The Syntax Workbook

Andrew Carnie is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director in the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. He specializes in generative syntactic theory with an emphasis on constituency, VSO languages, copular constructions and Celtic languages. He is the author of numerous other publications, including Irish Nouns (2008), Constituent Structure (2010), Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics (2011), Modern Syntax (2011), and Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Third Edition (2013).

Introduction: Welcome 1 Part 1 Preliminaries 3 1 Generative Grammar 5 2 Parts of Speech 13 3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 20 4 Structural Relations 39 5 Binding Theory 46 Part 2 The Base 51 6 X-bar Theory 53 7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 72 8 Constraining X-bar Theory: Theta Theory 84 9 Auxiliaries and Functional Categories 93 Part 3 Movement 107 10 Head-to-Head Movement 109 11 DP Movement 117 12 Wh -movement and Locality Constraints 127 13 A Unified Theory of Movement 145 Part 4 Advanced Topics 149 14 Expanded VPs 151 15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 157 16 Ellipsis 169 17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 174 18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-configurationality 177 References 180 Index 182