LINGUIST List 13.175

Tue Jan 22 2002

Books: Syntax

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Christine Sosa, Syntax: Practical Guide to Syntactic Analysis by Green & Morgan

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of:

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS, 2ND EDITION: 
Georgia M. Green and Jerry L. Morgan (University of Illinois) ;
paper ISBN: 1-57586-348-0, $22.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-349-9, $62.00, 
207 pages. 
CSLI Publications 2001. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , 
email: pubscsli.stanford.edu.

To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call
their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or
order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature
to locate the book, then order).

Book description:

The revised and expanded second edition of the Practical Guide to
Syntactic Analysis is an indispensable resource for students and
practitioners of syntax at all levels. The new edition adds a
reference guide to over 60 grammatical phenomena that every
syntactician should be familiar with.

Although not a textbook, it complements any course in syntax by
covering matters that textbooks and instructors do not normally
explain: the seductive metaphors of generative grammar; the character
of linguistic argumentation; theory-independent guidance for refining
and presenting analyses; and a capsule sketch of the evolution of
syntactic theory into its current directions. As a reference book, the
sections are relatively independent, and may be consulted in any
order.