最简句法入门：探究英语的结构

Preface

Grammar

1.1 Overview

1.2 Traditional grammar

1.3 Universal Grammar

1.4 The Language Faculty

1.5 Principles of Universal Grammar

1.6 Parameters

1.7 Parameter-setting

1.8 Evidence used to set parameters

1.9 Summary

Workbook section 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

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Structure

3.1 Overview

3.2 Phrases

3.3 Clauses

3.4 Specifiers

3.5 Intermediate and maximal projections

3.6 Testing structure

3.7 Syntactic relations

3.8 Bare phrase structure

3.9 Summary

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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

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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 Auxiliary raising

5.7 Another look at negation

5.8 DO-support

5.9 Head movement in nominals

5.10 Summary

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6 Wh-movement

6.1 Overview

6.2 Wh-questions

6.3 Wh-movement as a copying operation

6.4 Wh-movement, EPP and the Attract Closest Prir~ciple

6.5 Explaining what moves where

6.6 Wh-subject questions

6.7 Pied-piping

6.8 Yes-no questions

6.9 Wh-exclamatives

6.10 Relative clauses

6.11 That-relatives

6.12 Summary

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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

7.6 Unaccusative predicates

7.7 Passive predicates

7.8 Long-distance passivisation

7.9 Raising

7.10 Comparing raising and control predicates

7.11 Summary

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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 A-movement

8.8 EPP in control infinitives

8.9 EPP in other infinitives

8.10 Summary

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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

9.6 VP shells in transitive, unergative, unaccusative, raising and locative inversion structures

9.7 Transitive light verbs and accusative case assignment

9.8 Evidence for a further projection in transitive verb phrases

9.9 Extending the shell analysis to nominals

9.10 Summary

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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

10.6 Evidence for successive-cyclic wh-movement through spec-CP

10.7 Evidence for wh-movement through spec-vP in transitive clauses

10.8 The role of phases in lexical selection

10.9 Questions about phases

10.10 The nature of A-bar movement

10.11 Summary

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Glossary and list of abbreviations

References

Index

《最简句法入门：探究英语的结构》清晰，详尽地介绍了建立在乔姆斯基最简方案理论基础上的一些最新句法理论。作为句法学理论和英语句法教材，《最简句法入门：探究英语的结构》内容丰富、由浅入深、可读性强，每章结束后都配有练习题供学生深入分析英语短语及名子，书中还提供了一个内容丰富的术语词汇表。即便是对句法理论了解不的读者亦可使用《最简句法入门：探究英语的结构》。
作者安德鲁·雷德福是埃塞克斯大学教授。他已经在剑桥大学出版社出版了六部句法学专著，并发表了大量句法学和句法学习得方面的文章。