Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - English Syntax - by Andrew Radford. An Introduction. Andrew Radford, University of Essex. PDF; Export citation. Amazon.com: English Syntax: An Introduction (753): Andrew. If you want to understand the latest developments in current syntactic theory, read it. This textbook--an abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax and the.

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Description: xi, 384 pages: illustrations; 26 cm Contents: Grammar -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Universal Grammar -- 1.3. The Language Faculty -- 1.4. Principles of Universal Grammar -- 1.5. Parameters -- 1.6.

Parameter-setting -- 1.7. Evidence used to set parameters -- 1.8. Summary -- Workbook section -- 2 Words -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Grammatical categories -- 2.3.

Categorising words -- 2.4. Functional categories -- 2.5. Determiners and quantifiers -- 2.6.

Pronouns -- 2.7. Auxiliaries -- 2.8.

Infinitival / to -- 2.9. Complementisers -- 2.10. Labelled bracketing -- 2.11. Grammatical features -- 2.12. Summary -- Workbook section -- 3 Structure -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2.

Phrases -- 3.3. Clauses -- 3.4. Clauses containing complementisers -- 3.5. Testing structure -- 3.6. Syntactic relations -- 3.7.

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Bare phrase structure -- 3.8. Summary -- Workbook section -- 4 Null constituents -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2.

Null subjects -- 4.3. Null auxiliaries -- 4.4. Null T in auxiliariless finite clauses -- 4.5. Null T in bare infinitive clauses -- 4.6. Null C in finite clauses -- 4.7. Null C in non-finite clauses -- 4.8.

Defective clauses -- 4.9. Case properties of subjects -- 4.10. Null determiners -- 4.11. Summary -- Workbook section -- 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 -- 5.6. HAVE /BE-raising -- 5.7.

Another look at negation -- 5.8. DO-support -- 5.9. Head movement in nominals -- 5.10. Summary -- Workbook section -- 6 Wh-movement -- 6.1.

Overview -- 6.2. Wh-questions -- 6.3.

Wh-movement as copying and deletion -- 6.4. Wh-movement and EPP -- 6.5. Attract Closest Principle -- 6.6. Pied-piping and convergence -- 6.7. Pied-piping in prepositional and possessive structures -- 6.8. Phantom of the opera 25th anniversary concert. Yes-no questions -- 6.9.

Wh-exclamatives -- 6.10. Relative clauses -- 6.11. Summary -- Workbook section -- 7 A-movement -- 7.1.

Overview -- 7.2. Subjects in Belfast English -- 7.3. Idioms -- 7.4. Argument structure and theta-roles -- 7.5. Unaccusative predicates -- 7.6.

Passive predicates -- 7.7. Long-distance passivisation -- 7.8. Raising -- 7.9. Comparing raising and control predicates -- 7.10. Summary -- Workbook section -- 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) subjects -- 8.6. Expletive (there) subjects -- 8.7. Agreement and movement -- 8.8. EPP and agreement in control infinitives -- 8.9.

EPP in defective clauses -- 8.10. Summary -- Workbook section -- 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. Extending VP shells to other transitive structures -- 9.6. Extending VP shells to unaccusatives -- 9.7. Extending VP shells to passives -- 9.8. Extending VP shells to raising verbs -- 9.9.