Analysing English Sentence Structure - An Intermediate Course in Syntax

"Analysing English Sentence Structure is an intermediate coursebook using illustrative data drawn from a wide range of varieties and registers of English. Richly supported with exercises, hints and chapter summaries, and accompanied with free online Answerbooks for students and instructors, this text is an ideal learning and teaching tool"--

List of contents

Preface; 1. Background; 2. A-Movement; 3. Agreement; 4. The clause periphery; 5. More peripheral constituents; 6. The subperiphery; 7. Abbreviated registers; Glossary; Abbreviations.

About the author

Andrew Radford is Emeritus Professor at the University of Essex. He has written a number of popular textbooks, including Transformational Grammar (1988) and Minimalist Syntax (2004), and research monographs on Colloquial English (2018) and Relative Clauses (2019).

Summary

Analysing English Sentence Structure is an intermediate coursebook using illustrative data drawn from a wide range of varieties and registers of English. Richly supported with exercises, hints and chapter summaries, and accompanied with free online Answerbooks for students and instructors, this text is an ideal learning and teaching tool.

Foreword

An intermediate textbook in English syntax and contemporary syntactic theory, full of helpful features for students and instructors alike.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Radford, Andrew (University of Essex) Radford, Radford Andrew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009322935
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932293-5
• No. of pages: 584
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Designed for home learning, Textbook, coursework, For home learning: intermediary levels