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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The scientific study of language | |
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| The competence/performance distinction | |
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| Some simple approaches to grammaticality judgements | |
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| Language acquisition and universal grammar | |
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| Description and explanation: the case of structure-dependent rules | |
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| Introduction to the book | |
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| Phrase Structure and Constituency | |
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| A simple starting point | |
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| Constituency | |
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| The elements of a phrase-structure tree and their relations | |
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| Are two levels enough? | |
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| Constituency tests: more applications and case studies | |
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| X'-Theory and Functional Categories | |
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| Introduction to X'-Theory | |
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| Inside the XP | |
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| Functional categories | |
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| Coordination and X'-Theory | |
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| Head-initial and head-final languages | |
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| q-Theory and Case Theory | |
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| An introduction to argument structure | |
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| q-roles | |
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| Morphological case | |
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| Morphological case vs abstract case | |
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| Exceptional case marking | |
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| The Case Filter | |
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| The visibility condition: an improvement on the Case Filter? | |
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| Introduction to Binding Theory | |
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| Anaphors and Principle A | |
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| Pronouns and Principle B | |
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| R-expressions and Principle C | |
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| Movement and Chains | |
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| Transformations: an introduction | |
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| Wh-movement: subjacency and successive cyciicity | |
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| More evidence for successive cyciicity | |
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| Subjacency and the analysis of relative clauses | |
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| More transformations: passive and raising | |
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| Levels of application of principles | |
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| Chains | |
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| Logical Form | |
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| Wh-movement in the LF component | |
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| Quantifier raising: another LF transformation | |
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| LF A-movement: expletive replacement | |
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| Empty Categories and their Constraint | |
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| Binding Theory: a recap and (minor) reformulation | |
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| The Binding Theory status of DP-trace | |
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| The Binding Theory status of wh-trace | |
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| The search for null pronouns | |
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| [+a, +p] revealed! | |
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| Interlude: a note on Plato's Problem | |
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| The Empty Category Principle | |
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| From government to proper government | |
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| Subjacency vs the ECP | |
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| Adjuncts and antecedent government | |
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| Summary of the ECP | |
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| Relativized minimality: an introduction | |
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| Towards the Minimalist Program: Clause Structure Revisited | |
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| The VP-internal subject hypothesis | |
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| More on the VP: double object verbs, VP-shells and light verbs | |
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| vP and Accusative Case assignment | |
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| From IP to TP | |
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| Rizzi (1997) and the 'cartographic' approach to CP | |
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| Towards the Minimalist Program: Movement Revisited | |
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| The copy theory of movement | |
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| A movement analysis of control | |
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| Introduction to verb movement | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |