{"product_id":"meaningful-arrangement-exploring-the-syntactic-description-of-texts-9781845531478","title":"Meaningful Arrangement: Exploring the Syntactic Description of Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book takes apart and problematises the whole process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. It brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation to each other. Part 1, Processing the text, concentrates on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis. Since the data needs to be mediated through the processing of the text, the nature of that processing and its effects on subsequent analysis need to be made explicit. Part 2, Analysing the clause, introduces the relevant syntactic phenomena and the sorts of concepts normally used to explain them. It shows how many of the assumptions of traditional syntactic analysis derive from the languages which form the basis of the European tradition, and that different languages require the so-called \"basic categories\" of syntactic analysis to be rethought. Part 3, Theorising syntax, sketches the range of syntactic theories available for the \"consumer\". It gives a sense of developments in the field over the last 50 years not just in terms of the usual \"schools\", but by picking up on concepts such as the key complementarity between syntagmatic and paradigmatic to characterise the emphases and biases of different theories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Part I: Processing the Text  1. Meaning and Structure  2. Processing the Text  3. Linear Sequence and Structural Order  4. Identifying Syntactic Units  5. Bracketing and Labeling  Part 2: Analysing the Clause  6. Constituency and Dependency  7. Identifying Clause Functions  8. Analysing Function Structures  9. Words, Groups and Phrases  10. Combining Clauses  11. Information Flow  12. Full Words and Empty Words  Part 3: Theorising Syntax  13. Delimiting Syntax  14. Theorising Syntactic Relations (i): case  15. Theorising Syntactic Relations (ii): transitivity  16. Modelling Syntactic Patterning (i): syntagmatic approaches  17. Modelling Syntactic Patterning (ii): paradigmatic approaches  18. 'Doing Syntax:' aims and applications  Afterword","brand":"Equinox Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742777377111,"sku":"9781845531478","price":67.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845531478.jpg?v=1758386508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meaningful-arrangement-exploring-the-syntactic-description-of-texts-9781845531478","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}