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This is a textbook of a fundamental kind, designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of syntax. Professor Matthews does not expound the model of any one theoretical school; nor does he attempt a straightforward synthesis of already published work. He believes that students have much to gain from the descriptive traditions of individual languages as well as from theorists. His approach is therefore thematic, dealing with the nature of syntactic relations and all the main types of construction (predication, attribution, coordination etc.). There is much that is original, and every chapter manifests Professor Matthews' characteristic good sense and scholarly discernment. Students will find this volume a challenging one, for Professor Matthews draws attention to the weakness of much current syntactic theory and, in particular, considers the problem of indeterminacy, which theorists have not been able to treat in any systematic way. However the exposition is always lucid and helpfully exemplified, mainly by English. Each chapter ends with a detailed bibliographical survey, which includes notes on terminology and other points of difficulty. Syntax clearly bridges the gap between the teaching of English grammar and that of more theoretical models. Students of English language and linguistics generally will find it a textbook of lasting value.

English language --- -Syntax --- Grammar --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Anglais (Langue) --- Syntaxe --- Germanic languages --- English language - Syntax

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English language --- Grammar --- Morphology --- Syntax --- -English language --- -Germanic languages --- Morphology. --- Syntax. --- -Morphology --- Germanic languages --- English language - Morphology --- English language - Syntax

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This book explores noun phrase complexity in English, showing that it is best accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its length and its type of postmodifier(s). The study is methodologically unique in that it combines univariate and multivariate analyses in an investigation of four different syntactic variables. Drawing on more than three billion words of British and American data, Eva Berlage shows that the length and the structure of the NPs, along with language-external factors such as the regional variety of English, work as powerful determinants of the variation. On a theoretical level, the book reveals that the structural complexity of NPs cannot be sufficiently captured by (phrasal) node counts but that we need to incorporate the degree to which NPs are sentential. The book is designed for researchers and students interested in syntax, language variation, sociolinguistics, structural complexity and the history of English.

English language --- Noun phrase. --- Syntax. --- Complex nominals --- Phrasal noun --- Subject --- Germanic languages --- English language - Noun phrase --- English language - Syntax

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English language --- Syntax --- Grammar, Historical --- 802.0 --- 802.0 Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- English language - Syntax --- English language - Grammar, Historical

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English language --- Communication skills (Elementary education) --- Study and teaching (Elementary) --- Syntax --- Study and teaching (Elementary). --- Syntax. --- Germanic languages --- English language - Study and teaching (Elementary) --- English language - Syntax