Thinking Syntactically
A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
1. Auflage August 2005
398 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
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.
Thinking Syntactically takes a new approach to teaching introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. The main goal of the book is to create a mindset for scientific thinking and gives students a heightened sensitivity to language that empowers them to go beyond the material taught in class. Though generative in spirit, this textbook does not focus on teaching the details of a specific theoretical approach, but rather enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.The book is structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals. Each step is conceptually and empirically motivated to cultivate the argumentation skills of the reader. Using data drawn from current media sources including newspapers and novels, Liliane Haegeman helps students formulate and test hypotheses.
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.
--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
