The goal of this manual is to introduce students to the syntactic analysis of English by offering a comprehensive discussion of the core concepts and theoretical assumptions that underlie minimalist syntax. In this book, syntactic operations such as Merge and Agree are systematically linked to the morphosyntactic features that are relevant for English. In addition, they are shown to result in the phrase structure predicted by constituency tests. By exploring the properties and syntactic behaviour of functional categories such as little v, Tense and Complementiser, the manual offers students analytical tools to understand and discuss the grammar underlying basic English sentences. Each unit contains exercises with a key to practise and widen the content and skills covered.
This article is devoted to the study of current syntactic processes in the structure of simple sentences, based on the Kyrgyz and German languages. The focus is on complex mechanisms of sentence transformation, such as expansion, complication, combination, and deployment, as well as the processes of addition and inclus...
S. Sadykova, G. Bakashova· Bulletin of Science and Prac...· 0 citations
- This work presented a contrastive syntactic analysis of English and Khana clause structures in order to identify their ground similarities and differences that define the syntactic organization of the two languages. English is the most spoken world language with much attention given to it by linguists. Khana as one o...
Muele-Gabriel Ewonu, Florence Nne Agwu· Iconic research and engineer...· 0 citations
This article examines the linguistic description of compound sentences in modern English linguistics from syntactic, functional, and communicative perspectives. The study analyzes theoretical approaches proposed by prominent linguists such as N. Chomsky, G. Leech, J. Svartvik, R. Quirk, M.A.K. Halliday, R. Huddleston,...
The study argues that syntactic complexity in Book 2 functions as a cognitively demanding yet pedagogically purposeful feature, supporting the transition from intermediate to advanced proficiency, and provides an empirical framework for evaluating textbook difficulty and highlights the need for scaffolded instruction t...
A. Bhatti, Ahsan Bashir· Journal of innovative resear...· 0 citations
The subject of the study is the structural and grammatical features of Russian proverbs, namely the constructive and syntactic organization of proverbs, typical semantics of models, linguistic means of designing the predicative core and syntactic construction. The classification description is carried out based on the...
