedric Boeckx

by P. H. Matthews

by Liliane M. V. Haegeman

by Liliane M. V. Haegeman