Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function (Series 3 of Western Linguistics)

Author: Robert D. Van Valin,
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Publish Date: 2002-01-18
Features: This book is suitable for readers interested in syntactic theory and who wish to further improve their understanding. The author successfully combines structure, meaning, and function to present the arguments. The material of this book is global, drawing rich and diverse grammatical phenomena from various languages around the world, reminding us of the various types of problems that syntactic theory should address. To help readers enhance their ability to analyze data from various languages in depth, the author has designed sufficient thought questions at the end of each chapter and provided a bibliography for further research.