Further reading 293(Barry J. Blake, 2001), Definiteness (Chris Lyons, 1999), Gender (Greville Corbett,
1991), Mood and Modality (F. R. Palmer, 2001), Number (Greville Corbett, 2000),
Person (Anna Siewierska, 2001), and Te nse (Bernard Comrie, 1985), all of which
will be of interest in comparing the grammar of English with that of other
languages.
This book treats auxiliaries as heads, not dependents, rejecting the dependent
auxiliary analysis implicit in the work of both most traditional grammarians and
also most generative grammarians (with some dissenters, such as J. R. Ross and
J. D. McCawley). CGEL, pp. 1209-20, offers detailed justification. The generative
literature is reviewed by Gerald Gazdar et aI., 'Auxiliaries and related phenomena
in a restrictive theory of grammar' (Language 58 (1982): 591-638).
With regard to adjective and adverb phrase structure (Ch. 6), as well as various
other topics, we drew on Ray Jackendoff's monograph X Syntax (MIT Press, 1977),
though we discovered he was wrong about whether adverbs take complements (quite
a few do); and our analysis of prepositions (Ch. 7) was much influenced by Joseph E.
Emonds, 'Evidence that indirect object movement is a structure-preserving rule'
(Foundations of Language 8 (1972): 546-61) and Ray S. Jackendoff, 'The base rules
for prepositional phrases' (in S. R. Anderson & P. Kiparsky (eds.), A FestschriJt fo r
Morris Halle, 345-56; New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1973). Both were
interestingly foreshadowed by Jespersen (The Philosophy of Grammar, 87-90; Lon
don: AlIen & Unwin, 1924).
Our description of negation (Ch. 8) owes a great deal to three works: Edward
Klima ('Negation in English', in J. A. Fodor & J. J. Katz (eds.), The Structure of
Language, 246--323; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964); Laurence Horn
(A Natural History of Negation; University of Chicago Press, 1989); and William
A. Ladusaw (Polarity Sensitivity as Inherent Scope Relations; New York: Garland,
1980). The relation between clause type and illocutionary force (Ch. 9) connects
grammar to the classification of speech acts begun by the philosopher of language
J. L. Austin in How to Do Things with Wo rds (OUP, 1962). The importance of
semantics in the interpretation of subjectless non-finites (Ch. 13) is demonstrated
by Ivan A. Sag & Carl J. Pollard, 'An integrated theory of complement control'
(Language 67 (1991): 63-113).
The rich technical literature on subordination, coordination, and unbounded
dependencies raises many intertwined issues. Important generative works include
John Robert Ross, Infinite Syntax! (New York: Ablex, 1986; originally a 1967 MIT
doctoral dissertation called 'Constraints on Variables in Syntax'); Joan Bresnan &
Jane Grimshaw, 'The syntax of free relatives in English' (Linguistic Inquiry 9
(1978): 331-91); Joan Bresnan, 'Syntax of the comparative clause construction in
English' (Linguistic Inquiry 4 (1973): 275-343); Gerald Gazdar, 'Unbounded
dependencies and coordinate structure' (Linguistic Inquiry 12 (1981): 155-84); and
Ivan A. Sag et aI., 'Coordination and how to distinguish categories' (Natural
Language & Linguistic Theory 3 (1985): 117-7 1). All of these are technical works
giving various kinds of theoretical accounts of subsets of the facts dealt with here in
Chs. 10-14. Many others that have influenced us could be cited.