Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments xlvii
Part 1 Preliminaries 1
1 Generative Grammar 3
2 Parts of Speech 43
3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 67
4 Structural Relations 113
5 Binding Theory 141
Part 2 The Base 159
6 X-bar Theory 161
7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 213
8 Constraining X-bar: Theta Theory 243
9 Theta Grids and Functional Categories 265
Part 3 Movement 295
10 Head-to-Head Movement 297
11 DP Movement 331
12 Wh-movement and Locality Constraints 365
13 A Unified Theory of Movement 395
Part 4 Advanced Topics 411
14 Ditransitives 413
15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 429
16 Ellipsis 453
17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 471
18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-conigurationality 483
19 Merge 499
Conclusions and Directions for Further Study 509
References 511
Index 521