Thinking Syntactically A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis [Paperback]

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.

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• 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.

Preface.

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.

Liliane Haegeman is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lille and a member of the CNRS research group SILEX. Her numerous works include Introduction to Governló‡