Description: James D. McCawley, one of the most original and insightful of syntacticians currently practicing, now gives the most comprehensive text available on syntax. Meant primarily for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, 'The Syntactic Phenomena of English' presumes little prior linguistic training and covers all important syntactic constructions in English. McCawley emphasizes the constructions themselves more than the theory, and the exercises he provides throughout take students beyond the text and give them practice in doing real linguistics. Professional linguists will also learn much from McCawley's analyses and the novel variant of transformational grammar that he develops as well as from the large amount of new data that he presents.

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