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Informationen zum Autor Dominique Sportiche is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California! Los Angeles! Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris! and Institut Jean Nicod at the Paris Institut d'Etude de la Cognition. Specializing in theoretical syntax! he has published widely on the syntax and the properties of the syntax/semantics interface of English and French. Hilda Koopman is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California! Los Angeles. Her theoretical interests include theoretical syntax and morphology and comparative syntax. She has published on a wide range of topics covering many diverse languages. Her work is often based on original fieldwork. Edward Stabler is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California! Los Angeles. His specialty is in computational models of human syntactic analysis and learning! and he has published on a wide range of topics in mathematical and computational linguistics. Klappentext Over the past several decades, our knowledge of language and sentence structure has increased at a pace unparalleled in the history of linguistics. An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory provides a general introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Accessible to those with minimal knowledge of current syntactic research, it guides readers through syntactic and morphological structures in a progressive manner. To facilitate comprehension of basic principles and theories, useful 'Practice' boxes are included throughout the text, with more advanced concepts in syntactic theory also highlighted throughout. Comprehensive and authoritative, thisintroduction to syntactic theory takes the mystery out of one of the most crucial aspects of the workings of language - the principles and processes behind the structure of sentences. Additional resources are available online at www.wiley.com/go/syntacticanalysis Zusammenfassung An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 25346595 ...