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Meaningful Arrangement - Exploring the Syntactic Description of Texts (Hardcover, New)
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Meaningful Arrangement - Exploring the Syntactic Description of Texts (Hardcover, New)
Series: Functional Linguistics
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This book takes apart and problematises the whole process of
identifying and explaining the patterning of words in sentences. It
brings together two concepts - syntax and text - that are normally
treated separately, and shows how they can best be understood in
relation to each other. Part 1, Processing the text, concentrates
on getting texts ready for syntactic analysis. Since the data needs
to be mediated through the processing of the text, the nature of
that processing and its effects on subsequent analysis need to be
made explicit. Part 2, Analysing the clause, introduces the
relevant syntactic phenomena and the sorts of concepts normally
used to explain them. It shows how many of the assumptions of
traditional syntactic analysis derive from the languages which form
the basis of the European tradition, and that different languages
require the so-called "basic categories" of syntactic analysis to
be rethought. Part 3, Theorising syntax, sketches the range of
syntactic theories available for the "consumer." It gives a sense
of developments in the field over the last 50 years not just in
terms of the usual "schools," but by picking up on concepts such as
the key complementarity between syntagmatic and paradigmatic to
characterise the emphases and biases of different theories.
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