This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Minilyrics Latest Version here. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Analysing English Sentences (also published by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcomed as a handy introduction to current syntactic theory.

Contents: Course Description Texts Syllabus Model of Grammar Structure of Course Language Lab Exercises Exams Grading Keywords On Line Labs. Note: those files marked with '(pdf)' are written in pdf-format, and will open only with Acrobat Reader. Syntax: A Generative Introduction, by Andrew Carnie. ENGLISH SYNTAX: Andrew Radford. (2004) English Syntax: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN 0 521 54275 8. 1.1 Overview. In broad terms, this book is concerned with aspects of grammar. Grammar is traditionally subdivided into two different but.