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Summary: Brilliant, but specific to a certain learning style
Review: Donna Jo Napoli is a wonderful syntactician and teacher, and the problem sets alone in this book were worth the buy for me. They can be frustrating at times, but force you to think in ways that are new and very helpful, even at times exciting. However, it is true that, especially if the reader has never met or taken a class with Napoli, there are certain learning styles that will have trouble with this book. It's all inductive reasoning, and Napoli does not always follow a linear organization, so if the reader is the type of learner who likes to have things laid out in a very clear, systematic manner, or who is easily distracted and frustrated by tangents, they will have difficulty with this book. For the rest of us, the tangents can be fascinating. Finally, it should be noted that there are no "answers" provided for the problem sets; they are exercises in reasoning, but if you get stuck there's nothing to peek at. There are, however, references cited for the problem sets in the bibliography. The best thing about Donna Jo in my opinion is that, unlike other syntacticians, she doesn't tell you things. She makes you come up with your own ideas, and discard them if they turn out to be invalid. I bought the book and inted to keep it.
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Summary: Ich bin ein rotkohl!
Review: Habt ihr meine grune gurke gesehen? Psychoanalytikers und Management-Beraters Manfred Kets de Vries stellt anhand vieler Beispiele zentrale Erklärungsansätze zum Thema Führung aus der Perspektive der Psychoanalyse vor. De Vries' Gedankengänge zielen vor allem darauf ab, die Rolle des Irrationalen als Kriterium für die Auslese von Führungspersonal einerseits und als Faktor von Führungsentscheidungen andererseits herauszuarbeiten. Mehr Themen und Tips
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Summary: Ich bin ein rotkohl!
Review: Habt ihr meine grune gurke gesehen? Psychoanalytikers und Management-Beraters Manfred Kets de Vries stellt anhand vieler Beispiele zentrale Erklärungsansätze zum Thema Führung aus der Perspektive der Psychoanalyse vor. De Vries' Gedankengänge zielen vor allem darauf ab, die Rolle des Irrationalen als Kriterium für die Auslese von Führungspersonal einerseits und als Faktor von Führungsentscheidungen andererseits herauszuarbeiten. Mehr Themen und Tips
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Summary: Good textbook, but has some flaws
Review: Napoli's syntax text is good in that it covers a wide range of problems, theories, and ways of working through syntax. Focusing on General Binding Theory, Napoli leads us to conclusions through inductive learning methods. This gets very frustrating at times for students because it seems that she never actually tells the reader anything; merely waits for them to discover everything without too much help. She also has some very unorthodox views of basic syntactic categories (such as Indirect Objects) that can be very disconcerting to the innocent Linguistics student. Many students find this book frustrating and annoying, but do learn an awful lot by the end, if they can make it that far.
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