LINGUIST List 3.704

Fri 18 Sep 1992

Sum: Syntax Course

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1. , summary of responses: 2nd year syntax

first of all, thanks to everyone who responded to our query. the
results are

2 votes for brown & miller's syntax. the first edition was described
as "quite obsolete, somewhat parochial, and notationally garbled",
but with the advantages of including morphology, grammatically
relevant semantics, and data from exotic languages. it's now in it's
second edition, which may or may not be improved.

2 votes for noel burton-roberts' analyzing sentences (longman)

1 vote for h.jackson's discovering grammar (pergamon press)

1 vote for robert borsley's syntactic theory: a unified approach
(edward arnold australia, 80 waverly rd, caulfield east, victoria
3145)

1 vote for shopen's 2 volume set - languages and their speakers; and
languages and their statuses, plus readings from comrie's language
universals and linguistic typology and some readings from shopen's 3
volume set - syntactic theory and grammatical description
(note: here we use comrie and the shopen 3 volume for our third
year, advanced syntax. second year students have found both to be
"too hard to understand")

1 vote for a not yet published theory neutral syntax text currently
being written by marilyn silva (not on email) at the dept. of human
development, cal state hayward, hayward ca 94544

there were also some strictly english grammar suggestions (not
really appropriate to the kind of course we do here, which is very
much oriented towards non-english data, but might be just what
someone else out there is looking for).

1 vote for jeff kaplan's english grammar: facts & principles
(prentice hall)

1 vote for klammer & schulz' analyzing english grammar (allyn &
bacon)

1 vote for mccawley's 2 volume syntactic phenomena of english
(chicago)

1 vote for george curme's 1947 english grammar (barnes & noble)

again, thanks to everyone who responded. we haven't actually checked
out any of the suggestions yet, so can't offer any additional
evaluation.