Linguistics today (Fontana linguistics)

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Brown, E. K.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Fontana Paperbacks

The study of syntax is fundamental to linguistics and language study, but it is often taught solely within the framework of transformational grammar. This book is unique in several respects: it introduces the basic concepts used in the description of syntax, independently of any single model of grammar. Most grammatical models fail to deal adequately with one aspect of syntax or another, and the authors argue that an understanding of the concepts used in any full description of language is crucial for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of formal grammars. Formal approaches to some of these concepts are critically examined. This book will train students, of either linguistics or language, to understand and make the best use of any grammar they encounter. Secondly, the book deals with the whole of syntax from immediate constituents and relations between sentences. It also examines concepts like subject and object, agent and patient, topic, comment and theme. Thirdly, there is a section on morphology, and a discussion of the relationship between syntax and morphology. As a book which explains, in a lucid and approachable way, why linguists have adopted certain solutions to problems and not others, this will be an invaluable introductory text. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams, and there are sets of exercises for every chapter which can be used in class, or by students working independently. This second edition has been extensively revised to take account of recent developments in syntactic studies.

Syntax: A Linguistics Introduction to Sentence Structure

Miller, James V.

Words, Language & Grammar

Unwin Hyman

The second edition of this invaluable introductory text has been extensively revised to take account of recent developments in syntactic studies. Dealing with the whole range of syntax, this book explains, in a lucid and approachable way, why linguists have adopted certain solutions to problems and not others.

Syntax: A linguistic introduction to sentence structure

Hutchinson

Miller, J.E. (eds.)

Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.

Syntax: Generative Grammar

Humanities Pr

Book is in good condition and cared for in a professional library.

Syntax, generative grammar (Hutchinson university library)

Miller, J.E.

Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated

Willa Cather

Leon, Edel

Biographies & Memoirs

Avon/Books

Rhythm in the Novel

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Examines the literary career of the Midwest editor and novelist

Willa Cather: A Critical Biography

United States

The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but so is all criticism. The artificiality is justified if when one turns back from the criticism to the novels these appear more intelligible and more delightful. That is the test." Applying the test to Dr. Brown's present work, the method is more than justified by the results. they are titled: "Phrase, Character, Incident," "Expanding Symbols," "Interweaving Themes," and "Rhythm in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India."

Rhythm in the Novel (Alexander Lectures)

University of Toronto Press

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