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Specializations => Morphosyntax => Topic started by: Kereba on October 04, 2014, 12:38:50 PM

Title: Good introductury book for x'
Post by: Kereba on October 04, 2014, 12:38:50 PM

Hello,

Which book would recommend me to truly understand xbar trees andrew carnie's syntax book is awesome but overlooks many examples that a teacher would explain during a class.

Thank you :-)

Title: Re: Good introductury book for x'
Post by: Guijarro on October 05, 2014, 01:26:11 AM

try Andrew Radford's books on the matter. I think they are very clear.

Title: Re: Good introductury book for x'
Post by: Daniel on October 05, 2014, 09:56:58 AM

No introductory book is going to cover everything. Are you looking for an easier book? A more detailed one? A book with more data? A book with more alternative theories?

If you want to know "everything" about x-bar (or anything else in syntax) then you may want to start reading about the history of syntax. In fact, Carnie covers that pretty well. But to fully understand it, knowing how the theory developed is a good idea.

The trouble is that the "same" theory evolves over time and also gets more complex as it addresses more complex data.

Title: Re: Good introductury book for x'
Post by: mallu on October 25, 2014, 08:20:25 AM

Universal Grammar-Newson &Cook