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A complete course in the syntactic structure of English. The edition offers coverage of areas such as appositive constructions, parasitic gaps and expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. It progresses from overview to major constructions and grammar with end-of-chapter exercises.

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Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition Abbreviations and Special Symbols 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the Scheme of Syntactical Analysis Adopted Below 3. Some Tests for Deep and Surface Constituent Structure 4. Some Subject-Changing Transformations 5.Complements 6. Rule Interaction 7. Syntactic Categories 8. Auxiliary Verbs 9. Coordination 10. Surface Combinatoric Rules 11. Anaphora 12. The Structure of Noun Phrases 13. Relative Clauses 14. Interrogative Clauses 15. Principles Restricting and Extending the Application of Transformations 16. Other Types of Nondeclarative Sentences 17. Negation 18. Scope of Quantifiers and Negations 19. Adverbs 20. Comparative Constructions 21. Discourse Syntax 22. Patches and Syntactic Mimicry Selected Wrong Answers to Exercises References Index

The Syntactic Phenomena of English

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226556277, 978-0226556277
      ISBN10: 0226556271
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A complete course in the syntactic structure of English. The edition offers coverage of areas such as appositive constructions, parasitic gaps and expanded coverage of cleft sentences and free relatives. It progresses from overview to major constructions and grammar with end-of-chapter exercises.

      Table of Contents
      Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition Abbreviations and Special Symbols 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the Scheme of Syntactical Analysis Adopted Below 3. Some Tests for Deep and Surface Constituent Structure 4. Some Subject-Changing Transformations 5.Complements 6. Rule Interaction 7. Syntactic Categories 8. Auxiliary Verbs 9. Coordination 10. Surface Combinatoric Rules 11. Anaphora 12. The Structure of Noun Phrases 13. Relative Clauses 14. Interrogative Clauses 15. Principles Restricting and Extending the Application of Transformations 16. Other Types of Nondeclarative Sentences 17. Negation 18. Scope of Quantifiers and Negations 19. Adverbs 20. Comparative Constructions 21. Discourse Syntax 22. Patches and Syntactic Mimicry Selected Wrong Answers to Exercises References Index

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