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Just in case OP isn't American (South American countries seem to be able to order on amazon.es).
It's quite ridiculous, by the way, that there is no amazon Australia but an amazon Austria that just redirects to the German amazon :/
I don’t have any PDFs, but your local or university library might have a copy of the syntax book I used when I had that class (both at undergrad and grad level). It’s called Syntax: A Generative Introduction by Andrew Carnie. Here’s a link to the paperback on Amazon, for reference: https://www.amazon.com/Syntax-Generative-Introduction-Andrew-Carnie/dp/0470655313
And I just have to say that your professor not using a textbook is pretty dumb, especially at undergrad level. It’s important to have a reference you can look at and read to explain anything you don’t understand in class, and the prof should know that.
My Syntax class uses Andrew Carnie's "Syntax: A Generative Introduction".. Granted, we haven't made it past chapter 6 yet; but I believe this book goes a bit further than X-Bar, as that is covered in chapter 7. Here's the link for it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Syntax-Generative-Introduction-Andrew-Carnie/dp/0470655313
To be honest, this book is really helpful and clear; it's one of the first dense books that I have enjoyed reading. May be too simple for you, but it does get into some advanced syntax.
Sure, check out one of the more recent editions of Andrew Carnie's Textbooks. Most professors I know use that for their intro to Syntax, so if you're a potential student it'll put you ahead of the game.
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Everything in linguistics is basicially a logic puzzle. You must prove that the data justifies your conclusion, whatever that conclusion may be. You find data in research about your subject, or from first-hand fieldwork where you're interviewing a speaker of your language. Undergrad research doesn't have to be splitting the atom, you're making too big a deal of this. Follow the format of other research you can find - believe me, 100 pages sounds like a lot, but after data formatting and some prose, it's a lot less than you think.
Essentially what you're trying to do is apply a guided roadmap to the thing that you've learned about, such that someone else can learn from it. From the complete basics to the conclusions, you should find an interesting question or a few about the field that you studied. What do you feel is interesting the dataset didn't cover? Maybe there was something that was covered, but not in enough detail for your liking? In simply reading data you should find these sort of interesting questions as you read. Try to poke holes in the research you read just as a thought exercise, does the data support it? These holes may spark a topic for you to get interested in.
It sounds like you might be struggling with the lack of basics. Is that correct? It sounds like a lot of your classes may have been taught by non-linguists stuck in these teaching positions, unfortunately. Can you read/write IPA? How much actual linguistics have you studied as part of your degree? Knowing this would allow me to be more helpful. If it's not a lot, try finding some introductory textbooks in various fields, like this for morphology, or this for syntax. Search through syllabi posted for various ling courses at BU/MIT/wherever aind see which texts are avaiable to you. Work through these intros to the topics and see if you can find some features or processes that interest you.
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If you're interested in pursuing these concepts further, I recommend Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction. I think you'll come to realize how much human languages have in common, including such grammatical elements as direct objects and subjects.
Ok here are a few ideas.
I would suggest this Yale course on Literary Theory as a good introduction from the humanities angle.
The major focus of literary analysis these days usually seems to be some variant of "close reading"
For a general overview of linguistics the wiki page is pretty decent. Martin Hilpert's Introductory Linguistics and Congnitive Linguistics courses on youtube are pretty good.
I don't know how much or what type of grammar is covered in an English degree but I would pick up a book on syntax such as:
Carnie - Syntax
A more traditional take:
Traditional Diagramming
Alerternatively, you can find a free book on Syntax here
Being able to parse a sentence into it's constituent pieces is useful for analysis. After that, major fields to look into are:
Some books and resources that fall under these catagories in general (I haven't read all of these):
And because we are learning about English, here is a cheesy documentary that's actually pretty decent.
EDIT: Here is the reddit Linguistics wiki for reference.
OP your wording is very unclear.
LPT for OP: http://www.amazon.com/Syntax-Generative-Introduction-Andrew-Carnie/dp/0470655313/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1394207936&sr=8-3&keywords=syntax+and+grammar
http://www.amazon.com/Syntax-Generative-Introduction-Introducing-Linguistics/dp/0470655313
^If you'd like a really, really detailed explanation.