Full Description
Aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this work covers the varieties of syntactic phenomena in different languages and a method of analyzing and describing them. The method is based on the concept of the syntactic construction, which is shared by various views of language structure. In this particular presentation, a construction is characterized as a combination of obligatory and optional functions, and each of these functions is related to a class of manifestations. Syntax as a whole is then seen as interrelating constructions on the ranks (size-levels) of the phrase, clause, and sentence. Besides the essential features of phrase, clause, and sentence structures, there are chapters devoted to special topics such as clitics, negation, clausal organization, and voice and related devices.
Contents
1. Constructions, Functions, and Classes; 2. Syntax and Morphology: Preediting Syntactic Data; 3. Types of Phrase Constructions; 4. Concord and Government in the Phrase; 5. Phrase Coordination; 6. Types of Basic Clause Constructions; 7. Congruence and Determination in the Clause; 8. Identification and Description of Clitics; 9. Negation in the Clause; 10. Varieties of Clausal Organization: Accusative, Ergative, and Others; 11. Voice and other Forms of Highlighting in the Clause; 12. Sentence Constructions; 13. Interrogation in Clause and Sentence Structures; 14. Subordinate Clauses and Clausoidal Phrases; 15. Syntax and Semology.