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Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

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Preface i1 Core Concepts 11.1 What is a sentence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1.1 Utterances, propositions and sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1.2 Acceptability, grammaticality and stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1.3 Form and order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.2 Tacit Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 Syntactic theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.4 Back to Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Morphosyntactic features 172.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.2 Introducing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.3 What are features? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.3.1 Feature Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212.3.2 Interface Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.4 Motivating Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.4.1 Major Category Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.4.2 More on the content of words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.4.3 Some more minor features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Constituency and Theta Roles 483.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483.2 Constituents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483.3 Fundamental notions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533.4 Determining the head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573.5 Predicting the head - θ-roles and selectional features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603.5.1 θ Roles and the θ-Criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613.5.2 Unassigned θ-roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.5.3 Selectional Features and Lexical Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.5.4 S-selectional Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683.6 Triggering Merge by feature checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

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