English Syntax: An Introduction
Published 1 January 2008
Jong‐Bok Kim, Peter Sells
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Abstract
Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to syntax for students with no prior knowledge of grammar or syntactic analysis. English Syntax aims to help students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to further explore the patterns of English, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis for a variety of data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, wh-questions, relative clauses, extrapolation, and clefts.
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