This is a brief book on the basics of grammar. It provides an overview of syntax and morphology, two of the central subfields of linguistics, and their interactions. It relies only on widely-accepted notions in theoretical linguistics, such as concatenative morphology, syntax trees, X-bar structures and phrase structure grammars. However, it does not adhere to any particular current theory of grammar. Linguistics is a prerequisite. It is intended to be followed by such books as Morphology, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Government and Binding Theory, and The Minimalist Program.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Syntax
    • Morphology
  • Parts of Speech
    • Lexical Categories
    • Functional Categories
  • Constituency
    • X-bar Theory
  • Grammatical Functions
    • Arguments and Subcategorisation
    • Voice
    • Adjuncts
  • Long-Distance Dependencies
    • Relativisation
    • Interrogatives
  • Morphological Processes
  • Bracketing
  • Forms of Adjectives and Nouns
  • Forms of Verbs and Adverbs
    • Tense and Aspect
    • Mood and Evidentiality

References
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