Andrew Radford's latest textbook provides a concise, accessible introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntactic theory, Radford leads students through a diverse range of topics in English syntax. Each chapter contains a workbook section, in which students are encouraged to make their own analysis of English phrases and sentences through exercises, model answers, and "helpful hints". There is also an extensive glossary of terms.
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Andrew Radford's latest textbook, Minimalist Syntax and the Syntax of English, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntactic theory, Radford takes students through a diverse range of topics in English syntax. Each chapter contains a workbook section, in which students are encouraged to make their own analyses of English phrases and sentences through exercises, model answers, and 'helpful hints'. There is also an extensive glossary of terms.
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Andrew Radford is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex.
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A Solid & Thorough Treatment of Chomskian Minimalist Syntax,
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I first encountered Radford's handling of Minimalist Syntax (in an earlier and abbreviated version of this 2004 text) as a student in a Syntax class at ASU and thought it was great then. Since then, i've acquired and read through many of Chomsky's original works, including 'The Minimalist Program' (from the '90s), which is quite dense and not very friendly to the non-PhD candidate. (Chomsky's more recent 'Language and Mind' and 'On Nature and Language' are much more accesible.) Radford's 2004 treatment of Minimalist Syntax is much more accessible than and not nearly so dense (being 100 pages longer) & obscure as Chomsky's own. Furthermore, i feek Radford's is more useful in and relevant to contemporary linguistics.
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In broad terms, this book is concerned with aspects of grammar. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
null spellout, null complementiser, declarative complementiser, bracketed complement clause, complementiser marking, transitive complementiser, causative light verb, arisen several complications, bare relative clauses, null pro subject, infinitival complementiser, bracketed relative clause, abstract light verb, defective clauses, imperative null subjects, infinitival tense particle, raising predicates like seem, interpretation paraphraseable, overt spellout, unattached affix, upset several people, following noun expression, bare infinitive clauses, overt complementiser, assigns null case Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Affix Hopping, Universal Grammar, Elizabethan English, Belfast English, Phase Impenetrability Condition, Earliness Principle, Attract Closest Principle, Head-Position Parameter, Standard English, Focus Phrase, Force Phrase, Topic Phrase, Null-Subject Parameter, Subject Hypothesis, Remerger Constraint, All's Well That Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, Constituent Structure Constraint, Functional Head Constraint, Head Movement Constraint, Headedness Principle, Alison Henry, Senator Megabucks, Benny's Bunny Bar, Binarity Principle New!
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In broad terms, this book is concerned with aspects of grammar. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
null spellout, null complementiser, declarative complementiser, bracketed complement clause, complementiser marking, transitive complementiser, causative light verb, arisen several complications, bare relative clauses, null pro subject, infinitival complementiser, bracketed relative clause, abstract light verb, defective clauses, imperative null subjects, infinitival tense particle, raising predicates like seem, interpretation paraphraseable, overt spellout, unattached affix, upset several people, following noun expression, bare infinitive clauses, overt complementiser, assigns null case Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Affix Hopping, Universal Grammar, Elizabethan English, Belfast English, Phase Impenetrability Condition, Earliness Principle, Attract Closest Principle, Head-Position Parameter, Standard English, Focus Phrase, Force Phrase, Topic Phrase, Null-Subject Parameter, Subject Hypothesis, Remerger Constraint, All's Well That Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, Constituent Structure Constraint, Functional Head Constraint, Head Movement Constraint, Headedness Principle, Alison Henry, Senator Megabucks, Benny's Bunny Bar, Binarity Principle New!
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- The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky on 5 pages
- Verb Movement by David Lightfoot in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 170, and page 333
- Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction by Andrew Radford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford World's Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 180, and page 181
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- Agreement (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Greville G. Corbett in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Theories of Case (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Miriam Butt in Front Matter
- Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by William Croft in Front Matter
- Language, Frogs and Savants: More Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics (Reading the Novel) by Neil Smith in Back Matter
- Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals by Neil Smith in Back Matter
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