Radford, Andrew,

Analysing English sentences : a minimalist approach / Andrew Radford. - xiv, 526 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics . - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-513) and index.

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

0521516978 9780521516976 0521731917 9780521731911

2008038896


English language--Syntax.
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax

PE1361 / .R327 2009

425