Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments xlvii

Part 1 Preliminaries 1

1 Generative Grammar 3

2 Parts of Speech 43

3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 67

4 Structural Relations 113

5 Binding Theory 141

Part 2 The Base 159

6 X-bar Theory 161

7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 213

8 Constraining X-bar: Theta Theory 243

9 Theta Grids and Functional Categories 265

Part 3 Movement 295

10 Head-to-Head Movement 297

11 DP Movement 331

12 Wh-movement and Locality Constraints 365

13 A Unified Theory of Movement 395

Part 4 Advanced Topics 411

14 Ditransitives 413

15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 429

16 Ellipsis 453

17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 471

18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-conigurationality 483

19 Merge 499

Conclusions and Directions for Further Study 509

References 511

Index 521