Analysing English Sentence Structure

✍ Scribed by Andrew Radford

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 562
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past forty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concepts are clearly explained without excessive use of technical jargon. Analysing English Sentence Structure continues in this tradition, offering a well-structured intermediate course in English syntax and contemporary syntactic theory. Chapters are split into core modules, each focusing on a specific topic, and the reader is supported throughout with learning aids such as summaries, lists of key hypotheses and principles, extensive references, exercises with handy hints, and a glossary of terminology. Both teachers and instructors will benefit from the book's free online resources, which comprise an open-access Students' Answerbook, and a password-protected Teachers' Answerbook, each containing comprehensive answers to exercises, with detailed tree diagrams. The book and accompanying resources are designed to serve both as a coursebook for use in class, and as a self-study resource for use at home.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Background
1.0 Overview
1.1 Basic concepts
1.1.1 Prescriptive and descriptive grammar
1.1.2 Syntactic data
1.1.3 Categories and features
1.2 Generating syntactic structures
1.2.1 Merge
1.2.2 X-bar syntax
1.2.3 Adjunction
1.3 Invisible structure and structural relations
1.3.1 Null constituents
1.3.2 Case-marking and c‑command
1.4 Movement operations
1.4.1 A‑bar Movement
1.4.2 A‑Movement
1.4.3 Head Movement
1.5 Blocking mechanisms
1.5.1 Constraints
1.5.2 Filters
1.6 Summary
1.7 Bibliographical notes
1.8 Workbook
2 A‑Movement
2.0 Overview
2.1 VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis
2.1.1 Subjects in Belfast and Standard English
2.1.2 Further evidence for VP‑internal subjects
2.2 Argument structure and theta roles
2.2.1 Predicates and arguments
2.2.2 Theta roles
2.2.3 Theta-marking
2.3 Unaccusative structures
2.3.1 Unaccusative predicates
2.3.2 Unaccusatives compared with other predicates
2.3.3 The syntax of unaccusative subjects
2.4 Passive structures
2.4.1 Simple passives
2.4.2 Cross-clausal passives
2.4.3 Constraints on Passivisation
2.5 Raising and Control structures
2.5.1 Raising structures
2.5.2 Control structures
2.5.3 Differences between Raising and Control
2.6 Mixed structures
2.6.1 A mixed Passive, Control and Raising sentence
2.6.2 A mixed Unaccusative and Raising sentence
2.7 Summary
2.8 Bibliographical notes
2.9 Workbook
3 Agreement
3.0 Overview
3.1 Agreement, A‑Movement and Case-marking
3.1.1 Agreement and A‑Movement
3.1.2 Case-marking
3.1.3 Valued and unvalued features
3.2 Agreement and case in expletive clauses
3.2.1 Expletive it clauses
3.2.2 Expletive there clauses
3.2.3 Conditions on the use of expletives
3.3 Agreement, A‑Movement and case in infinitives
3.3.1 Raising infinitives
3.3.2 ECM infinitives
3.3.3 Passive infinitives
3.3.4 Infinitival CPs
3.4 Cross-clausal agreement
3.4.1 Agreement across a finite TP
3.4.2 Agreement across a finite CP
3.4.3 Copy Raising with non-expletive subjects
3.5 Summary
3.6 Bibliographical notes
3.7 Workbook
4 The clause periphery
4.0 Overview
4.1 The Cartographic approach
4.1.1 Force and topic projections
4.1.2 In situ and ex situ topics
4.1.3 Multiple topic structures
4.2 Focus projections
4.2.1 Peripheral focused constituents
4.2.2 Comparing topic and focus
4.3 Modifier and finiteness projections
4.3.1 Modifier projections
4.3.2 Finiteness projections
4.4 Complete and truncated clauses
4.4.1 Complete clauses
4.4.2 Truncated clauses
4.5 Summary
4.6 Bibliographical notes
4.7 Workbook
5 More peripheral constituents
5.0 Overview
5.1 Negative and Interrogative Inversion
5.1.1 Negative Inversion
5.1.2 Interrogative Inversion
5.2 Wh‑questions without Interrogative Inversion
5.2.1 Embedded wh‑questions
5.2.2 How come questions
5.3 Yes–no questions
5.3.1 Root yes–no questions
5.3.2 Embedded yes–no questions
5.4 Exclamative and relative clauses
5.4.1 Exclamative clauses
5.4.2 Relative clauses
5.5 Summary
5.6 Bibliographical notes
5.7 Workbook
6 The subperiphery
6.0 Overview
6.1 Auxiliary and subject projections
6.1.1 Auxiliary projections
6.1.2 Subject projection
6.2 Subperipheral adverbs
6.2.1 Analysing ADVPs as specifiers
6.2.2 Relative ordering of multiple ADVPs
6.3 Word order variation
6.3.1 ADVPs and auxiliaries
6.3.2 ADVPs and subjects
6.3.3 Postmodifying ADVPs
6.4 Other subperipheral constituents
6.4.1 PPs and subordinate clauses
6.4.2 Floating QPs: Stranded under movement
6.4.3 Floating QPs: In a dedicated projection
6.5 Summary
6.6 Bibliographical notes
6.7 Workbook
7 Abbreviated registers
7.0 Overview
7.1 Subject Drop
7.1.1 The nature of Subject Drop
7.1.2 A Truncation account of Subject Drop
7.1.3 Subject+Auxiliary Drop
7.2 Auxiliary Drop
7.2.1 A Truncation account of Auxiliary Drop
7.2.2 A Left Edge Ellipsis account
7.2.3 A prosodic account
7.3 Article Drop
7.3.1 A Truncation analysis of Article Drop
7.3.2 Null article and article ellipsis accounts
7.4 Be Drop
7.4.1 Characteristics of Be Drop
7.4.2 Truncation accounts of Be Drop
7.4.3 Be Drop and Article Drop
7.5 Object Drop
7.5.1 A Topic Drop analysis of null objects
7.5.2 An Article Drop analysis of null objects
7.5.3 Null objects as instances of a null pronoun/pro
7.6 Summary
7.7 Bibliographical notes
7.8 Workbook
Glossary and Abbreviations
References
Index