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Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics: Syntactic Analysis: An HPSG-based Approach
Robert D. Levine
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Description for Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics: Syntactic Analysis: An HPSG-based Approach
hardcover. An advanced-level introductory textbook taking a critical, practical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures. Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFGR; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 183 x 255 x 23. Weight in Grams: 756.
In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic data involve a certain specific kind of reasoning, where various alternatives are entertained and modified in light of progressively broader empirical coverage. Rather than focus on transmitting the details of complex theoretical superstructures, this textbook takes a practical, analytical approach, starting from a small set of powerful analytic tools, applied first to simple phenomena and then to the passive, complement and raising/control constructions. The analytic tools are then applied to unbounded dependencies, via detailed argumentation. What emerges is ... Read more
In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic data involve a certain specific kind of reasoning, where various alternatives are entertained and modified in light of progressively broader empirical coverage. Rather than focus on transmitting the details of complex theoretical superstructures, this textbook takes a practical, analytical approach, starting from a small set of powerful analytic tools, applied first to simple phenomena and then to the passive, complement and raising/control constructions. The analytic tools are then applied to unbounded dependencies, via detailed argumentation. What emerges is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
Condition
New
Weight
756g
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107018884
SKU
V9781107018884
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About Robert D. Levine
Robert D. Levine is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. He is the co-author of The Unity of Unbounded Dependency Constructions (with Thomas E. Hukari, 2015), and the editor of Formal Grammar (1992) and Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure Grammar (with Georgia M. Green, Cambridge, 2010). He has also published many articles in journals such as Natural Language and ... Read more
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