Preface by Halliday
Prologue
Acknowledgments
1 Goals
1.1 Overview
1.2 Grammatical competence
1.3 Basic concepts and fundamental misconceptions
1.4 Competence as infinite rule-governed creativity
1.5 Discovering the rules
1.6 Levels of adequacy
1.7 Constraining grammars
1.8 Constraints, universals, and acquisition
1.9 Markedness and Core Grammar
1.10 Summary
Exercises
2 Structure
2.1 Overview
2.2 Intuitions about Structure
2.3 Word-level categories
2.4 Phrasal categories: nonsyntactic evidence
2.5 Phrasal categories: distributional evidence
2.6 Phrasal categories: other syntactic evidence
2.7 Words used as Phrases
2.8 Testing the Structure
2.9 Summary
Exercises
3 Phrase-markers
3.1 Overview
3.2 The nature of Phrase-markers
3.3 C-command
3.4 Constraining Phrase-markers
3.5 Generating Phrase-markers
3.6 Another look at categories
3.7 Conflating categories
3.8 The nature of categories
3.9 Summary
Exercises
4 Noun Phrases
4.1 Overview
4.2 Small nominal phrases
4.3 Evidence for N-bar
4.4 Complements and Adjuncts
4.5 Optional constituents of the Noun Phrase
4.6 More differences between Complements and Adjuncts
4.7 Nominal premodifiers
4.8 Adjectival premodifiers
4.9 Summary
Exercises
5 Other Phrases
5.1 Overview
5.2 Verb Phrases
5.3 Adjectival Phrases
5.4 Prepositional Phrases
5.5 Cross-categorial structural symmetry
5.6 Constraining Categorial Rules
5.7 Generalising Categorial Rules
5.8 Eliminating Categorial Rules
5.9 Summary
Exercises
6 Clauses
6.1 Overview
6.2 Finite and nonfinite Clauses
6.3 Constituent structure of Clauses
6.4 Structure of Main Clauses
6.5 Internal structure of S
6.6 Clauses with empty Subjects
6.7 Exceptional Clauses
6.8 Small Clauses
6.9 Summary
Exercises
7 The Lexicon
7.1 Overview
7.2 Categorial information
7.3 Subcategorisation
7.4 Prepositional Complements
7.5 Complement order
7.6 Clausal Complements
7.7 Subcategorising Adjectives, Nouns, and Prepositions
7.8 Eliminating redundancy
7.9 Selection Restrictions
7.10 Thematic relations
7.11 Correlating Thematic and Syntactic Structure
7.12 Theta-marking of Subjects
7.13 Selection Restrictions and Thematic Structure
7.14 Constraints on Theta-marking
7.15 Summary
Exercises
8 Transformations
8.1 Overview
8.2 V MOVEMENT
8.3 I MOVEMENT
8.4 NP MOVEMENT in passive structures
8.5 NP MOVEMENT in Raising structures
8.6 NP MOVEMENT in ergative and middle structures
8.7 EXTRAPOS1T1ON
8.8 Summary
Exercises
9 WH MOVEMENT
9.1 Overview
9.2 Question types
9.3 Syntactic arguments
9.4 Morphological arguments
9.5 Phonological arguments
9.6 Semantic arguments
9.7 WH MOVEMENT in Relative Clauses
9.8 Other wh-constructions
9.9 Targets for WH MOVEMENT
9.10 The landing-site for moved wh-phrases
9.11 Re-examining the status of S
9.12 Re-examining the status of Small Clauses
9.13 Summary
Exercises
10 ALPHA MOVEMENT
10.1 Overview
10.2 Other movement rules
10.3 ALPHA MOVEMENT
10.4 Structure-preserving Principle
10.5 Explaining the Structure-preserving Principle
10.6 Traces
10.7 C-command condition on Traces
10.8 Bounding
10.9 Rule interaction
10.10 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical background
Bibliography
Index