Syntax - theory and analysis: an international handbook. Volume 1

Preface; Contents; I. Introduction: Syntax in Linguistics; 1. Syntax -- The State of a Controversial Art; 2. Syntactic Constructions; 3. Syntax and its Interfaces: An Overview; II. The Syntactic Tradition; 4. The Indian Grammatical Tradition; 5. Arabic Syntactic Research; 6. Prestructuralist and Structuralist Approaches to Syntax; III. Syntactic Phenomena; 7. Syntactic Categories and Subcategories; 8. Grammatical Relations; 9. Arguments and Adjuncts; 10. The Morpho-Syntactic Realisation of Negation; 11. The Syntactic Role of Agreement 1. Introduction:; 12. Verb Second.; The handbook offers an overview of syntactic theory and analysis, in terms of different theories, different languages, and different methods. The Handbook presents the state of art in syntactic analysis, also dealing with the methodology employed, and the rules of argumentation required to achieve such analysesfor a wide range of phenomena.