The Ghost Cadet

By Elaine Marie Alphin

Book Overview

One of the major contributions to theoretical linguistics during the twentieth century has been an advancement of our understanding that the information-bearing units which make up human language are organized on a hierarchy of levels. It has been an overarching goal of research since the 1930s to determine the precise nature of those levels and what principles guide interactions among them. Linguists have typically posited phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels, each with its own distinct vocabulary and organizing principles, but in Deconstructing Morphology Rochelle Lieber persuasively challenges the existence of a morphological level of language. Her argument, that rules and vocabulary claimed to belong to the morphological level in fact belong to the levels of syntax and phonology, follows the work of Sproat, Toman, and others. Her study, however, is the first to draw jointly on Chomsky's Government-Binding Theory of syntax and on recent research in phonology. Ranging broadly over data from many languages-including Tagalog, English, French, and Dutch- Deconstructing Morphology addresses key questions in current morphological and phonological research and provides an innovative view of the overall architecture of grammar.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805016147
• ISBN13: 9780805016147
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Ghost Cadet

Hey, I had to choose a book to read for a test in school and I've always been interested in the Civil War so I picked this book.I LOVED IT!!!It was really cool.I'm even going to New Market this summer to find out more about the battle.It kept me interested.I never knew what was gonna happen! =)Ryleigh

This is a awsome book

I really enjoied this book because it has a lot of info on New Market and my favorite part is when Hugh met Benji.

Wonderful book and historically accurate, too

I found this book to be very entertaining. A friend of mine uses this book in her elementary school classes. The students find the story very absorbing and learn about history, too. I'm a little surprised at the weak reviews given to this book. Enriching reading for adults and children ! If you've never visited the Shenandoah Valley or the Virginia Military Institute, this book will inspire you to do so.

My first but certainly not last Civil war read!

Ms. Alphin has really put this battle into perspective and told the facts without embellishing on the participation of her main character (Cadet Private William Hugh McDowell of the VMI) in the New Market battle. Just after reading this, I bought a copy and read William Davis' account The Battle Of New Market. Comparing the two, not only has the author told the real story but still emphasized the importance of this battle from the perspective that a grade school reader can understand. Her book has opened up this medium-sized yet very influential conflict to a lot of people and given a large audience of readers a window into that period of the Civil War. Her internal conflicts that occur within the other of her two main characters draw away from the main event, but the excitement from the battle can be overwhelmed by nothing.

Ghost Cadet , by E.M. Alphin. A very worthwhile read.

After reading this book I was only momentarily puzzled by the very sour reviews included in this website. After all, here is a work of juvenile fiction which, in a highly readible presentation, chooses to view the Civil War through the eyes of Southerners. What could be more threatening to a publishing establishment dominated almost exclusively by Northern liberals? Readers would be well advised to consider this -- and then make up their own minds as they read Alphin's fine offering.