Simpler Syntax

Name: Simpler Syntax
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Intro
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: CUTTING SYNTAX DOWN TO SIZE
1 Why Simpler Syntax?
1.1 Different notions of simplicity
1.2 A sample argument: Bare Argument Ellipsis
1.3 The goals of linguistic theory
1.4 The architecture of the grammar
1.5 The continuum from words to rules
''syntactic nuts'' and the core/periphery distinction
1.6 Core grammar and its relation to UG
2 How Did We Get Here? Principles and Early History of Mainstream Syntax
2.1 Principles of argumentation in mainstream syntax
2.2 Syntactic Structures through early PPT: transformational passive and its consequences
3 Later History of Mainstream Syntax
3.1 Late PPT: UTAH, Head Movement, and beyond
3.2 The Minimalist Program
3.3 Uniformity entails Generative Semantics
3.4 The alternative
4 Flat Structure
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Overview of syntactic structure
4.3 In-principle arguments for binary branching
4.4 Empirical arguments for right-branching
4.5 Arguments for left-branching
4.6 NP structure
4.7 A sketch of English phrase structure
PART II: THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE
5 Basic Clause Structure
5.1 Looking ahead
5.2 Overview of CS
5.3 Carving out the words and morphemes
5.4 Default principles for determining syntactic embedding
5.5 Constraining (most of) linear order
5.6 What a verb can say about its arguments
5.7 Hierarchical linking of direct NP arguments
6 The Grammatical Function Tier
6.1 The need for grammatical functions
6.2 The Grammatical Function tier and Raising
6.3 Passive
6.4 Binding of reflexives in the GF-tier
6.5 Bells and whistles
6.6 Concluding remarks
7 Bare Argument Ellipsis and its Relatives
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Nonsentential utterance types
7.3 Problems for a syntactic account of bare argument ellipsis
7.4 Reasons to believe syntax is involved in BAE
7.5 The generalizations behind indirect licensing
7.6 A mechanism for indirect licensing
7.7 Sluicing and sluice-stranding
7.8 Gapping
8 VP Ellipsis and its Relatives
8.1 Do X anaphora, it happen anaphora, VP ellipsis, pseudo-gapping, and one-anaphora
8.2 Some arguments that VP ellipsis must be syntactic deletion
8.3 Summary of Chapters 7 and 8
9 Discontinuous Dependencies
9.1 There is no A'-movement
9.2 Wh-questions
9.3 Other wh-constructions
9.4 Island constraints
9.5 Tough movement
9.6 Other candidates for movement
9.7 Summary
PART III: BINDING AND CONTROL
10 Mme Tussaud meets the Binding Theory
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The problem
10.3 Interaction of the statue rule with binding
10.4 The Pragmatic Option
10.5 The Syntactic Option
10.6 The Interface Option
10.7 Reconceiving binding theory
10.8 Formalizing and generalizing parts of Principle A[sub(CS)]
11 Something else for the Binding Theory
11.1 Introduction
11.2 How else behaves
11.3 Contra-indexing and extended anaphora
11.4 Else is not other than a in syntax
11.5 Summary
12 The Semantic Basis of Control in English
12.1 Introduction
12.2 A typology of control
12.3 Actional complements
12.4 Unique control by objects and by subjects
12.5 Toward a semantically based theory of unique control
12.6 Coercion that shifts control
12.7 Partial control and the joint intention coercion
12.8 Further problems
12.9 Conclusions
PART IV: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CLAUSES
13 Semantic Subordination Despite Syntactic Coordination
13.1 Introduction
13.2 A conditional reading of and
13.3 LS-and is not a subordinating conjunction
13.4 Interactions with binding
13.5 Extraction
13.6 Inversion and extraction within main clause S-and[sub(LS)]-S
13.7 Asymmetric coordination ? semantic subordination
13.8 Summary
14 The View from the Periphery: The English Comparative Correlative
14.1 Introduction to the CC construction
14.2 Evidence for the left-subordinate hypothesis
14.3 Evidence for the paratactic hypothesis
14.4 The internal structure of CC-clauses
14.5 Binding
14.6 Extraction from CC
14.7 Summary and consequences for UG
15 What Is Language Like? Moving On
15.1 Where have we gotten?
15.2 Special properties of the present approach
15.3 Two aesthetics
15.4 Where do we go from here?
References
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