Lexicon and Grammar : The English Syntacticon.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's academic biography -- Chapter 1. Categories and feature inventories of Universal Grammar -- 1.1 A theory and practice of well-formed lexical entries -- 1.2 Types of syntactic categories and features -- 1.3 A theory of phrase structure as Extended Projections -- 1.4 The interplay among derivations, the Lexicon, and Economy Principles -- 1.5 An excursus into IP reference and economy at the LF Interface -- Chapter 2. Subcategorization: Syntax as the material basis of semantics -- 2.1 Advantages of classical subcategorization -- 2.2 Extending and restricting subcategorization to syntactic features -- 2.3 Syntactic vs. semantic selection: sisterhood is powerful -- 2.4 Determining Theta Roles by interpretive principles -- 2.5 Indeterminacy of object roles: the LOCATION feature on V -- 2.6 Indeterminacy of subject roles: variation in principal role -- 2.7 A Gedanken Experiment for learning lexical entries -- Chapter 3. Subcategorization inside words: Morphology as grammatical compounding -- 3.1 Marked and unmarked headedness: English vs. Japanese -- 3.2 The independence of head directionality and domain size: French word order -- 3.3 Combining word-internal and phrasal trees -- 3.4 Conflating syntactic and morphological subcategorization -- 3.5 Where it's at: Morphology as a special case of compounding -- 3.6 Relating morphological typology to free form properties -- 3.7 Dictionary and Syntacticon: a new slant on lexical research -- Chapter 4. Multi-level lexical insertion: Explaining Inflection and Derivation -- 4.1 The bifurcated lexical model: Dictionary and Syntacticon -- 4.2 Levels of lexical insertion -- 4.3 Defining and dividing morphology -- 4.4 Inflectional morphology as late insertion -- 4.5 Alternative Realization on free morphemes.

4.6 Derivational morphology: the arguments of lexically derived forms -- 4.7 English nominalizations: confirming the Syntacticon model -- 4.8 Expanded list of differences between the Dictionary and the Syntacticon -- Chapter 5. Passive syntactic structures -- 5.1 The common syntax of Verbal and Adjectival passives -- 5.2 Differences between Verbal and Adjectival passives -- 5.3 Two insertion levels in syntax: two types of passive Adjectives -- 5.4 The Verbal (inflectional) passive -- 5.5 Cross-linguistic variation in impersonal passives -- 5.6 The strange Case of perfect participles -- Chapter 6. The genesis of flat structures: Linking verbs, "light" verbs and "restructuring" -- 6.1 Surprising consequences of higher empty heads -- 6.2 Flatter lexical projections for predicate adjectives and participles -- 6.3 Flatter lexical projections induced by "light" verbs -- 6.4 Theoretical limits on possible flat structures -- 6.5 Differing lexical projections induced by restructuring verbs -- 6.6 The excess content of integrating syntax and morphology -- Appendix to chapter 6. Causative and perception verb "clause union" -- A.1 Burzio's parallels between causatives and restructuring -- A.2 Kayne's three patterns of Romance causatives -- A.3 Implications of a generalized definition of subject -- A.4 The syntax of internal arguments which are LF Subjects -- A.5 Revising the SSC and Principle A: Local Binding in LF -- Chapter 7. Subcategorization across syntactic empty heads -- 7.1 A review of Revised Classical Subcategorization -- 7.2 The source of intermediate empty heads -- 7.3 The Deep Case Filter: a basis for articulated structure and recursion -- 7.4 The range and genesis of adjunct constructions -- 7.5 Empty inflectional heads and economy of non-finite clauses -- 7.6 Present participles and the Revised Theta Criterion.

Chapter 8. The restricted complement space of lexical frames -- 8.1 The range of single phrase complements -- 8.2 Limitations on multiple complements -- 8.3 The Case of predicate attributes -- 8.4 The restrictive Syntactic Lexicon confronts open-ended Conceptual Space -- Chapter 9. Licensing and identification of null complements -- 9.1 Syntactic identification and subcategorization -- 9.2 Three hypotheses for understood complements -- 9.3 Discourse identification: Grimshaw's null complement anaphora -- 9.4 Rizzi's generic null objects -- 9.5 The impotence of the lexical item -- Chapter 10. Understood subjects: Generalizing Pro -- 10.1 Subcategorization and obligatory control -- 10.2 Pragmatic control -- 10.3 Imperatives, direct and embedded -- 10.4 Understood agents in passive clauses -- 10.5 Nature's bottleneck -- Summary of principles -- Sample Lexicon -- References -- Subject Index.

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