Syntactic Analysis and Description

by David Lockwood and David G. Lockwood

Book Overview

This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students about the varieties of syntactic phenomena in different languages and a method of analyzing and describing them. The method is based on the concept of the syntactic construction, which is shared by various views of language structure. In this particular presentation, a construction is characterized as a combination of obligatory and optional functions, and each of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826455220
• ISBN13: 9780826455222
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.4"