A Critical Introduction to Syntax (Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Linguistics) - Softcover

Miller, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826497047 ISBN 13: 9780826497048

Publisher: Continuum, 2011

Synopsis

This book introduces major areas of debate within the field of syntax: constructions, grammar and semantics, configurationality, usage-based grammar, complexity, language acquisition. It highlights the application of the same concepts across different models of grammar. Real examples from spoken and written language and standard and non-standard language demonstrate how difficult it is to apply the concept of grammaticality and to provide reliable analyses, especially for spoken language.

Comprehensive, accessible and challenging, this book is essential reading for students taking introductory courses in syntax and syntactic theory, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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About the Authors

Jim Miller is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh (formerly Professor of Linguistics and Spoken Language at Edinburgh and Professor of Cognitive Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand).

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK. His monographs include Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust (2010), Metaphor and Political Discourse (2004) and War against the Public: The Language of Terrorism (1996, in German).

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826497047
• ISBN 13: 9780826497048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288