文档介绍：A MODERN COURSE
IN ENGLISH SYNTAX
HERMAN WEKKER AND
LILIANE HAEGEMAN
London . New York
CONTENTS
First published in 1985
by Croom Helm Ltd
Pre face
R eprinted in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996
by ROutledge
I I New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE I: Aims and Methods Elements after the Head 41
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 1000 I ~. Summing up the NP 41
Exercise 42
1. 1 What is Syntax? 5
Routledge is an [merna/ional Thomson pany Verb Phrases 42
Representing Sentence introduction 42
Structure 6 plements 43
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Bracketing 6 Elements before the Head 46
Labelled Bracketing 8 The First Auxiliary in
Primed and bound in Great Britain by
1. Tree Diagrams and Phrase the VP 48
S :ddles Ltd, Guildford and King's LYTlIl Structure Rules
10 Summing up the VP 50
Sentence and Discourse 13 E.•ercises 51
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be Exercises 15 Prepositional Phrases 51
reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form Constituency Tests 15 Summing up the PP 52
. 1 Variations on 8<:-.sic Sentence
or by any electronic, mechanical or other means. Exercise 53
includin~ Patterns 16 Adjective Phrases 53
aow known or hereafter invented, 1. 3 :! C1efting 16
photocopying and recording, or in any .5. 1 Summing up the AdjP 54
Pseudo-e1efting 18 Exercises
information storage or retrieval system, without 55
Passivisation 18 Adverb Phrases 55
permission in writing from tbe publishers. .5
Pronominalisation 18 Summing up the AdvP 56
. 6 Fronting 19 Exercises 56
BJitish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Exercises 19 Words 56
Wekker. Herman Introduction 56
. Word Classes: the Distribution
A rnodem Course in English syntax. of Words 57
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