Includes bibliographical references (pages 650-702) and indexes.
1. The goals of linguistic theory -- 2. Syntactic structure, I: simple clauses and noun phrases -- 3. Semantic representation, I: verbs and arguments -- 4. Semantic representation, II: macroroles, the lexicon and noun phrases -- 5. Information structure -- 6. Grammatical relations -- 7. Linking syntax and semantics in simple sentences -- 8. Syntactic structure, II: complex sentences and noun phrases -- 9. Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences -- Epilog: the goals of linguistic theory revisited.
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This introduction to syntactic theory and analysis presents syntactic phenomena from a wide range of languages and explains to students the major typological issues that syntactic theories must address. It includes a number of exercises.