English Syntax in Three Dimensions : : History – Synchrony – Diachrony / / Carola Trips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Trips, Carola,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Textbook
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

This book deals with syntax in three dimensions: in part I with the history of grammatical theory, in part II with synchronic aspects of Present-Day English, and in part III with diachronic aspects of English. The most prominent linguistic terms and phenomena are discussed in their historical contex...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• List of abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Greeks and Romans and the first grammatical theory
• 3. The Middle Ages
• 4. Grammar in the Renaissance and the first grammars of English
• 5. Modern linguistics and structuralism
• 6. Chomsky and constituency grammars
• 7. Introduction
• 8. Sentence structure of Present-Day English
• 9. Dependency relations and linguistic universals
• 10. Syntactic variation
• 11. Comparative syntax from a synchronic perspective
• 12. Movement and its application to the syntax of English
• 13. Introduction
• 14. Sentence structure of Early English
• 15. Dependency relations in Early English
• 16. Syntactic variation in Early English
• 17. Comparative syntax from a diachronic perspective
• 18. Syntactic movement in the history of English
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index