English syntax and argumentation
By: Bas Aarts
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Modern linguistics series; Modern linguistics series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780230551206; 9780230551213
Subjects: Persuasion (Rhetoric); English language; Semantics; Syntax
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Function; title: Form: words, word clauses and phrases; title: More on form: clauses and sentences; title: The function: form interface; title: Predicates, arguments and thematic roles; title: Cross-categorial generalisations: x-bar syntax; title: More on clauses; title: Movement; title: Syntactic argumentation; title: Constinuency: movement and substitution; title: Constituency: some additional tests; title: Predicates and arguments revisited; title: Grammatical indeterminacy; title: Case studies.