Introduction to Transformational Grammar
by Kyle Johnson
Publisher: University of Massachusetts 2007
Number of pages: 290
Description:
These are the always evolving notes from an introductory course on syntactic theory taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Its target audience is first-year graduate students, but no background exposure to syntax is presupposed.
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