This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and how to apply the tests in the analysis of sentences.

Haegeman, Liliane; Wekker, Herman

Chapter 1 Aims and Methods; Chapter 2 Constituents; Chapter 3 Functions; Chapter 4 Processes; Chapter 5 Non-Finite Clauses: Raising and Control; Chapter 6 Reanalysis: A Problem of Bracketing; Chapter 7 Levels of Structure;