Minimalist syntax : exploring the structure of English = 最简句法入门 : 探究英语的结构 /

　　Preface
　　1 Grammar
　　 1.1 Overview
　　 1.2 Traditional grammar
　　 1.3 Universal Grammar
　　 1.4 The Language Faculty
　　 1.5 Principles of Universal Grammar
　　 1.6 Parameters
　　 1.7 Parameter-setting
　　 1.8 Evidence used to set parameters
　　 1.9 Summary
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　　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
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　　3 Structure
　　 3.1 Overview
　　 3.2 Phrases
　　 3.3 Clauses
　　 3.4 Specifiers
　　 3.5 Intermediate and maximal projections
　　 3.6 Testing structure
　　 3.7 Syntactic relations
　　 3.8 Bare phrase structure
　　 3.9 Summary
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　　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
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　　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 Auxiliary raising
　　 5.7 Another look at negation
　　 5.8 DO-support
　　 5.9 Head movement in nominals
　　 5.10 Summary
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　　6 Wh-movement
　　 6.1 Overview
　　 6.2 Wh-questions
　　 6.3 Wh-movement as a copying operation
　　 6.4 Wh-movement, EPP and the Attract Closest Principle
　　 6.5 Explaining what moves where
　　 6.6 Wh-subject questions
　　 6.7 Pied-piping
　　 6.8 Yes-no questions
　　 6.9 Wh-exclamatives
　　 6.10 Relative clauses
　　 6.11 That-relatives
　　 6.12 Summary
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　　7 A-movement
　　 7.1 Overview
　　 7.2 Subjects in Belfast English
　　 7.3 Quotatives and idioms
　　 7.4 Argument structure
　　 7.5 Thematic roles
　　 7.6 Unaccusative predicates
　　 7.7 Passive predicates
　　 7.8 Long-distance passivisation
　　 7.9 Raising
　　 7.10 Comparing raising and control predicates
　　 7.11 Summary
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　　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 A-movement
　　 8.8 EPP in control infinitives
　　 8.9 EPP in other infinitives
　　 8.10 Summary
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　　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 VP shells in resultative, double-object and object-control structures
　　 9.6 VP shells in transitive, unergative, unaccusative, raising and locative inversion structures
　　 9.7 Transitive light verbs and accusative case assignment
　　 9.8 Evidence for a further projection in transitive verb phrases
　　 9.9 Extending the shell analysis to nominals
　　 9.10 Summary
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　　10 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 successive-cyclic wh-movement through spec-CP
　　 10.7 Evidence for wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses
　　 10.8 The role of phases in lexical selection
　　 10.9 Questions about phases
　　 10.10 The nature of A-bar movement
　　 10.11 Summary
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　　Glossary and list of abbreviations
　　References
　　Index