Semantic Syntax : Second Revised Edition.

Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Some Historical and Methodological Backgrounds -- 1.1.1 The Birth of Generative Grammar and its Offshoot Semantic Syntax -- 1.1.2 The Birth of Transformational Generative Grammar -- 1.1.3 The Birth of the Transformational Cycle -- 1.1.4 The Birth of Generative Semantics -- 1.1.5 Autonomous Syntax and X-bar Theory -- 1.1.6 The Demise of Generative Semantics? -- 1.1.7 Methodological Differences with Post-1970 Chomsky -- 1.2 Surface Semantics and Compositionality -- 1.2.1 The Notion of Compositionality -- 1.2.2 No Surface Semantics -- 1.2.3 The Overall Architecture of the Theory -- 1.3 Some General Properties of the Rule System -- 1.3.1 The Architecture of G -- 1.3.2 The General Format: VSO or SOV -- 1.3.3 Thematic Functions versus Argument Functions -- 1.4 SAs as a Way of Representing Sentence Meaning -- 1.4.1 The Overall Structure of SAs for European Languages -- 1.4.2 Predicate Argument Structure: The 19th-Century Debate -- 1.4.3 The General Nature of Predicate Argument Structure -- 1.4.4 The Nonuniversality of SAs and Universal Meaning -- 1.4.5 Alternative Ways of Representing Sentence Meaning? -- 1.5 Prelexical Syntax and Other Aspects of Lexical Meaning -- Chapter 2 Some Formal Properties of Grammars, Trees and Rules -- 2.1 Introductory -- 2.2 Nodes, Constituents, Expansions and Areas -- 2.3 Downgrading of S-nodes -- 2.4 Argument Functions -- 2.5 Elementary Operations -- 2.6 Some Definitions -- 2.7 Routines -- 2.7.1 Procedurally Induced Routines -- 2.7.2 Structurally Induced Routines -- 2.7.3 Category-induced Routines -- 2.7.4 Cyclic Lexically Induced Routines -- 2.8 Directionality and Spines -- 2.9 The Auxiliary System and the Complementation System -- 2.10 Aux -- 2.11 The Double (treble) Tense Analysis.

2.12 The Complementation System -- Chapter 3 The English Auxiliary and Complementation System -- 3.1 Some Basic Machinery -- 3.1.1 The Main Formation Rules -- 3.1.2 Some Lexicon -- 3.1.3 Cyclic Rules -- 3.1.4 Corollaries -- 3.1.5 Some Postcyclic Rules (to be applied in the order given) -- 3.1.6 How to Use the Machinery -- 3.2 Further Preliminary Remarks -- 3.2.1 Question Formation and Fronting in English -- 3.3 The Generation of a Few Simple English Sentences -- 3.4 Negation, the Modals and emph -- 3.5 Adverbs, Prepositions, and Prepositional Objects -- 3.6 Internal and External Datives -- 3.7 Passives, Progressives and other be-sentences -- 3.7.1 Passives -- 3.7.2 Progressives and the Deletion of Being -- 3.7.3 Other be-sentences: Ø-be Deletion -- 3.8 Some Aspects of Complementation -- 3.8.1 NP-over-S" and Bare S -- 3.8.2 Helping Jim -- 3.8.3 Eager and Easy to Please -- Chapter 4 The French Auxiliary and Complementation System -- 4.1 Preliminary Comparative Observations -- 4.1.1 The French Tenses and S"-complementation -- 4.1.2 The French Modals -- 4.1.3 The maux-verbs aller and venir (de) -- 4.1.4 The Cycle -- 4.2 Some Basic Machinery -- 4.2.1 The Main Formation Rules -- 4.2.2 Some Lexicon -- 4.2.3 Cyclic Rules -- 4.2.4 Corollaries -- 4.2.5 Some Postcyclic Rules (to be applied in the order given) -- 4.3 Some Example Sentences -- 4.3.1 Datives, Clitics and Dative Extraction -- 4.3.2 A Sentence with a High PrepPhrase -- 4.4 The Complementation System: sr, sd, pr -- 4.4.1 Subject Raising and the Case of venir (de) -- 4.4.2 Subject Deletion, Subject Raising and the Case of falloir -- 4.4.3 Predicate Raising and the Case of faire and laisser -- 4.5 Negative and Other Adverbs -- 4.6 Passive in French -- 4.7 Clitic en and the Raising-Control Analogy -- Chapter 5 The Dutch Auxiliary and Complementation System -- 5.1 Preliminary Comparative Observations.

5.1.1 The Tenses -- 5.1.2 The Modals and Futuricity -- 5.1.3 The Maux-verb vallen (te) and the Full Verb zijn (te) -- 5.2 Some Basic Machinery -- 5.2.1 The Main Formation Rules -- 5.2.2 Some Lexicon -- 5.2.3 Cyclic Rules -- 5.2.4 Corollaries -- 5.2.5 Some Postcyclic Rules (to be applied in the order given) -- 5.2.6 Question Formation and Fronting in Dutch -- 5.2.7 Clitic Movement -- 5.3 Passive in Dutch -- 5.4 The Complementation System -- 5.4.1 Predicate Raising -- 5.4.2 Two Verbs helpen -- 5.4.3 Why Dutch Complementation has no Subject Raising -- 5.5 Verb-final and End Cluster Arrangement or Creeping -- 5.6 Pr on zijn1 and Adjectives -- 5.7 The Syntax of Adverbs and Negation -- the Queuing Principle -- 5.8 Dutch an SOV-language? -- Chapter 6 The German Auxiliary and Complementation System -- 6.1 Preliminary Comparative Observations -- 6.2 Branching Directionality in V-clusters: The R-condition -- 6.3 Some Basic Machinery -- 6.3.1 The Main Formation Rules -- 6.3.2 Some Lexicon -- 6.3.3 Cyclic Rules -- 6.3.4 Corollaries -- 6.3.5 Some Postcyclic Rules (to be applied in the order given) -- 6.4 Fronting and Question Formation in German -- 6.5 Clitic Movement and the Position of the Subject -- 6.6 Counterfactual and Subjunctive in the Four Languages -- Chapter 7 Any Other Business -- 7.1 Quantification -- 7.2 Clefting, Deep Accent and wh-questions -- 7.2.1 A Preliminary Exercise in NP-grammar -- 7.2.2 Clefting, Pseudoclefting and Deep Accent -- 7.2.3 Specific or WH-questions -- 7.3 Conjunction Reduction -- 7.4 Subordinate Clauses and Prepositional Participial Clauses -- 7.5 Deeper Semantic Analysis (DSA) -- 7.6 A Glance at Turkish -- 7.6.1 Introductory Observations on Turkish -- 7.6.2 Some Main Formation Rules -- 7.6.3 Some Lexicon -- 7.6.4 Some Postcyclic Rules (to be applied in the order given) -- 7.6.5 Some Example Sentences -- List of French Words.

List of Dutch Words -- List of German Words -- Bibliography -- Index.

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