English syntax in three dimensions : history - synchrony - diachrony /

English syntax in three dimensions : history - synchrony - diachrony /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Trips, Carola, author.
Imprint:	Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	De Gruyter Mouton Textbook De Gruyter Mouton textbook.
Subject:	English language -- Syntax -- Textbooks. English language -- Syntax. Electronic books. Textbooks.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11244418

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ISBN:	9783110290097 311029009X 9783110395143 3110395142 3110289849 9783110289848 9783110289848 3110289849
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Textbook. Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book offers an introduction to syntax in three dimensions: part I deals with the history of grammatical theory, part II with synchronic aspects of Present-Day English, and part III with diachronic aspects of English. In this way the field of syntax is seen from a more general perspective than in other works presently available.
Other form:	Print version: Trips, Carola. English syntax in three dimensions 9783110289848
Standard no.:	10.1515/9783110290097 9783110289848

Table of Contents:

Part I: The history of grammar
Introduction
The Greeks and Romans and the first grammatical theory
The Middle Ages
Grammar in the Renaissance and the first grammars of English
Modern linguistics and structuralism
Chomsky and constituency grammars
Part II: Synchronic analysis of English syntax
Introduction
Sentence structure of Present-Day English and New High German
Dependency relations and linguistic universals
Syntactic variation
Comparative syntax from a synchronic perspective
Movement and its application to the syntax of English
Part III: Diachronic analysis of English syntax
Introduction
Sentence structure of Early English
Dependency relations in Early English
Syntactic variation in Early English
Comparative syntax from a diachronic perspective
Syntactic movement in the history of English
Epilogue.