Freidin, Robert 　著

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Part 1 The study of syntax: introduction to the study of syntax; thepsychological interpretation of grammar. Part 2 Introduction to formalgrammar: phrase structure analysis; lexical insertion; a theory of phrasestructure; the transformational structure of NP; appendix - phrase structuregrammar - a formal characterization. Part 3 Recursion, movement, andbounding: wh-movement and the structure of sentential constructions;syntactic islands; successive cyclic movement and conditions on rules andrepresentations; appendices - a brief historical comment on islandconstraints, a comment on the theory of transformations. Part 4 The Englishverbal auxiliary system: general properties of the verbal auxiliary system; atransformational analysis of the verbal auxiliary system (1); the constituentstructure of the verbal string; a transformational analysis of the verbalauxiliary system (2) - interrogative and negative sentences; the auxiliary"do". Part 5 Infinitivals, case and government: case assignment; caseassignment and the subject of infinitival constructions; lexical casephenomena. Part 6 The analysis of empty categories: subject traces in finiteclauses; empty categories and thematic structure; alternative conditions onNP-movement; the PRO/trace distinction. Part 7 Binding theory: lexicalanaphors; pronouns. Part 8 Extensions of binding theory: the assignment ofindices; binding theory and levels of representation; binding theory andempty categories; in lieu of a conclusion; appendices - two types ofcrossover, the binding theoretic approach to empty categories.