Synopses & Reviews
Clearly organized and accessible, this comprehensive textbook provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure.
Review
"...it is a great success. The book is well organised and clearly written. It gives both general knowledge and a bird-eye view of the current syntactic research; it also addresses many particular syntactic problems.... VV's Introduction is an excellent guide for any student of syntax, including the beginners, but can also be used by syntacticians as a very convenient conspectus. It illustrates the main aspects of syntactic analysis with data from typologically diverse languages; the clear presentation helps a lot in understanding the most complicated syntactic problems. It is highly recommended as a textbook for any student in linguistics, and as a summary of achievements, trends, and problems in modern syntactic theory." Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-233) and indexes.
Table of Contents
1. Syntax, lexical categories and morphology; 2. Grammatical relations; 3. Dependency relations; 4. Constituent structure; 5. Grammar and lexicon; 6. Theories of syntax.