1. Some Basic Properties of English Syntax
1.1. Some Remarks on the Essence of Human Language
1.2. How We Discover Rules
1.3. Why Do We Study Syntax and What Is It Good for?
1.4. Exercises
2. From Words to Major Phrase Types
2.1. Determining the Lexical Categories
2.2. Grammar with Lexical Categories
2.3. Phrase Structure Rules
2.4. NP: Noun Phrase
2.5. VP: Verb Phrase
2.6. AP: Adjective Phrase
2.7. AdvP: Adverb Phrase
2.8. PP: Preposition Phrase
2.9. Grammar with Phrases
2.10. Exercises
3. Syntactic Forms, Grammatical Functions, and Semantic Roles
3.1. Grammatical Functions
3.2. Direct and Indirect Objects
3.3. Form and Function Together
3.4. Exercises
4. Head, Complements, and Modifiers
4.1. Projections from Lexical Heads to Phrases
4.2. Notion of Head, Complements, and Modifiers
4.3. Differences between Complements and Modifiers
4.4. PS Rules, X-Rules, and Features
4.5. Lexicon and Feature Structures
4.6. Feature Structures and Basic Operations
4.7. Feature Structures for Linguistic Entities
4.8. Verb Types and Argument Structure
4.9. Exercises
5. More on Subjects and Complements
5.1. Grammar Rules and Principles
5.2. Feature Specifications on the Complement Values
5.3. Complements of Verbs
5.4. Complements of Adjectives
5.5. Complements of Common Nouns
5.6. Feature Specifications for the Subject
5.7. Clausal Complement or Subject
5.8. Verbs Selecting a Clausal Complement
5.9. Verbs Selecting a Clausal Subject
5.10. Adjectives Selecting a Clausal Complement
5.11. Nouns Selecting a Clausal Complement
5.12. Prepositions Selecting a Clausal Complement
5.13. Exercises
6. Noun Phrases and Agreement
6.1. Classification of Nouns
6.2. Agreement Types and Morpho-syntactic Features
6.3. Noun-Determiner Agreement
6.4. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
6.5. Subject-Verb Agreement
6.6. Semantic Agreement Features
6.7. Partitive NPs and Agreement
6.8. Two Types of Partitive NPs
6.9. Measure Noun Phrases
6.10. Modifying an NP
6.11. Adjectives as Prenominal Modifiers
6.12. Exercises
7. Raising and Control Constructions
7.1. Raising and Control Predicates
7.2. Differences between Raising and Control Verbs
7.3. Subject Raising and Control
7.4. Object Raising and Control
7.5. A Simple Transformational Approach
7.6. Identical Syntactic Structures
7.7. Differences in Subcategorization Information
7.8. Mismatch between Meaning and Structure
7.9. Explaining the Differences
7.10. Expletive Subject and Object
7.11. Object Control Verbs
7.12. Exercises
8. Auxiliary Constructions
8.1. Be and Have
8.2. Infinitival Clause Marker to
8.3. Explaining the NICE Properties
8.4. Auxiliaries with Negation
8.5. Auxiliaries with Inversion
8.6. Auxiliaries with Ellipsis
8.7. Exercises
9. Passive Constructions
9.1. Relationships between Active and Passive
9.2. Approaches to Passive
9.3. From Structural Description to Structural Change
9.4. Exercises
10. Wh-Questions
10.1. Clausal Types and Interrogatives
10.2. Feature Percolation with No Abstract Elements
10.3. Non-subject Wh-questions
10.4. Subject Wh-Questions
10.5. Non-Wh Indirect Questions
10.6. Infinitival Indirect Questions
10.7. Adjunct wh-questions
10.8. Exercises
11. Relative Clause Constructions
11.1. Non-subject Wh-Relative Clauses
11.2. Subject Relative Clauses
11.3. That-relative clauses
11.4. Infinitival and Bare Relative Clauses
11.5. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
11.6. Constraints on the GAP
11.7. Exercises
12. Special Constructions
12.1. Distributional Properties of the Three clefts
12.2. Syntactic Structures of the Three Types of Cleft: Movement Analyses
12.3. Lexically-Based Analyses
12.4. Exercises
Preface
References
Index
