基本説明
An all-new workbook to accompany the bestselling syntax textbook by Andrew Carnie, published to coincide with the release of the third edition, features over 120 sample problem sets designed to give students greater experience of analyzing syntactic structure.
Full Description
The Syntax Workbook was written as a response to the students and instructors who, over the years, have requested more problem sets that give greater experience in analyzing syntactic structure. Aligned chapter-by-chapter with Carnie s bestselling textbook, this workbook provides over 120 new exercises on all of the major topics in generative syntax. * An all-new workbook to accompany the bestselling syntax textbook, Syntax: A Generative Introduction, which answers the need for a practical text in this field * Features over 120 problem sets with answers, designed to give students greater experience of analyzing syntactic structure * Exercises and topics covered includes phrase structure, the lexicon, Case theory, ellipsis, auxiliaries, movement, covert movement, locality conditions, VP shells, and control * Supported by expanded online
Contents
Introduction: Welcome 1 Part 1 Preliminaries 3 1 Generative Grammar 5 2 Parts of Speech 13 3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 20 4 Structural Relations 39 5 Binding Theory 46 Part 2 The Base 51 6 X-bar Theory 53 7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 72 8 Constraining X-bar Theory: Theta Theory 84 9 Auxiliaries and Functional Categories 93 Part 3 Movement 107 10 Head-to-Head Movement 109 11 DP Movement 117 12 Wh -movement and Locality Constraints 127 13 A Unified Theory of Movement 145 Part 4 Advanced Topics 149 14 Expanded VPs 151 15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 157 16 Ellipsis 169 17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 174 18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-configurationality 177 References 180 Index 182
