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This book, by one of Spain's most eminent philosophers, provides a lively and very accessible introduction to philosophy. Written for those who have no prior knowledge of the field, it reveals how the central problems of philosophy remain high"

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• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Part 1 Preliminaries
• 1 Generative Grammar
• 0 Preliminaries
• 1 Syntax as a Cognitive Science
• 2 Modeling Syntax
• 3 Syntax as Science - the Scientific Method An Example of the Scientific Method as Applied to Syntax Sources of Data
• 4 Where do the Rules Come From? Learning vs
• 5 Choosing among Theories about Syntax
• 6 The Scientific Method and the Structure of this Textbook
• 7 Summary Ideas Introduced in this Chapter Further Reading General Problem Sets Challenge Problem Sets
• 2 Parts of Speech
• 0 Words and Why They Matter to Syntax
• 1 Determining Part of Speech The Problem of Traditional Definitions Distributional Criteria
• 2 The Major Parts of Speech: N, V, Adj, and Adv Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs
• 3 Open vs
• 4 Subcategories and Features Subcategories of Nouns Subcategories of Verbs
• 5 Summary Ideas Introduced in this Chapter Further Reading General Problem Sets Challenge Problem Sets
• 3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules
• 0 Introduction
• 1 Rules and Trees Noun Phrases (NPs) Adjective Phrases (AdjPs) and Adverb Phrases (AdvPs) Prepositional Phrases (PPs) Verb Phrases (VPs) Clauses Summary
• 2 How to Draw a Tree Bottom-up Trees The Top-down Method of Drawing Trees Bracketed Diagrams
• 3 Modification and Ambiguity
• 4 Constituency Tests
• 5 Summary and Conclusion
• Appendix How to do Foreign Language PSR Problems
• A1 Doing problems with word-by-word glosses
• A2 Doing problems without word-by-word glosses Ideas Introduced in this Chapter Further Reading General Problem Sets Challenge Problem Sets
• 4 Structural Relations
• 0 Introduction
• 1 The Parts of a Tree
• 2 Domination Domination Exhaustive Domination Immediate Domination
• 3 Precedence
• 4 C-command
• 5 Grammatical Relations
• 6 Summary and Conclusions Ideas Introduced in this Chapter Further Reading General Problem Sets Challenge Problem Sets
• 5 Binding Theory
• 0 Introduction
• 1 The Notions Coindex and Antecedent
• 2 Binding
• 3 Locality Conditions on the Binding of Anaphors
• 4 The Distribution of Pronouns
• 5 The Distribution of R-expressions
• 6 Conclusion Ideas Introduced in this Chapter Further Reading General Problem Sets Challenge Problem Sets
• Part 2 The Base
• 6 X-bar Theory
• 0 Introduction
• 1 Bar-level Projections V-bar Adj-bar and Adv-bar P-bar
• 2 Generalizing the Rules: The X-bar Schema
• 3 Complements, Adjuncts, and Specifiers Complements and Adjuncts in NPs Complements and Adjuncts in VPs, AdjPs, AdvPs, and PPs The Notion Specifier
• 4 Some Definitional Housekeeping
• 5 Parameters of Word Order
• 6 Drawing Trees in X-bar Notation Important Considerations in Tree Drawing A Sample Tree
• 7 X-bar Theory: A Summary Ideas Introduced in this Chapter Further Reading General Problem Sets Challenge Problem Sets
• 7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories
• 0 Introduction
• 1 Determiner Phrases (DPs)
• 2 A Descriptive Tangent into Clause Types
• 3 Complementizer Phrases (CPs)
• 4 Tense Phrases (TPs)
• 5 CP, TP, DP tree Ideas Introduced in this Chapter Further Reading General Problem Sets Challenge Problem Sets
• 8 Constraining X-bar Theory: The Lexicon
• 0 Introduction
• 1 Some Basic Terminology
• 2 Thematic Relations and Theta Roles
• 3 The Lexicon
• 4 Expletives