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Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction (Ivan Sag, Thomas Wasow & Emily Bender)
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Ivan Sag, Thomas Wasow and Emily Bender develop ways to describe which sentence structures a grammar permits.
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction builds analyses through problems that expose the limits of simpler accounts.
Lexical information and constraints help explain how grammatical structures are licensed.
The book connects syntax with meaning and evidence from language processing.
Its exercises invite readers to compare competing analyses and test what each one predicts.
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