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Prologue ix Acknowledgments xiv Goals Overview 1 (1) Grammatical competence 1 (6) Basic concepts and fundamental 7 (10) misconceptions Competence as infinite rule-governed 17 (6) creativity Discovering the rules 23 (4) Levels of adequacy 27 (3) Constraining grammars 30 (4) Constraints, universals, and acquisition 34 (5) Markedness and Core Grammar 39 (6) Summary 45 (5) Exercises 46 (4) Structure Overview 50 (1) Intuitions about Structure 50 (6) Word-level categories 56 (8) Phrasal categories: nonsyntactic evidence 64 (5) Phrasal categories: distributional evidence 69 (6) Phrasal categories: other syntactic evidence 75 (9) Words used as Phrases 84 (5) Testing the Structure 89 (16) Summary 105(4) Exercises 105(4) Phrase-markers Overview 109(1) The nature of Phrase-markers 109(5) C-command 114(6) Constraining Phrase-markers 120(2) Generating Phrase-markers 122(10) Another look at categories 132(5) Conflating categories 137(8) The nature of categories 145(11) Summary 156(11) Exercises 157(10) Noun Phrases Overview 167(1) Small nominal phrases 167(7) Evidence for N-bar 174(1) Complements and Adjuncts 175(4) Optional constituents of the Noun Phrase 179(8) More differences between Complements and 187(9) Adjuncts Nominal premodifiers 196(12) Adjectival premodifiers 208(8) Summary 216(10) Exercises 217(9) Other Phrases Overview 226(4) Verb Phrases 230(11) Adjectival Phrases 241(5) Prepositional Phrases 246(7) Cross-categorial structural symmetry 253(5) Constraining Categorial Rules 258(6) Generalising Categorial Rules 264(7) Eliminating Categorial Rules 271(8) Summary 279(8) Exercises 280(7) Clauses Overview 287(1) Finite and nonfinite Clauses 287(5) Constituent structure of Clauses 292(3) Structure of Main Clauses 295(8) Internal structure of S 303(10) Clauses with empty Subjects 313(4) Exceptional Clauses 317(7) Small Clauses 324(7) Summary 331(6) Exercises 332(5) The Lexicon Overview 337(1) Categorial information 337(2) Subcategorisation 339(5) Prepositional Complements 344(5) Complement order 349(4) Clausal Complements 353(8) Subcategorising Adjectives, Nouns, and 361(5) Prepositions Eliminating redundancy 366(3) Selection Restrictions 369(3) Thematic relations 372(6) Correlating Thematic and Syntactic Structure 378(6) Theta-marking of Subjects 384(4) Selection Restrictions and Thematic 388(2) Structure Constraints on Theta-marking 390(2) Summary 392(9) Exercises 395(6) Transformations Overview 401(1) V Movement 401(10) I Movement 411(9) NP Movement in passive structures 420(15) NP Movement in Raising structures 435(11) NP Movement in ergative and middle 446(2) structures Extraposition 448(8) Summary 456(6) Exercises 457(5) WH Movement Overview 462(1) Question types 462(4) Syntactic arguments 466(5) Morphological arguments 471(3) Phonological arguments 474(2) Semantic arguments 476(4) WH Movement in Relative Clauses 480(12) Other wh-constructions 492(2) Targets for WH Movement 494(5) The landing-site for moved wh-phrases 499(9) Re-examining the status of S 508(7) Re-examining the status of Small Clauses 515(5) Summary 520(7) Exercises 521(6) Alpha Movement Overview 527(1) Other movement rules 527(7) Alpha Movement 534(4) Structure-preserving Principle 538(7) Explaining the Structure-preserving 545(8) Principle Traces 553(9) C-command condition on Traces 562(4) Bounding 566(10) Rule interaction 576(6) Summary 582(12) Exercises 585(9) Bibliographical background 594(12) Bibliography 606(16) Index 622