An Introduction To English Syntax

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION A slim and useful student textbook for EnglishSyntax. Although most of the examples are from English the book introducesgeneral con... » 

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION A slim and useful student textbook for EnglishSyntax. Although most of the examples are from English the book introducesgeneral concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntacticanalysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remainuseful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but sayliterature or EFL teaching. The Years Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook JimMiller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a widerange of university courses in business communication in teaching and inspeech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditionalgrammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years parts ofspeech and how to recognise them constructions and their interrelationshipssubordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types subjects andobjects Agents and Patients and other roles. The book draws out theconnections between syntax and meaning and between syntax and discourse inparticular a new chapter focuses on the analysis of discourse and the finalchapter deals with tense aspect and voice topics which are central to theconstruction of texts and are of major importance in second language learning.They are also areas where meaning and grammar interconnect very closely.Key featuresCoverage of central themes with a wide application outside the study of syntaxExplains basic concepts supported by a glossary of technical termsExercises and sources for further reading provided. «