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English syntax : an introduction / Andrew Radford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521834996
  • 9780521834995
  • 0521542758
  • 9780521542753
Uniform titles:
  • Minimalist syntax
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1361 .R33 2004
Contents:
Grammar -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Universal Grammar -- 1.3. The Language Faculty -- 1.4. Principles of Universal Grammar -- 1.5. Parameters -- 1.6. Parameter-setting -- 1.7. Evidence used to set parameters -- 1.8. Summary -- Workbook section --2 Words -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Grammatical categories -- 2.3. Categorising words -- 2.4. Functional categories -- 2.5. Determiners and quantifiers -- 2.6. Pronouns -- 2.7. Auxiliaries -- 2.8. Infinitival / to -- 2.9. Complementisers -- 2.10. Labelled bracketing -- 2.11. Grammatical features -- 2.12. Summary -- Workbook section --3 Structure -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Phrases -- 3.3. Clauses -- 3.4. Clauses containing complementisers -- 3.5. Testing structure -- 3.6. Syntactic relations -- 3.7. Bare phrase structure -- 3.8. Summary -- Workbook section --4 Null constituents -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2. Null subjects -- 4.3. Null auxiliaries -- 4.4. Null T in auxiliariless finite clauses -- 4.5. Null T in bare infinitive clauses -- 4.6. Null C in finite clauses -- 4.7. Null C in non-finite clauses -- 4.8. Defective clauses -- 4.9. Case properties of subjects -- 4.10. Null determiners -- 4.11. Summary -- Workbook section --5 Head movement -- 5.1. Overview -- 5.2. T-to-C movement -- 5.3. Movement as copying and deletion -- 5.4. V-to-T movement -- 5.5. Head movement -- 5.6. HAVE /BE-raising -- 5.7. Another look at negation -- 5.8. DO-support -- 5.9. Head movement in nominals -- 5.10. Summary -- Workbook section --6 Wh-movement -- 6.1. Overview -- 6.2. Wh-questions -- 6.3. Wh-movement as copying and deletion -- 6.4. Wh-movement and EPP -- 6.5. Attract Closest Principle -- 6.6. Pied-piping and convergence -- 6.7. Pied-piping in prepositional and possessive structures -- 6.8. Yes-no questions -- 6.9. Wh-exclamatives -- 6.10. Relative clauses -- 6.11. Summary -- Workbook section --7 A-movement -- 7.1. Overview -- 7.2. Subjects in Belfast English -- 7.3. Idioms -- 7.4. Argument structure and theta-roles -- 7.5. Unaccusative predicates -- 7.6. Passive predicates -- 7.7. Long-distance passivisation -- 7.8. Raising -- 7.9. Comparing raising and control predicates -- 7.10. Summary -- Workbook section --8 Agreement, case and movement -- 8.1. Overview -- 8.2. Agreement -- 8.3. Feature valuation -- 8.4. Uninterpretable features and feature deletion -- 8.5. Expletive (it) subjects -- 8.6. Expletive (there) subjects -- 8.7. Agreement and movement -- 8.8. EPP and agreement in control infinitives -- 8.9. EPP in defective clauses -- 8.10. Summary -- Workbook section --9 Split projections -- 9.1. Overview -- 9.2. Split CP: Force, Topic and Focus projections -- 9.3. Split CP: Finiteness projection -- 9.4. Split VPs: VP shells in ergative structures -- 9.5. Extending VP shells to other transitive structures -- 9.6. Extending VP shells to unaccusatives -- 9.7. Extending VP shells to passives -- 9.8. Extending VP shells to raising verbs -- 9.9. Transitive light verbs and accusative case assignment -- 9.10. Summary -- Workbook section -- Phases -- 10.1. Overview -- 10.2. Phases -- 10.3. Intransitive and defective clauses -- 10.4. Wh-movement through spec-CP -- 10.5. Wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses -- 10.6. Evidence for wh-movement through spec-CP -- 10.7. Evidence for wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses -- 10.8. Summary -- Workbook section.
Summary: "This textbook provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, Andrew Radford takes students through a wide range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages towards more advanced material. There is an extensive glossary of technical terms, and each chapter contains a workbook section with 'helpful hints', exercises and model answers, suitable for both class discussion and self-study. This is an abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Minimalist Syntax and the Syntax of English (also published by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcomed as a short introduction to current syntactic theory."--Publisher description.
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"Abridged version of ... Minimalist syntax"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-373) and index.

Grammar -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Universal Grammar -- 1.3. The Language Faculty -- 1.4. Principles of Universal Grammar -- 1.5. Parameters -- 1.6. Parameter-setting -- 1.7. Evidence used to set parameters -- 1.8. Summary -- Workbook section --2 Words -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Grammatical categories -- 2.3. Categorising words -- 2.4. Functional categories -- 2.5. Determiners and quantifiers -- 2.6. Pronouns -- 2.7. Auxiliaries -- 2.8. Infinitival / to -- 2.9. Complementisers -- 2.10. Labelled bracketing -- 2.11. Grammatical features -- 2.12. Summary -- Workbook section --3 Structure -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Phrases -- 3.3. Clauses -- 3.4. Clauses containing complementisers -- 3.5. Testing structure -- 3.6. Syntactic relations -- 3.7. Bare phrase structure -- 3.8. Summary -- Workbook section --4 Null constituents -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2. Null subjects -- 4.3. Null auxiliaries -- 4.4. Null T in auxiliariless finite clauses -- 4.5. Null T in bare infinitive clauses -- 4.6. Null C in finite clauses -- 4.7. Null C in non-finite clauses -- 4.8. Defective clauses -- 4.9. Case properties of subjects -- 4.10. Null determiners -- 4.11. Summary -- Workbook section --5 Head movement -- 5.1. Overview -- 5.2. T-to-C movement -- 5.3. Movement as copying and deletion -- 5.4. V-to-T movement -- 5.5. Head movement -- 5.6. HAVE /BE-raising -- 5.7. Another look at negation -- 5.8. DO-support -- 5.9. Head movement in nominals -- 5.10. Summary -- Workbook section --6 Wh-movement -- 6.1. Overview -- 6.2. Wh-questions -- 6.3. Wh-movement as copying and deletion -- 6.4. Wh-movement and EPP -- 6.5. Attract Closest Principle -- 6.6. Pied-piping and convergence -- 6.7. Pied-piping in prepositional and possessive structures -- 6.8. Yes-no questions -- 6.9. Wh-exclamatives -- 6.10. Relative clauses -- 6.11. Summary -- Workbook section --7 A-movement -- 7.1. Overview -- 7.2. Subjects in Belfast English -- 7.3. Idioms -- 7.4. Argument structure and theta-roles -- 7.5. Unaccusative predicates -- 7.6. Passive predicates -- 7.7. Long-distance passivisation -- 7.8. Raising -- 7.9. Comparing raising and control predicates -- 7.10. Summary -- Workbook section --8 Agreement, case and movement -- 8.1. Overview -- 8.2. Agreement -- 8.3. Feature valuation -- 8.4. Uninterpretable features and feature deletion -- 8.5. Expletive (it) subjects -- 8.6. Expletive (there) subjects -- 8.7. Agreement and movement -- 8.8. EPP and agreement in control infinitives -- 8.9. EPP in defective clauses -- 8.10. Summary -- Workbook section --9 Split projections -- 9.1. Overview -- 9.2. Split CP: Force, Topic and Focus projections -- 9.3. Split CP: Finiteness projection -- 9.4. Split VPs: VP shells in ergative structures -- 9.5. Extending VP shells to other transitive structures -- 9.6. Extending VP shells to unaccusatives -- 9.7. Extending VP shells to passives -- 9.8. Extending VP shells to raising verbs -- 9.9. Transitive light verbs and accusative case assignment -- 9.10. Summary -- Workbook section -- Phases -- 10.1. Overview -- 10.2. Phases -- 10.3. Intransitive and defective clauses -- 10.4. Wh-movement through spec-CP -- 10.5. Wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses -- 10.6. Evidence for wh-movement through spec-CP -- 10.7. Evidence for wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses -- 10.8. Summary -- Workbook section.

"This textbook provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, Andrew Radford takes students through a wide range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages towards more advanced material. There is an extensive glossary of technical terms, and each chapter contains a workbook section with 'helpful hints', exercises and model answers, suitable for both class discussion and self-study. This is an abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Minimalist Syntax and the Syntax of English (also published by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcomed as a short introduction to current syntactic theory."--Publisher description.

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