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Author's Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts of Syntax
1. Syntactic Competence
1.1 Grammaticality
1.2 Universal Properties of Language
1.3 Data
2. Constituency
2.1 Tree Diagrams
3. Phrase Structure Rules
4.1 Lexical Insertion
4.2 Subcategorization
5. Transformations
Chapter 2: Government-Binding Theory
1.1 The X'-Scheme
1.2 Subcategorization
2. Projection Principle
3.1 Theta-roles
3.2 Theta-Criterion
4. C-Command and Government
5.1 Trace Theory and Empty Categories
5.2 Coindexing
5.3 Landing Sites
5.4 Subjacency
6. Case Theory
7. Summary of Types of Movement and Complement Structures
8. Empty Category Principle
9.1 Binding Theory and the Typology of Empty Categories
9.2 Control
Chapter 3: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
1. Features and Syntactic Categories
1.1 X'-Theory
1.2 Categories
1.3 Features
2. ID/LP Format
2.1 ID/LP
2.2 Heads and Subcategorization
3.1 Lexical and Non-Lexical ID-Rules
3.2 Metarules
4. Sketch of Semantics
5. Projecting From Rules To Trees
5.1 Feature Cooccurrence Restrictions
5.2 Feature Specification Defaults
5.3 Head Feature Convention
5.4 Foot Feature Principle
5.5 Control Agreement Principle
5.6 Linear Precedence Statements
6.1 Unbounded Dependencies
Chapter 4: Lexical-Functional Grammar
1.1 Phrase Structures
1.2 Functional Annotations
2.1 Properties of F-Structure
2.2 Well-Formedness Conditions on F-Structures
2.3 From C-Structures To F-Structures
3. The Lexicon
3.1 Types of Grammatical Function
3.2 Subcategorization
3.3 Some Sample Lexical Entries
3.4 Lexical Rules
4. Control and Binding
4.1 Functional Control
4.2 Anaphoric Control
4.3 Anaphoric Binding
5.1 Long-Distance Dependencies
5.2 Coordination
Chapter 5: Postscript
List of Abbreviations
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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