TY - BOOK AU - Radford,Andrew TI - Analysing English sentences: a minimalist approach T2 - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics SN - 0521516978 AV - PE1361 .R327 2009 U1 - 425 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - English language KW - Syntax KW - Minimalist theory (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general N1 - 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 ER -