31.1274, Books: Adventures in English Syntax: Freidin

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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:42:48
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Adventures in English Syntax: Freidin

 


Title: Adventures in English Syntax 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/adventures-english-syntax?format=HB 


Author: Robert Freidin

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108487726 Pages: 214 Price: U.S. $ 99.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108737807 Pages: 218 Price: U.S. $ 32.99


Abstract:

For anyone who wants to become a more effective writer, a more perceptive
reader, and a more precise thinker, an understanding of English sentence
structure is indispensable. This book shows you how to begin. Using clear and
engaging examples from English, it introduces the basic concepts of syntactic
structure to readers with no background in linguistics. Starting with simple,
familiar phrases, and progressing to more complex sentences, it builds on what
we already intuitively know, to provide a step-by-step account of why we
understand these examples as we do. It then shows how that understanding can
be applied to writing, helping us to avoid some of the common hallmarks of
'bad writing', such as ambiguity, redundancy, and vagueness. A unique and
valuable resource, this book will enrich your understanding of English in ways
that will make you a more effective user of the language

1. One fish two fish: an adventure in ambiguity
2. Exceptional students and teachers
3. Introduction to language and linguistics
4. A review of a book by two philosophers
5. Bob is certain to succeed
6. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of
good fortune must be in want of a wife
7. Does every politician who cheats instinctively lie?
8. Inferior defenses could then, as now, be tackled, as Vernon did at Porto
Bello, Exmouth at Algiers, and Seymour at Alexandria
Concluding comment
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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