8.756, Sum: Books for intro syntax and semantics

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Subject: 8.756, Sum: Books for intro syntax and semantics

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Date:  Tue, 20 May 1997 13:27:13
From:  lijeni at cc.ncu.edu.tw
Subject:  textbooks for intro syntax and semantics

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Date:  Tue, 20 May 1997 13:27:13
From:  lijeni at cc.ncu.edu.tw
Subject:  textbooks for intro syntax and semantics

	A few weeks ago, I sent out a mail to ask for suggestions on
textbooks for intro syntax and semantics.  I've received quite a few
suggestions.  Here I would like to thank those who took time to give
me suggestions, as listed in the following.  The books suggested are
also summarized below.

People I would like to thank:
Rakesh Bhatt <rakesh at utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Richard Badger <rgb3 at stir.ac.uk>
Li-chuan Laurie Yen <uclylye at ucl.ac.uk>
Jun Qian <qian at husc.harvard.edu>
Richard C. DeArmond <dearmond at sfu.ca>
Stanley Dubinsky  <dubinsky at sc.edu>              *
Chad D. Nilep <chad.nilep at asu.edu>		
Thomas E. Payne <tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby <jrouhie at pop.uky.edu>.

Books for syntax:
English Syntax: A Grammar for English Language Professionals, by
Roderick A. Jacobs., Oxford University PRess.
Radford's book Describing Morphosyntax: a Guide for Field Linguists,
Cambridge
Thomas L (199) _Beginning syntax_ Blackwell
Bloor, M & Bloor T (1995) _The Functional Analysis of English_ Arnold
(A Hallidayan View)
Fabb, N. (1994) Sentence Strucutre Routledge
Napoli, Donna Jo.  1993.  Syntax: Theory and problems.  Oxford U
Press. ISBN: 0-19-507946-9
Culicover, Peter.  1997.  Principles and parameters: An introduction
to syntactic theory.  Oxford U Press. ISBN: 0-19-870014-8
Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction; by Vivian J. Cook and
	Mark Newson, second ed. (Blackwell: 1996).
Grammar and Meaning_ by Howard Jackson (Longman: 1990).
Ian Roberts' Comparative Syntax (1996),
L. Haegeman's book, new edition

Books for semantics:
Semantics: A Coursebook, by Hurford and Heasley, Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1983 (latest edition from 1994) ISBN 0-521-28949-1.
Semantics, by Palmer, Cambridge U. Press, 1976. ISBN 0-521-28376-0.
Lyons' new book, Linguistic Semantics, Cambridge.
Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet  for formal semantics.
Cann's new text (Cambridge)

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