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The Syntax Workbook Andrew Carnie

The Syntax Workbook By Andrew Carnie

The Syntax Workbook by Andrew Carnie


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The Syntax Workbook was written as a response to the students and instructors who, over the years, have requested more problem sets that give greater experience in analyzing syntactic structure.

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The Syntax Workbook: A Companion to Carnie's Syntax by Andrew Carnie

The Syntax Workbook was written as a response to the students and instructors who, over the years, have requested more problem sets that give greater experience in analyzing syntactic structure. Aligned chapter-by-chapter with Carnie s bestselling textbook, this workbook provides over 120 new exercises on all of the major topics in generative syntax. * An all-new workbook to accompany the bestselling syntax textbook, Syntax: A Generative Introduction, which answers the need for a practical text in this field * Features over 120 problem sets with answers, designed to give students greater experience of analyzing syntactic structure * Exercises and topics covered includes phrase structure, the lexicon, Case theory, ellipsis, auxiliaries, movement, covert movement, locality conditions, VP shells, and control * Supported by expanded online

About Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director in the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. He specializes in generative syntactic theory with an emphasis on constituency, VSO languages, copular constructions and Celtic languages. He is the author of numerous other publications, including Irish Nouns (2008), Constituent Structure (2010), Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics (2011), Modern Syntax (2011), and Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Third Edition (2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Welcome 1 Part 1 Preliminaries 3 1 Generative Grammar 5 2 Parts of Speech 13 3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 20 4 Structural Relations 39 5 Binding Theory 46 Part 2 The Base 51 6 X-bar Theory 53 7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 72 8 Constraining X-bar Theory: Theta Theory 84 9 Auxiliaries and Functional Categories 93 Part 3 Movement 107 10 Head-to-Head Movement 109 11 DP Movement 117 12 Wh -movement and Locality Constraints 127 13 A Unified Theory of Movement 145 Part 4 Advanced Topics 149 14 Expanded VPs 151 15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 157 16 Ellipsis 169 17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 174 18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-configurationality 177 References 180 Index 182

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CIN1118347544G
9781118347546
1118347544
The Syntax Workbook: A Companion to Carnie's Syntax by Andrew Carnie
Used - Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
20121102
192
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