English Syntax: A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation
Do you find the technical architecture of theoretical syntax intimidating? Are you grappling with a great deal of unfamiliar linguistic examples?

This textbook will introduce you to the main aspects of Minimalist syntax through the use of data from a number of varieties of English. In doing so it will equip you with a firm grounding in tools of syntactic analysis, while demonstrating the potential for variationist linguistics and theoretical syntax to feed into each other. Through examples and exercises, this textbook demonstrates that all varieties of language are rule-based and can be observed and described systematically, regardless of how 'standard' or socially valued they are
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English Syntax: A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation
Do you find the technical architecture of theoretical syntax intimidating? Are you grappling with a great deal of unfamiliar linguistic examples?

This textbook will introduce you to the main aspects of Minimalist syntax through the use of data from a number of varieties of English. In doing so it will equip you with a firm grounding in tools of syntactic analysis, while demonstrating the potential for variationist linguistics and theoretical syntax to feed into each other. Through examples and exercises, this textbook demonstrates that all varieties of language are rule-based and can be observed and described systematically, regardless of how 'standard' or socially valued they are
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English Syntax: A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation

English Syntax: A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation

by Elspeth Edelstein
English Syntax: A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation

English Syntax: A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation

by Elspeth Edelstein

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Do you find the technical architecture of theoretical syntax intimidating? Are you grappling with a great deal of unfamiliar linguistic examples?

This textbook will introduce you to the main aspects of Minimalist syntax through the use of data from a number of varieties of English. In doing so it will equip you with a firm grounding in tools of syntactic analysis, while demonstrating the potential for variationist linguistics and theoretical syntax to feed into each other. Through examples and exercises, this textbook demonstrates that all varieties of language are rule-based and can be observed and described systematically, regardless of how 'standard' or socially valued they are

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474425520
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 02/28/2020
Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elspeth Edelstein is a Lecturer and the Undergraduate Programme Convenor in Language and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1: Got Grammar?
2: Phrase Structure
3: Lexical Verbs
4: Auxiliary Verbs and Functional Structure
5: Embedded Clauses and Questions
6: Negation
7: Non-Finite Complements
8: Nouns and Determiners
9: Adjectives and Adverbs
10: Minimalism and Microvariation
Glossary, Bibliography
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