Download or read book English Syntax and Argumentation written by Bas Aarts and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this textbook gives students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation. This edition is completely revised, with the chapter on X-bar syntax now split in two to give greater prominence to clauses. It also contains many new exercises, which are now graded in terms of level of difficulty. Each chapter has a section on suggested further reading material, and there is a bibliography and list of recommended reference works.