Syntax Workbook (Paperback)

Introduction: Welcome 1

Part 1 Preliminaries 3

1 Generative Grammar 5

2 Parts of Speech 13

3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 20

4 Structural Relations 39

5 Binding Theory 46

Part 2 The Base 51

6 X-bar Theory 53

7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 72

8 Constraining X-bar Theory: Theta Theory 84

9 Auxiliaries and Functional Categories 93

Part 3 Movement 107

10 Head-to-Head Movement 109

11 DP Movement 117

12 Wh -movement and Locality Constraints 127

13 A Unified Theory of Movement 145

Part 4 Advanced Topics 149

14 Expanded VPs 151

15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 157

16 Ellipsis 169

17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 174

18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-configurationality 177

References 180

Index 182