Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English:A Minimalist Approach

目录
1 Principles and parameters
1.1 Overview
1.2 Grammar
1.3 Criteria of adequacy
1.4 Language faculty
1.5 Creativity
1.6 Principles
1.7 Parameters
1.8 Parameter-setting
1.9 Evidence
1.10 Summary
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2 Categories and features
2.1 Overview
2.2 Morphological evidence
2.3 Syntactic evidence
2.4 Functional categories:determiners and pronouns
2.5 Auxiliaries and infinitival to
2.6 Complementizers
2.7 Parsing
2.8 Subcategorial features
2.9 Cross-categorial features
2.10 Summary
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3 Syntactic structure
3.1 Overview
3.2 Forming phrases
3.3 Specifiers
3.4 Forming sentences
3.5 Tree diagrams
3.6 Configurational relations
3.7 Testing structure
3.8 Additional tests
3.9 C-command
3.10 Summary
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4 Empty categories
4.1 Overview
4.2 PRO subjects
4.3 Null auxiliaries
4.4 Unfilled INFL
4.5 Bare infinitives
4.6 Null complementizers
4.7 Null determiners
4.8 Pronouns
4.9 Attributive adjectives
4.10 Summary
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5 Checking
5.1 Overview
5.2 Interpretable and uninterpretable features
5.3 Checking
5.4 Phrases
5.5 Percolation
5.6 Determiner phrases
5.7 PRO subjects
5.8 Objective subjects
5.9 Bare phrase structure
5.10 Summary
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6 Head movement
6.1 Overview
6.2 Auxiliary inversion
6.3 Traces
6.4 Verb movement
6.5 Strong and weak features
6.6 Negation
6.7 The syntax of have
6.8 Tense affix
6.9 Question affix
6.10 Summary
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7 Operator movement
7.1 Overview
7.2 Wh-operators
7.3 Enlightened self-interest and shortest movement
7.4 Pied-piping
7.5 Embedded questions in Belfast English
7.6 Embedded questions in Standard English
7.7 Subject questions
7.8 Yes-no questions
7.9 Nonoperator questions
7.10 Summary
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8 A movement
8.1 Overview
8.2 VP-internal subject hypothesis
8.3 Evidence that subjects originate in spec-VP
8.4 Argument structure and theta-marking
8.5 Case-checking via head-adjunction and attraction
8.6 Raising predicates
8.7 Differences between raising and control predicates
8.8 Passivization
8.9 Explanation
8.10 Summary
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9 VP shells
9.1 Overview
9.2 Ergative predicates
9.3 Adverbs and prepositional particles
9.4 Ditransitive and resultative predicates
9.5 Three-place predicates with clausal complements
9.6 Object-control predicates
9.7 Monotransitive predicates
9.8 Unergative predicates
9.9 Unaccusative predicates
9.10 Summary
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10 Agreement projections
10.1 Overview
10.2 Subject agreement projections
10.3 Evidence from other varieties of English
10.4 Object agreement projections
10.5 Exceptional case-marking
10.6 Indirect object agreement projections
10.7 Genitive DPs
10.8 For-infinitives and prepositional objects
10.9 Passives and unaccusatives reconsidered
10.10 Summary
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Glossary and list of abbreviations
References
Index
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