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Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
Liliane Haegeman
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Description for Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
Hardcover. 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. Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics S. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 188 x 27. Weight in Grams: 880.
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 ... Read more
- Written by an established author with an international reputation.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics S.
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405118521
SKU
V9781405118521
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99-50
About Liliane Haegeman
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 Government and Binding Theory (second edition, Blackwell, 1994) and English Grammar: A Generative Perspective (with Jacqueline Guéron; Blackwell, 1999).
Reviews for Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
"This is a strikingly original book. With her usual flair and a 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, ... Read more