Analysing Sentences

A new edition of this highly successful text - long regarded as a standard introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure.

Noel Burton-Roberts is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He is the author of the Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition (CUP, 1989), the editor of Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues (OUP, 2000) and Pragmatics (Palgrave, 2007), and the author of numerous articles on various aspects of linguistics and the English language.

Preface to the third edition	p. ix
Preface to the second edition	p. xi
Preface to the first edition	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The organisation of the chapters	p. 4
A note on how to read this book	p. 4
Sentence structure: constituents	p. 6
Structure	p. 6
Establishing constituents	p. 10
'Phrase' and 'constituent'	p. 15
Exercises	p. 19
Discussion of exercises	p. 20
Further exercises	p. 23
Sentence structure: functions	p. 24
Subject and predicate	p. 24
Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase	p. 29
Dependency and function	p. 31
Head	p. 32
The modifier
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