Bøker av Hilda J. Koopman

An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages.

The essays here cover a wide range of topics: the interpretation and distribution of pronouns; ECP effects; specifiers and phrase structure; heads; the role and functioning of head movement; and the architecture of grammar.

aeo Written by twelve linguists all internationally recognized as leaders in their fields of specialization. aeo Exercises and data--analysis problems within and at end of each chapter help students learn what it means to actually do linguistics. aeo Includes the latest developments in theoretical linguistics; for example, Optimality Theory.