The Syntax Workbook : A Companion to Carnie's Syntax (Paperback, 2 ed)

Preface and Acknowledgments vii

Part 1 Preliminaries 1

1 Generative Grammar 3

2 Parts of Speech 11

3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 21

4 Structural Relations 61

5 Binding Theory 71

Part 2 The Base 79

6 X-bar Theory 81

7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 137

8 Constraining X-bar: Theta Theory 165

9 Theta Grids and Functional Categories 175

Part 3 Movement 185

10 Head-to-Head Movement 187

11 DP Movement 199

12 Wh-movement and Locality Constraints 217

13 A Unified Theory of Movement 235

Part 4 Advanced Topics 239

14 Ditransitives 241

15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 251

16 Ellipsis 263

17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 269

18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-configurationality 271

19 Merge 275

References 279

Index 281