Meaningful Arrangement: Exploring the Syntactic Description of Texts (FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS)
William McDonald
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Paperback. Problematises the process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. This work brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation to each other. It concentrates on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis. Series: Functional Linguistics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
This book takes apart and problematises the whole process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. It brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation to each other. Part 1, Processing the text, concentrates on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis. Since the data needs to be mediated through the processing of the text, the nature of that processing and its effects on subsequent analysis need to be made explicit. Part 2, Analysing the clause, introduces the relevant syntactic phenomena and ... Read more
This book takes apart and problematises the whole process of identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. It brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in relation to each other. Part 1, Processing the text, concentrates on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis. Since the data needs to be mediated through the processing of the text, the nature of that processing and its effects on subsequent analysis need to be made explicit. Part 2, Analysing the clause, introduces the relevant syntactic phenomena and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Condition
New
Series
Functional Linguistics
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845531485
SKU
V9781845531485
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About William McDonald
Edward McDonald is Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Auckland.
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