Description
This book is part of the Cambridge University Press "A coursebook" series, which uses a question/answer format for the self-study of linguistics. The theory presented in this book is NOT minimalist syntax. Nor is it any other major theory of syntax, instead the theoretical perspective is one that takes good ideas from several different theories, including Government and Binding Theory, Minimalism, and HPSG.
PLEASE NOTE: Despite its title this book is NOT a course book to go along with my Blackwell Syntax Text book!! The assumptions of the two books are totally incompatible and they should not be used together under any circumstance.
Draft
Below are draft PDFs of the first 16 Units of this book. Comments are very welcome!1. Defining Syntax
2. Syntactic Data
3. Hypotheses: Rules.
2. CATEGORIES AND SUBCATEGORIES
4. Words and lexical categories
5. Functional categories
6. Pronouns
7. Subcategories of Nouns
8. Auxiliaries & Modals
9. Subcategories of Verbs
10. Constituency
11. Complements
12. Complements: A Case Study
13. Specifiers of VP and TP
14. Specifiers of NP, DP
15. Tagging (chapter fragment)
16. Adjuncts (chapter fragment)
MUCH MORE TO COME!!
Ordering Information:
- coming soon