6th ed. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 408 p. This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. Clear, accessible and comprehensive, it contains a wealth of material to support readers in consolidating their learning and knowledge at every step, from...
Fifth Edition. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 418 p. — (Modern Linguistics). This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument. The text is written in a user-friendly style with many 'hands-on' in-text and chapter-final exercises....
Brill, 1984. — 323 p. — (Syntax and Semantics, Volume 17). This book is about so-called 'complex predicates' such as give... a kiss, have (take) a bath, and make a dash, which are matched by the corresponding 'simple verbs' kiss, bath and dash, as well as about expressions like have a heart-attack, have a nervous breakdown etc., which are not matched in the same way by simple...