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Noel Burton. Actor: Battlefield Earth. Born in Wales, Burton came to Canada in 1960, studied theatre at the University of British Columbia from 1963 to 1968, and continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1972 to 1973.
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Noel Burton. Actor: Battlefield Earth. Born in Wales, Burton came to Canada in 1960, studied theatre at the University of British Columbia from 1963 to 1968, and continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1972 to 1973.
Noel Burton-Roberts (born 22 April 1948) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He is known for work ranging over general and English linguistics: architecture of language, semantics , pragmatics , philosophy of language , and English grammar .
Sep 27, 2021 · Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. The book covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and uses tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences.
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- LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE
- LEARNING ABOUT LANGUAGE
- Contents
- 4 The basic Verb Phrase
- 5 Adverbials and other matters
- Part I: Lexical and auxiliary verbs
- 7 The structure of Noun Phrases
- 8 Sentences within sentences
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction
- ■ A note on how to read this book
- Structure
- Further exercises
- 2 Sentence structure: functions
- Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase
- ■ Head
- ■ The head~complement relation
- Summary
- Further exercises
- 3 Sentence structure: categories
- Nouns
- Lexical and phrasal categories (noun and Noun Phrase)
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Adjective Phrases and Adverb Phrases
- Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
- Exercises
- Further exercises
- 4 The basic Verb Phrase
- Summary
- Exercises
- Further exercises
- Exercises
- Further exercises
- Set I
- Set II
- Set III
- 6 More on verbs: auxiliary VPs
- Tense and time
- The perfect auxiliary — have (PERF)
- The passive auxiliary — be (PASS)
- Part II: Constructions that depend on auxiliaries
- Further exercises (Part II)
- Determiners
- the discussion has allowed for just three ways the NP node can be expanded:
- ■ Quantifying adjectives
- Post-modifiers
- Exercises
- Set I
- Set II
- Set III
- Adverbial clauses
- Exercises
- Further exercises
- C1 (lower): Daughter of S-bar (S′) and sister of S
- Subordinate wh-clauses
- Exercises
- Further exercises
- Set I
- 10 Non-finite clauses
- Part I: The form of non-finite clauses
- The form of non-finite verbs
- Part II: The functions of non-finite clauses
- Exercises
- Further exercises
- Languages, sentences and grammars
- Languages
- Describing languages
- Describing infinite languages
- Grammars
- Further reading
General Editors: Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short, Lancaster University
General Editors: Geoffrey Leech & Mick Short, Lancaster University Also in this series: Words and Their Meaning Howard Jackson An Introduction to Phonology Francis Katamba Grammar and Meaning Howard Jackson An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Third edition) Janet Holmes Realms of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics Th. R. Hofmann An Introduction...
Preface to the third edition Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition
A first look at verbs The complements of lexical verbs Transitive verbs Intransitive verbs Ditransitive verbs Intensive verbs Complex transitive verbs Prepositional verbs Summary Discussion of in-text exercises Exercises Discussion of exercises Further exercises
Adjunct adverbials (VP adverbials) Levels of Verb Phrase The mobility of adverbials Phrasal verbs Ellipsis Sentence adverbials (S adverbials) Discussion of in-text exercises Exercises Discussion of exercises Further exercises
Tense and time The contrast between lexical and auxiliary verbs Modal auxiliaries (MOD) The perfect auxiliary – have (PERF) The progressive auxiliary – be (PROG) The passive auxiliary – be (PASS) Where auxiliaries fit in the structure of VP Auxiliary VPs and adverbials
Determiners Pre-determiners Pre-modifiers in NOM Quantifying adjectives Participle phrases (PartP) Nouns More on the structure of NOM Post-modifiers Prepositional Phrases More on Adjective Phrases Modification of pronouns Discussion of in-text exercises Exercises Discussion of exercises Further exercises Appendix: NOM and the pro-form one Answers t...
Complementisers: that and whether The functions of that- and whether-clauses Subject – and extraposed subject Complement of V within VP Complement of A within AP Complement of N within NP Complement of P within PP Adverbial clauses Discussion of in-text exercises Exercises Discussion of exercises Further exercises
The major substantive change in this edition concerns VERBS. I have abandoned the ‘Verb Group’. The ‘Vgrp’ was pedagogically convenient but it did not do justice to the facts of how auxiliary verbs figure the structure of VP. The treatment of auxiliaries is now more standard. Each auxiliary is treated as taking a VP complement. This allows me to ma...
When I first wrote Analysing Sentences, I had in mind the kind of mixed audi-ence that I taught (and still teach) in an introductory course at Newcastle. This included first-year undergraduates in linguistics and English language who would be going on to find out more about English syntax, syntactic theory, and argumentation in syntactic theory in ...
Attempting to describe the language you speak is about as difficult as attempt-ing to describe yourself as a person. Your language is very much part of you and your thinking. You use your language so instinctively that it is difficult to stand outside yourself and think of it as something that is independent of you, some-thing which you know and wh...
There are several kinds of exercises. The end-of-chapter ‘Exercises’ are followed immediately by answer/discussion sections. These should form an important part of your reading of each chapter. Most of these are designed to give you practice in applying the analyses discussed in the chapter, but some develop the discussion further. In addition, the...
The concept of structure is fundamental to the study of syntax. But it is a very general concept that can be applied to any complex thing, whether it’s a bicycle, commercial company, or a carbon molecule. When we say of a thing that it is complex we mean, not that it is complicated (though of course it may be), but that it is divisible into parts (...
The structural ambiguity of [36] in the text is a matter of whether old Sam or how old is a constituent. All the following are structurally ambiguous. In each case, identify the source of the ambiguity in terms of two different constituent analyses, as I have just done with [36]. This story shows what evil men can do. They only sell rotten fruit an...
As I pointed out at the beginning of Chapter 1, understanding the structure of a sentence involves more than knowing what its constituents are. It involves knowing the category and the function of those constituents. As you will see in this and the next chapter, these three aspects of syntactic analysis are closely bound up with one another. This c...
So much, then, for the functions – subject and predicate – of the immediate constituents of the sentence. I’ll return to the functions of constituents, in a more general way, later in the chapter. The question that now arises is: What kinds – or categories – of phrases function as subjects and as predicates? We have seen that such phrases can vary ...
The head of a phrase is the element that the phrase is centred on. It is the one essential – or obligatory – element in that phrase. If you think of the phrase as a solar system, then the head is the sun. Everything else in the phrase revolves around and depends on the head. Just as a system is a solar system because it’s centred on a sun, so a phr...
We have now looked at the two-way function/dependency of subject and predi-cate and several examples of the one-way function/dependency of modifier and head. Now look again at the phrase beside a stream (from the sentence Old Sam sunbathed beside a stream) in the light of the discussion in this chapter. Do you recall the structure of the phrase? Dr...
Constituents have their functions in respect of their sisters. There are three kinds of functional relation between sisters: Subject~Predicate. The functional relation between the immediate constituents of sentences, Noun Phrase (NP) and Verb Phrase (VP). It is a mutual (two-way) dependency – S and P are both obligatory. S precedes P. Modifier~Head...
For each of the following sentences, identify the subject NP and the predicate VP by drawing phrase markers like that in [33] on page 30. In cases where the sentence is not exhaustively divisible into NP followed by VP, list the extra constituents separately. I am accepting your invitation. The income received from fines can’t be taken into account...
I have explained the oddity of *their rather jokes as being due to the fact that rather has a function only in respect of dubious and that, if you omit dubious, rather is left without a function. But why is rather left without a function? In the absence of dubious, why can’t rather modify jokes instead? Or couldn’t we say that rather modifies (or i...
For the purposes of identification, it is best to start with a very traditional definition of what a noun is: a noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. There are problems with this traditional definition. For example, ‘thing’ has to be interpreted very broadly, to include substances like butter and foam (since butter and foam are nouns), abs...
Before introducing further lexical categories, I will look at the relation between lexical and phrasal categories, using nouns and Noun Phrases as an example. In Chapter 2 we saw that an NP is a phrase that contains, and is centred on, a noun. Their rather dubious jokes is an NP and it contains the noun jokes. But it contains words of other categor...
Dubious and subtle are adjectives. Any word that has the same distribution as those words is an adjective. Many adjectives have characteristic endings, such as -able, -al, -ate, -ful, -ic, -ing, -ish, -ive, -less, -ous, -y. Examples are: capable, economical, Italianate, beautiful, microscopic, surprising, priggish, inventive, hopeless, eponymous, f...
Rather dubious, extremely subtle, and too modest are Adjective Phrases. As with the NP, the phrase is of the same category as its head word, i.e. Adjective Phrases (AP) are centred on adjectives (A). And, like NPs, an AP can consist of an unmodified head, a simple adjective. For example, in Aldo’s quite delicious pizzas the AP, quite delicious, fun...
Recall the discussion of beside a stream. Beside is a preposition (P) and it is the head of the whole phrase. So the whole phrase is a prepositional phrase (PP). A stream, we decided in the last chapter, is functioning as complement to that head. Within a PP, the relation between a preposition and the following Noun Phrase is a head~complement rela...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
There is a wide range of texts on descriptive English grammar and on linguistics in general. The following is a small selection of those appropriate as further reading in connection with the present text, which has been influenced both by a descriptive English grammar tradition and by the theoretical perspective of generative grammar. Bas Aarts’ En...
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