English Syntax - Edelstein, Elspeth

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Résumé :
1 Got Grammar?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Grammaticality
1.2.1 Determining Grammaticality
1.3 What is Syntax?
1.4 What is Minimalism?
1.5 Variation in English
1.6 Further Reading
1.7 Exercises
2 Phrase Structure
2.1 C-Selection & Merge
2.2 Adjuncts & Specifiers
2.3 Talking About Trees
2.4 What Happened to X-Bar?
2.5 Syntactic Generation
2.6 S-selection
2.6.1 Thematic Roles
2.6.2 Other Types of Selection?
2.7 Conclusion
2.8 Further Reading
2.9 Exercises
3 Lexical Verbs
3.1 Ditransitive and Double Object verbs
3.1.1 Variation in Theta-Role Assignment Again
3.2 Transitive and Intransitive verbs
3.3 Back to give back
3.3.1 Give it you back
3.4 Conclusion
3.5 Further Reading
3.6 Exercises
4 Auxiliary verbs and Functional Structure
4.1 Passive auxiliaries
4.2 Whither the subject?
4.2.1 Evidence for Subject Movement
4.2.2 What happened to traces?
4.3 Get-passives
4.4 Other auxiliaries
4.4.1 Multiple Modals
4.5 Conclusion
4.6 Further Reading
4.7 Exercises
5 Embedded Clauses and Questions
5.1 Embedded Clauses
5.1.1 Embedded Questions
5.2 Questions
5.2.1 Lexical Be, Have and Do
5.2.2 Wh-Questions
5.2.3 Multi-Clausal Questions
5.3 Relative Clauses
5.4 Conclusion
5.5 Further Reading
5.6 Exercises
6 Negation
6.1 Not and -n't
6.1.1 Negation and Modality
6.2 Do-Support with Negation
6.3 Negation in Questions
6.4 Negation in Scottish English
6.5 Negative Polarity Items
6.6 Neg-Raising
6.7 Negative Concord
6.8 Conclusion
6.9 Further Reading
6.10 Exercises
7 Non-Finite Complements
7.1 Non-Finite Complements
7.1.1 Raising verbs
7.1.2 Control verbs
7.1.3 Accusativus Cum Infinitivo
7.2 Is PRO (Un)-Minimalist?
7.2.1 Raising and Floating Quantifiers
7.3 Other Verbal Complements
7.3.1 Concealed and Alternative Embedded Passives
7.4 Conclusion
7.5 Further Reading
7.6 Exercises
8 Nouns and Determiners
8.1 The DP Hypothesis
8.1.1 Reevaluating the DP Hypothesis
8.1.2 Subcategorisation
8.2 Reflexive pronouns
8.2.1 Unbound and Long-Distance Reflexives
8.3 Coordinated pronouns
8.4 Conclusion
8.5 Further Reading
8.6 Exercises
9 Adjectives and Adverbs
9.1 Rethinking Structure
9.1.1 Specifiers and Adjuncts
9.1.2 Selection of Dependents
9.2 Adjectives
9.2.1 Attributive Adjective Order
9.3 Adverb Order
9.4 Adverb Placement: Evidence from Adverb Climbing
9.5 Sentence-Final Adverbs
9.6 Post-Verbal Adverbs
9.6.1 Are Adjectives and Adverbs the Same Thing?
9.7 Summing up Adverb Placement and Order
9.8 Conclusion
9.9 Further Reading
9.10 Exercises
10 Minimalism and Microvariation
10.1 Sources of Data
10.2 Sources of Variation
10.3 Intraspeaker Variation
10.4 Conclusion
10.5 Further Reading
Bibliography


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Biographie:
Elspeth Edelstein is a Lecturer and the Undergraduate Programme Convenor in Language and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen...

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Elspeth Edelstein is a Lecturer and the Undergraduate Programme Convenor in Language and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen...