Minimalist syntax : exploring the structure of English / Andrew, Radford.

Contents

1 : Grammer
1.1 Overview
1.2 Trditional Grammar
1.3 Universal Grammar
1.4 The language faculty
1.5 Principles of universal grammar
Etc.

2 : Words
2.1 Overview
2.2 Grammatical categories
2.3 Categorising words
2.4 Functional categories
2.5 Determiners and quantifiers
Etc.

3 : Structure
3.1 Overview
3.2 Phrases
3.3 Clauses
3.4 Specifiers
3.5 Intermediate and maximal projections
Etc.

4 : Null Constituents
4.1 Overview
4.2 Null subjects
4.3 Null auxilliaries
4.4 Null T in auxilliariless finite clauses
4.5 Null T in finite clauses
Etc.

5 : Head Movement
5.1 Overview
5.2 T-to-C movement
5.3 Movement as copying and deletion
5.4 V-to-T movement
5.5 Head movement
Etc.

6 : Wh-movement
6.1 Overview
6.2 Whi questions
6.3 Wh-movement as a copying operation
6.4 Wh-movement, EPP and the attract closest principle
6.45 Explaining what moves where
Etc.

7 : A-movement
7.1 Overview
7.2 Subjects in belfast English
7.3 Quotatives and Idioms
7.4 Argument structure
7.5 Thematic roles
Etc.

8 : Agreement, case and movement
8.1 Overview
8.2 Agreement
8.3 Feature valuation
8.4 Uninterpretable features and feature-deletion
8.5 Expletive ''it'' subject
Etc.

9 : Split Projections
9.1 Overview
9.2 Split CP : Force, Topic and Focus projections
9.3 Split CP : Finiteness projection
9.4 Split VPS: VP shells in ergative structures
9.5 VP shells in resultative, double-object and object-control structures
Etc.

10 : Phases
10.1 Overview
10.2 Phases
10.3 Intransitive and defective clauses
10.4 Wh-movement through spec-CP
10.5 Wh-movement through spec-vp in transitive clauses
Etc.

Includes: Glossary p. 432-484, bibliographical references p. 485-497 and index p. 498-512