Understanding Syntax by Maggie Tallerman - 9781032629551

Understanding SyntaxAuthor(s): Maggie Tallerman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032629551, 978-1032629551\nSynopsis\nAssuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic syntax. Taking a largely theory-neutral and descriptive viewpoint throughout, this book:\n\nintroduces syntactic typology, syntactic description and the major typological categories found in the languages of the world\nclarifies with examples grammatical constructions and relationships between words in a clause, including word classes and their syntactic properties; grammatical relations such as subject and object; case and agreement processes; passives and other valency-changing processes; questions and relative clauses\nfeatures in-text and chapter-end exercises to extend the readers knowledge of syntactic concepts and arg.