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Analysing English sentences : a minimalist approach / Andrew Radford.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge textbooks in linguisticsPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: xiv, 526 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521516978
  • 9780521516976
  • 0521731917
  • 9780521731911
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1361 .R327 2009
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Grammar -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Traditional grammar: categories and functions -- 1.3. Universal Grammar -- 1.4. The Language Faculty -- 1.5. Principles of Universal Grammar -- 1.6. Parameters -- 1.7. Parameter setting -- 1.8. Summary -- 1.9. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 2. Structure -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Phrases -- 2.3. Clauses -- 2.4. Specifiers -- 2.5. Intermediate and maximal projections -- 2.6. Testing structure -- 2.7. Syntactic relations -- 2.8. Bare phrase structure -- 2.9. Summary -- 2.10. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 3. Null constituents -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Null subjects -- 3.3. Null auxiliaries -- 3.4. Null T in indicative clauses -- 3.5. Null T in subjunctive clauses -- 3.6. Null T in infinitive clauses -- 3.7. Null C in finite clauses -- 3.8. Null C in infinitive clauses -- 3.9. Null complementisers and case-marking -- 3.10. Defective clauses -- 3.11. Null determiners and quantifiers -- 3.12. Summary -- 3.13. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 4. Head movement -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2. T-to-C movement -- 4.3. Movement as copying and deletion -- 4.4. V-to-T movement -- 4.5. Head movement -- 4.6. Auxiliary raising -- 4.7. Another look at negation -- 4.8. do-support -- 4.9. Head movement in nominals -- 4.10. Summary -- 4.11. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 5. Wh-movement -- 5.1. Overview -- 5.2. Wh-questions -- 5.3. Wh-movement as copying and deletion -- 5.4. Driving wh-movement and auxiliary inversion -- 5.5. Pied-piping of material in the domain of a wh-word -- 5.6. Pied-piping of a superordinate preposition -- 5.7. Long-distance wh-movement -- 5.8. Multiple wh-questions -- 5.9. Wh-subject questions -- 5.10. Exclamative and relative clauses -- 5.11. Summary -- 5.12. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 6. A-movement -- 6.1. Overview -- 6.2. Subjects in Belfast English -- 6.3. Idioms -- 6.4. Argument structure and theta-roles -- 6.5. Unaccusative predicates -- 6.6. Passive predicates -- 6.7. Long-distance passivisation -- 6.8. Raising -- 6.9. Comparing raising and control predicates -- 6.10. Summary -- 6.11. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 7. Agreement, case and A-movement -- 7.1. Overview -- 7.2. Agreement -- 7.3. Feature valuation -- 7.4. Uninterpretable features and Feature Deletion -- 7.5. Expletive (it) subjects -- 7.6. Expletive (there) subjects -- 7.7. Agreement and A-movement -- 7.8. EPP and agreement in control infinitives -- 7.9. EPP and person agreement in defective clauses -- 7.10. Defective clauses with expletive subjects -- 7.11. Summary -- 7.12. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 8. Split projections -- 8.1. Overview -- 8.2. Split CP: force, topic and focus projections -- 8.3. Split CP: finiteness projection -- 8.4. Split TP: aspect projection -- 8.5. Split TP: mood projection -- 8.6. Split VP: transitive ergative structures -- 8.7. Split VP: other transitive structures and unergatives -- 8.8. Split VP: Object Control structures -- 8.9. Split VP: unaccusative structures -- 8.10. Split VP: passive and raising structures -- 8.11. Summary -- 8.12. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 9. Phases -- 9.1. Overview -- 9.2. Phases -- 9.3. Intransitive and defective clauses -- 9.4. Phases and A-bar movement -- 9.5. A-bar movement in transitive clauses -- 9.6. Uninterpretable features and feature inheritance -- 9.7. Reflections on feature inheritance -- 9.8. Independent probes -- 9.9. Subject questions -- 9.10. More on subextraction -- 9.11. On other phases -- 9.12. Summary -- 9.13. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- Glossary and list of abbreviations -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-513) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Grammar -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Traditional grammar: categories and functions -- 1.3. Universal Grammar -- 1.4. The Language Faculty -- 1.5. Principles of Universal Grammar -- 1.6. Parameters -- 1.7. Parameter setting -- 1.8. Summary -- 1.9. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 2. Structure -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Phrases -- 2.3. Clauses -- 2.4. Specifiers -- 2.5. Intermediate and maximal projections -- 2.6. Testing structure -- 2.7. Syntactic relations -- 2.8. Bare phrase structure -- 2.9. Summary -- 2.10. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 3. Null constituents -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Null subjects -- 3.3. Null auxiliaries -- 3.4. Null T in indicative clauses -- 3.5. Null T in subjunctive clauses -- 3.6. Null T in infinitive clauses -- 3.7. Null C in finite clauses -- 3.8. Null C in infinitive clauses -- 3.9. Null complementisers and case-marking -- 3.10. Defective clauses -- 3.11. Null determiners and quantifiers -- 3.12. Summary -- 3.13. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 4. Head movement -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2. T-to-C movement -- 4.3. Movement as copying and deletion -- 4.4. V-to-T movement -- 4.5. Head movement -- 4.6. Auxiliary raising -- 4.7. Another look at negation -- 4.8. do-support -- 4.9. Head movement in nominals -- 4.10. Summary -- 4.11. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 5. Wh-movement -- 5.1. Overview -- 5.2. Wh-questions -- 5.3. Wh-movement as copying and deletion -- 5.4. Driving wh-movement and auxiliary inversion -- 5.5. Pied-piping of material in the domain of a wh-word -- 5.6. Pied-piping of a superordinate preposition -- 5.7. Long-distance wh-movement -- 5.8. Multiple wh-questions -- 5.9. Wh-subject questions -- 5.10. Exclamative and relative clauses -- 5.11. Summary -- 5.12. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 6. A-movement -- 6.1. Overview -- 6.2. Subjects in Belfast English -- 6.3. Idioms -- 6.4. Argument structure and theta-roles -- 6.5. Unaccusative predicates -- 6.6. Passive predicates -- 6.7. Long-distance passivisation -- 6.8. Raising -- 6.9. Comparing raising and control predicates -- 6.10. Summary -- 6.11. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 7. Agreement, case and A-movement -- 7.1. Overview -- 7.2. Agreement -- 7.3. Feature valuation -- 7.4. Uninterpretable features and Feature Deletion -- 7.5. Expletive (it) subjects -- 7.6. Expletive (there) subjects -- 7.7. Agreement and A-movement -- 7.8. EPP and agreement in control infinitives -- 7.9. EPP and person agreement in defective clauses -- 7.10. Defective clauses with expletive subjects -- 7.11. Summary -- 7.12. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 8. Split projections -- 8.1. Overview -- 8.2. Split CP: force, topic and focus projections -- 8.3. Split CP: finiteness projection -- 8.4. Split TP: aspect projection -- 8.5. Split TP: mood projection -- 8.6. Split VP: transitive ergative structures -- 8.7. Split VP: other transitive structures and unergatives -- 8.8. Split VP: Object Control structures -- 8.9. Split VP: unaccusative structures -- 8.10. Split VP: passive and raising structures -- 8.11. Summary -- 8.12. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- 9. Phases -- 9.1. Overview -- 9.2. Phases -- 9.3. Intransitive and defective clauses -- 9.4. Phases and A-bar movement -- 9.5. A-bar movement in transitive clauses -- 9.6. Uninterpretable features and feature inheritance -- 9.7. Reflections on feature inheritance -- 9.8. Independent probes -- 9.9. Subject questions -- 9.10. More on subextraction -- 9.11. On other phases -- 9.12. Summary -- 9.13. Bibliographical background -- Workbook section -- Glossary and list of abbreviations -- References -- Index.

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