The Syntax Workbook: A Companion to Carnie's Syntax

ISBN-13: 9781119569299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Andrew Carnie

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments viiPart 1 Preliminaries 11 Generative Grammar 32 Parts of Speech 113 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 214 Structural Relations 615 Binding Theory 71Part 2 The Base 796 X-bar Theory 817 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 1378 Constraining X-bar: Theta Theory 1659 Theta Grids and Functional Categories 175Part 3 Movement 18510 Head-to-Head Movement 18711 DP Movement 19912 Wh-movement and Locality Constraints 21713 A Unified Theory of Movement 235Part 4 Advanced Topics 23914 Ditransitives 24115 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 25116 Ellipsis 26317 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 26918 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-configurationality 27119 Merge 275References 279Index 281

O autorze

Andrew Carnie is Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Dean of the Graduate College, and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA. He specializes in generative syntactic theory with an emphasis on constituency, VSO languages, copular constructions, and the Celtic Languages. He is the author of numerous publications, including Constituent Structure, Modern Syntax, and Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition, and is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Syntax.