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| Preface for Teachers | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Setting Out | |
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| Language as a Natural Object | |
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| The Terrain Ahead | |
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| What Is Linguistics? | |
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| Leading Questions | |
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| Studying Knowledge of Language | |
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| A Talking Analogy | |
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| Universal Grammar | |
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| What Is Syntax About? | |
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| Review | |
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| Dividing Up the Problem Area | |
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| Internal Structure | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Grammars as Theories | |
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| Introducing Phrase Structure Rules | |
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| Review | |
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| Generating Sentences | |
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| Phrase Structure Rules | |
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| Tree Diagrams and Derivations | |
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| Grammars | |
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| Review | |
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| Grammars as Theories | |
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| The Data of Syntax | |
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| Formulating a Grammar | |
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| Working with Grammars | |
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| Review | |
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| Testing a Grammar | |
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| Revising a Grammar | |
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| Extending a Grammar | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Choosing between Theories | |
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| Comparing Rules and Theories | |
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| Review | |
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| Comparing Alternative Rules | |
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| Equivalent Theories | |
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| Comparing Equivalent Theories | |
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| Constituency and Constituency Tests | |
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| Review | |
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| More on Conjunction | |
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| Other Constituency Tests | |
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| Trees and Tree Relations | |
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| Review | |
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| More about Trees | |
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| Some Distributional Facts | |
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| C-Command Phenomena as Constituency Tests | |
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| Determining Category | |
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| Review | |
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| Determining Category | |
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| The Category of Words | |
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| The Category of Phrases | |
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| Revising, Refining, and Reconsidering | |
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| Review | |
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| Interpreting Test Results | |
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| More on Revising Grammars | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Arguing for a Theory | |
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| Constructing Arguments I | |
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| Review | |
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| Giving an Argument | |
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| Four Steps of an Argument and Their Relations | |
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| Convergent Evidence | |
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| Nonconvergent Evidence | |
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| Coming Up With the Parts of an Argument | |
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| Constructing Arguments II | |
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| Review | |
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| Choosing between Alternative Structures | |
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| Missing Principle | |
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| Missing Data Summary and Principle | |
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| Missing Data Summary, Principle, and Conclusion I | |
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| Missing Data Summary, Principle, and Conclusion II | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Searching for Explanation | |
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| Structural Formulas | |
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| Explaining Phrase Markers? | |
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| Introducing the Lexicon | |
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| Review | |
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| Categories and Subcategories | |
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| The Lexicon | |
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| Features, Heads, and Phrases | |
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| Review | |
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| Expanding Our Feature Set | |
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| Where Does a Phrase Get Its Features? | |
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| Heads and Phrases | |
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| Verbal Complements and Adjuncts | |
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| Review | |
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| Complements | |
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| Adjuncts | |
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| Distinguishing Complements and Adjuncts | |
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| Review | |
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| Complement or Adjunct? | |
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| Three Diagnostics | |
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| Attaching Complements | |
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| Review | |
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| Complements and Constituency | |
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| A Locality Constraint | |
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| Attaching Adjuncts | |
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| Review | |
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| An Apparent Contradiction | |
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| Adjunction of Modifiers | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Following the Consequences | |
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| Complement Sentences I | |
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| Review | |
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| Sentence Forms | |
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| Sentences inside Sentences | |
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| Selection for Sentence Type | |
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| Complement Sentences II | |
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| Review | |
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| Finite versus Nonfinite Clauses | |
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| Selection for Finiteness | |
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| Invisible Lexical Items | |
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| Review | |
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| Subjectless Infinitives and PRO | |
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| “Invisible Elements”: Expect versus Persuade | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| NP Structure | |
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| Review | |
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| Sentencelike NPs | |
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| Complements of N | |
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| Adjuncts in NP | |
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| PRO in NP | |
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| X-Bar Theory | |
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| Review | |
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| More on NP - TP | |
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| The Structure of PP | |
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| Abstracting a Common Shape | |
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| Powerful Implications! | |
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| Simple Rules versus Complex Structures | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Expanding and Constraining the Theory | |
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| Interrogatives and Movement | |
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| Review | |
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| The Problem of Constituent Interrogatives | |
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| Wh -Movement | |
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| Further Evidence for Movement | |
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| More on Wh -Movement | |
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| Review | |
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| Movement in General | |
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| Movement in CP | |
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| Matrix Interrogatives | |
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| Constraints on Movement I | |
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| Review | |
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| “Long-Distance” Movement | |
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| Stepwise Movement | |
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| The Principle of the Strict Cycle | |
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| Constraints on Movement II | |
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| Review | |
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| NP Domains | |
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| Movement and Complete Sentences | |
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| Movement and Nominals | |
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| The Phase Principle | |
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| Parametric Variation | |
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| Review | |
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| Crosslinguistic Variation in Movement | |
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| “Parameterizing” Principles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Reference | |
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| Index | |