Bas Aarts is een vooraanstaand taalkundige gespecialiseerd in syntaxis, met een bijzondere focus op verbale syntaxis. Zijn onderzoek duikt in de ingewikkelde structuren van de Engelse grammatica en het taalgebruik. Hij heeft uitgebreid gepubliceerd op zijn vakgebied en is een van de oprichtende redacteuren van een vooraanstaand academisch tijdschrift.
This book is an accessible and authoritative A-Z that provides up-to-date definitions of over 1,600 current grammatical terms, with hundreds of useful example sentences and helpful quotations from the scholarly literature. An invaluable guide to all those interested in the English language.
Uses authentic spoken and written examples from the British Component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), as well as newspapers and other sources --
This book brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, of gradience in meaning, word classes, and syntax. Issues such as how many grains make a heap, when a puddle becomes a pond, and so forth, have occupied thinkers since Aristotle and over the last two decades been the subject of increasing interest among linguists as well as in fields such as artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.
This textbook on syntax gives students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time acquaints them with the essentials of syntactic argumentation. This new edition is completely revised, with the chapter on X-bar syntax now split in two to give greater prominence to clauses. It also contains many new exercises, which are now graded in terms of level of difficulty. Each chapter has a section on suggested further reading material, and there is a bibliography and list of recommended reference works.