Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Grammatical Foundations: Words Table of Contents vii


• 1 Language, Grammar and Linguistic Theory


• 2 Word Categories
  
  
  • 2.1 The Lexicon
  
  
  • 2.2 Categories
  
  
  • 2.3 Morphological criteria for determining category
  
  
  • 2.4 Distribution
  
  
  
  


• 3 A Typology of Word Categories
  
  
  • 3.1 Categorial features
  
  
  • 3.2 Predicates and arguments
  
  
  • 3.3 Grammatical aspects of meaning
  
  
  • 3.4 The Thematic categories
  
  
  • 3.5 Functional Categories
  
  
  • 3.6 Functionally underspecified categories
  
  
  
  


• Check Questions


• Test your knowledge


• Chapter 2 Grammatical Foundations: Structure


• 1 Structure
  
  
  • 1.1 The building blocks of sentences
  
  
  • 1.2 Phrases
  
  
  • 1.3 Sentences within phrases
  
  
  • 1.4 Structural positions
  
  
  • 1.5 Structural terminology
  
  
  • 1.6 Labels
  
  
  • 1.7 Rules
  
  
  
  


• 2 Grammatical Functions
  
  
  • 2.1 The subject
  
  
  • 2.2 The object
  
  
  • 2.3 Indirect object
  
  
  
  


• 3 Testing for Structure
  
  
  • 3.1 Substitution
  
  
  • 3.2 Movement
  
  
  • 3.3 Coordination
  
  
  • 3.4 Single-word phrases
  
  
  
  


• Check Questions


• Test your knowledge


• Chapter 3 Basic Concepts of Syntactic Theory viii


• 1 X-bar Theory
  
  
  • 1.1 Rewrite rules and some terminology
  
  
  • 1.2 Endocentricity
  
  
  • 1.3 Heads and Complements
  
  
  • 1.4 Specifiers
  
  
  • 1.5 Adjuncts
  
  
  • 1.6 Summary
  
  
  
  


• 2 Theoretical Aspects of Movement
  
  
  • 2.1 Move
    
  
  
  • 2.2 D-structure and S-structure
  
  
  • 2.3 Traces
  
  
  • 2.4 Locality Restrictions on movement
  
  
  
  


• 3 Conclusion


• Check Questions


• Test your knowledge


• Chapter 4 The Determiner Phrase


• 1 Why the Noun is not the Head of the DP


• 2 The Internal Structure of the DP
  
  
  • 2.1 Determiners and Complements
  
  
  • 2.2 The Specifier of the DP
  
  
  • 2.3 Adjunction within the DP
  
  
  
  


• 3 Multiple Determiners


• 4 Conclusion


• Check Questions


• Test your knowledge


• Chapter 5 Verb Phrases


• 1 Event Structure and Aspect


• 2 Verb Types
  
  
  • 2.1 Unaccusative verbs
  
  
  • 2.2 Light verbs
  
  
  • 2.3 Ergative verbs
  
  
  • 2.4 Transitive verbs
  
  
  • 2.5 Intransitive verbs
  
  
  • 2.6 Multiple complement verbs
  
  
  • 2.7 Phrasal verbs
  
  
  • 2.8 Verbs with clausal complements
  
  
  • 2.9 Summary
  
  
  
  


• 3 Aspectual Auxiliary Verbs
  
  
  • 3.1 The auxiliary as a dummy
  
  
  • 3.2 The nature of the aspectual morpheme
  
  
  
  


• 4 Adverbs, PPs and Clausal modifiers
  
  
  • 4.1 Adverbs
  
  
  • 4.2 PP modifiers
  
  
  • 4.3 Clausal modifiers
  
  
  
  


• 5 Conclusion


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• Chapter 6 Inflectional Phrases ix


• 1 The structure of IP


• 2 The syntax of inflection
  
  
  • 2.1 Inserting auxiliaries into I
  
  
  • 2.2 Do-insertion
  
  
  • 2.3 Tense and Agreement
  
  
  • 2.4 Movement to tense and I
  
  
  
  


• 3 Movement to Spec IP


• 4 Adjunction within IP


• 5 Conclusion


• Check Questions


• Test your knowledge


• Chapter 7 Complementiser Phrases


• 1 The structure of CP


• 2 The Clause as CP


• 3 Interrogative CPs
  
  
  • 3.1 Basic positions within the CP
  
  
  • 3.2 Wh-movement
  
  
  • 3.3 Inversion
  
  
  • 3.4 The interaction between wh-movement and inversion
  
  
  • 3.5 Subject questions
  
  
  
  


• 4 Relative Clauses
  
  
  • 4.1 The position of the relative clause inside the NP
  
  
  • 4.2 A comparison between relative and interrogative clauses
  
  
  
  


• 5 Other fronting movements
  
  
  • 5.1 Topicalisation
  
  
  • 5.2 Focus fronting
  
  
  • 5.3 Negative fronting
  
  
  
  


• 6 Conclusion


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• Chapter 8 The Syntax of Non-Finite Clauses


• 1 Exceptional and Small Clauses
  
  
  • 1.1 Clauses without CP
  
  
  • 1.2 Clauses without IP
  
  
  
  


• 2 Raising and Control
  
  
  • 2.1 Raising
  
  
  • 2.2 Control
  
  
  
  


• 3 The Gerund


• 4 Conclusion


• Check questions


• Test your knowledge


• Suggested Answers and Hints x


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• Bibliography


• Index