English syntax : an introduction / Andrew Radford.
"This textbook provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, Andrew Radford takes students through a wide range of topics in English synta...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Grammar
- 1.1. Overview
- 1.2. Universal Grammar
- 1.3. The Language Faculty
- 1.4. Principles of Universal Grammar
- 1.5. Parameters
- 1.6. Parameter-setting
- 1.7. Evidence used to set parameters
- 1.8. Summary
- Workbook section
- 2 Words
- 2.1. Overview
- 2.2. Grammatical categories
- 2.3. Categorising words
- 2.4. Functional categories
- 2.5. Determiners and quantifiers
- 2.6. Pronouns
- 2.7. Auxiliaries
- 2.8. Infinitival / to
- 2.9. Complementisers
- 2.10. Labelled bracketing
- 2.11. Grammatical features
- 2.12. Summary
- Workbook section
- 3 Structure
- 3.1. Overview
- 3.2. Phrases
- 3.3. Clauses
- 3.4. Clauses containing complementisers
- 3.5. Testing structure
- 3.6. Syntactic relations
- 3.7. Bare phrase structure
- 3.8. Summary
- Workbook section
- 4 Null constituents
- 4.1. Overview
- 4.2. Null subjects
- 4.3. Null auxiliaries
- 4.4. Null T in auxiliariless finite clauses
- 4.5. Null T in bare infinitive clauses
- 4.6. Null C in finite clauses
- 4.7. Null C in non-finite clauses
- 4.8. Defective clauses
- 4.9. Case properties of subjects
- 4.10. Null determiners
- 4.11. Summary
- Workbook section
- 5 Head movement
- 5.1. Overview
- 5.2. T-to-C movement
- 5.3. Movement as copying and deletion
- 5.4. V-to-T movement
- 5.5. Head movement
- 5.6. HAVE /BE-raising
- 5.7. Another look at negation
- 5.8. DO-support
- 5.9. Head movement in nominals
- 5.10. Summary
- Workbook section
- 6 Wh-movement
- 6.1. Overview
- 6.2. Wh-questions
- 6.3. Wh-movement as copying and deletion
- 6.4. Wh-movement and EPP
- 6.5. Attract Closest Principle
- 6.6. Pied-piping and convergence
- 6.7. Pied-piping in prepositional and possessive structures
- 6.8. Yes-no questions
- 6.9. Wh-exclamatives
- 6.10. Relative clauses
- 6.11. Summary
- Workbook section
- 7 A-movement
- 7.1. Overview
- 7.2. Subjects in Belfast English
- 7.3. Idioms
- 7.4. Argument structure and theta-roles
- 7.5. Unaccusative predicates
- 7.6. Passive predicates
- 7.7. Long-distance passivisation
- 7.8. Raising
- 7.9. Comparing raising and control predicates
- 7.10. Summary
- Workbook section
- 8 Agreement, case and movement
- 8.1. Overview
- 8.2. Agreement
- 8.3. Feature valuation
- 8.4. Uninterpretable features and feature deletion
- 8.5. Expletive (it) subjects
- 8.6. Expletive (there) subjects
- 8.7. Agreement and movement
- 8.8. EPP and agreement in control infinitives
- 8.9. EPP in defective clauses
- 8.10. Summary
- Workbook section
- 9 Split projections
- 9.1. Overview
- 9.2. Split CP: Force, Topic and Focus projections
- 9.3. Split CP: Finiteness projection
- 9.4. Split VPs: VP shells in ergative structures
- 9.5. Extending VP shells to other transitive structures
- 9.6. Extending VP shells to unaccusatives
- 9.7. Extending VP shells to passives
- 9.8. Extending VP shells to raising verbs
- 9.9. Transitive light verbs and accusative case assignment
- 9.10. Summary
- Workbook section
- Phases
- 10.1. Overview
- 10.2. Phases
- 10.3. Intransitive and defective clauses
- 10.4. Wh-movement through spec-CP
- 10.5. Wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses
- 10.6. Evidence for wh-movement through spec-CP
- 10.7. Evidence for wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses
- 10.8. Summary
- Workbook section.