Thinking Syntactically
A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
1. Edition August 2005
400 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.
* Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.
* Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.
* Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.
* Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.
* Written by an established author with an international reputation.
1: Introduction: The Scientific Study of Language.
Discussion.
Exercises.
2: Diagnostics for Syntactic Structure.
Discussion.
Exercises.
3: Lexical Projections and Functional Projections.
Discussion.
Exercises.
4: Refining Structures: From One Subject Position to Many.
Discussion.
Exercises.
5: The Periphery of the Sentence.
Discussion.
Exercises.
Bibliography.
Index.
host of attested examples, Liliane Haegeman has provided a painless
and perceptive introduction to the science of syntax."
--Neil Smith, University College London
"Linguists' partners complain that they pay no attention to what
they say, only to how they say it. Haegeman makes a virtue of this,
shows where it leads and how remarkable the human capacity for
language is once one thinks of it formally. She has a wonderful eye
and many of her examples are drawn from newspapers and
novels."
--David Lightfoot, National Science Foundation,
Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
