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In this web service Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-83499-5 - English Syntax: An Introduction. Andrew Radford.

This abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it leads students through a range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and pro This abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it leads students through a range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages towards more advanced material. An extensive glossary is included and each chapter contains a workbook section with 'helpful hints,' exercises, and model answers, suitable for class discussion and self-study.

Alma mater Known for, of language development, acquisition Scientific career Fields,, child Institutions,,,,: a research fellow at the at Influences Andrew Radford is a British linguist known for his work in and child. His first important contribution to the field was a 1977 book on Italian syntax. He achieved international recognition in 1981 for his book Transformational Syntax, which sold over 30,000 copies and was the standard introduction to Chomsky's for many years; and this was followed by a best-selling introduction to in 1988, which sold over 70,000.

He has since published several books on syntax within the framework of and the of (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series). In the 1990s, he was a pioneer of the maturation-based of child language, and the acquisition of functional categories in early child English within the framework, in which children are seen as gradually building up more and more complex structures, with (like noun and verb) being acquired before functional- (like determiner and complementiser): this research resulted in the publication of a monograph on Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax in 1990, and numerous articles on the acquisition of syntax by monolingual, bilingual and language-disordered children. Since 2010, he has researched the syntax of, using data recorded from unscripted radio and TV broadcasts. Tablica prihod rashod ostatok. He produced a research monograph on this, and a number of articles, and is preparing a follow-up research monograph on the syntax of relative clauses in colloquial English Radford is now [ ] emeritus (distinguished) professor of at the. This section of a does not any.