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1	Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences more books like this by K Florey add to wishlist A veteran copyeditor studies the practice of diagramming sentences in a charming and funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament more books like this by Mr. Daniel B Wallace, PhD add to wishlist Depth, accuracy, relevancy and up-to-date presentation make this intermediate Greek grammar the finest available. Written by a world-class authority on textual criticism, it links grammar and exegesis to provide today's second-year Greek student with solid exegetical and linguistic foundations. see all copies from $23.90! new only from $26.34! \| SVS
3	The Basics of New Testament Syntax: An Intermediate Greek Grammar more books like this by Mr. Daniel B Wallace, PhD add to wishlist An abridgment of the award-winning standard reference grammar of New Testament Greek, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, for use in intermediate Greek courses. see all copies from $16.01! new only from $16.01! \| SVS
4	Syntax: A Generative Introduction more books like this by Andrew Carnie add to wishlist Building on the success of the bestselling first edition, the second edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in Principles and Parameters syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions. This title includes new and extended problem ... see all copies from $33.59! new only from $37.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax more books like this by Bill T Arnold, Ph.D., John H Choi add to wishlist This introduces and abridges the syntactical features of the original language of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Scholars have made significant progress in recent decades in understanding Biblical Hebrew syntax. Yet intermediate readers seldom have access to this progress due to the technical jargon and sometimes-obscure locations of the ... see all copies from $13.39! new only from $14.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse more books like this by Ben Yagoda add to wishlist Not since "School House Rock" have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs been explored with such infectious exuberance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
7	Aspects of the Theory of Syntax more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist Chomsky proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes recent developments in the descriptive analysis of particular languages into account. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $18.45! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Syntactic Structures more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a ... see all copies from $9.85! new only from $33.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Subjects, Expletives, and the Epp more books like this by Peter Svenonius (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's "Extended Projection Principle" and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's preposition that each clause must have a subject, these articles represent the state of the debate, particularly with respect ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction more books like this by Andrew Radford add to wishlist This textbook provides a concise, readable introduction to contemporary work in syntactic theory, particularly to key concepts of Chomsky's minimalist programme. Andrew Radford gives a general overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive devices used in 1990s work. The discussion is largely based on data from a range of varieties of ... see all copies from $8.49! new only from $25.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies more books like this by Joao Costa (Editor) add to wishlist This is a collection of previously unpublished articles focusing on the following aspects of Portuguese syntax: clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. The articles are written within the principles and parameters framework and contrast Portuguese ... see all copies from $15.75! new only from $59.85! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Greek Particles more books like this by John D Denniston add to wishlist This revised edition incorporates additional examples from the original author in conjunction with K.J. Dover's own material. In presenting the first (1934) edition, Denniston set himself to cut down the etymological discussion which characterised his German predecessors in the field. He was concerned to illustrate how particles work and how they ... see all copies from $69.95! new only from $69.95! \| first editions
13 view cover	An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax more books like this by Mr. Bruce K Waltke add to wishlist see all copies from $53.55! new only from $53.55!
14 view cover	Understanding Syntax more books like this by Maggie Tallerman add to wishlist Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it discusses and illustrates all the major terms and concepts essential to the study of sentence structure in the world's languages. 'Noun' and 'verb' are explained, and the properties of these categories are discussed. The reader discovers what a finite verb is, what 'first person singular' means and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.69! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Syntactic Theory more books like this by Geoffrey Poole add to wishlist This text emphasizes theory building and hypothesis testing as it develops and motivates Chomsky's "Principles and Parameters" framework. Initial chapters guide the student through introductory topics such as X' Theory, Transformations and elementary Binding Theory. For students needing a bridge to the primary literature, later chapters cover more ... see all copies from $9.40! new only from $10.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Transformational Grammar: A First Course more books like this by Andrew Radford add to wishlist Andrew Radford's new textbook is principally for students with little or no background in syntax who need a lively and up-to-date introduction to contemporary work on transformational grammar. It covers four main topics - the goals of linguistic theory, syntactic structure, the nature and role of the lexicon, and the function of transformations ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $46.82! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Syntax Handbook: Everything You Learned about Syntax-- But Forgot more books like this by Laura M Justice add to wishlist see all copies from $46.41! new only from $48.18!
18 view cover	Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English more books like this by Andrew Radford, S R Anderson (Editor), J Bresnan (Editor) add to wishlist Andrew Radford's latest textbook, Minimalist Syntax, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntactic theory, Radford takes students through a diverse range of topics in English syntax - such as ... see all copies from $29.88! new only from $29.88! \| first editions
19 view cover	Understanding Minimalism more books like this by Professor Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, Kleanthes K Grohmann add to wishlist A clear introduction to the principles and techniques of the Minimalist Program in generative syntax. see all copies from $19.44! new only from $19.98! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Syntax of Chinese more books like this by Cheng-Teh James Huang, Yafei Li add to wishlist The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past 25 years, using the authors' ... see all copies from $44.73! new only from $46.30!
21 view cover	Idiom Book of New Testament Greek more books like this by C F D Moule add to wishlist The student or translator of the New Testament will often find difficulties which can only be solved by considering the syntax of the passage concerned. Professor Moule here provides a reference book which gives guidance on such problems of exegesis. It is a work which presupposes a knowledge of Greek and makes frequent allusions to the standard ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
22 view cover	Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb more books like this by William W Goodwin add to wishlist This version of Goodwin's text is the one enlarged in 1899 from its original 1860 form. The aim of this paperback edition is to make the work available to new generations of Greek scholars who should find its comprehensiveness, clarity and its profusion of specific examples from the major Greek authors a valuable source of reference. see all copies from $9.83! new only from $15.99! \| SVS
23 view cover	Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists more books like this by Thomas E Payne add to wishlist Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing languages have never been described, or described only inadequately. This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of these many ... see all copies from $30.37! new only from $36.60! \| SVS
24 view cover	Syntax of New Testament Greek more books like this by James A Brooks, Carlton L Winbery add to wishlist 32.00 see all copies from $2.00! new only from $16.80!
25 view cover	An Introduction to the Principles of Transformational Syntax more books like this by Adrian Akmajian add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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