Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.
Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing them to one particular version of syntactic theory.
Structured around a wide range of exercises that use clear and compelling logic to build arguments and lead up to theoretical proposals.
Data drawn from current media sources, including newspapers, books, and television programs, to help students formulate and test hypotheses.
Generative in spirit, but does not focus on specific theoretical approaches but enables students to understand and evaluate different approaches more easily.
Written by an established author with an international reputation.
Preface and Acknowledgments vi
1 Introduction: The Scientific Study of Language 1
Discussion 1
Exercises 47
2 Diagnostics for Syntactic Structure 65
Discussion 65
Exercises 123
3 Lexical Projections and Functional Projections 155
Discussion 155
Exercises 210
4 Refining Structures: From One Subject Position to Many 237
Discussion 237
Exercises 268
5 The Periphery of the Sentence 305
Discussion 305
Exercises 354
Bibliography 370
Index 381
