Ebook: An introduction to syntax according to Generative Grammar Theories

Romania Minor, 2005. — 49 p.Contents
An Introduction to Semantics
Generative Grammar (GG)
Before syntax, there is semantics
A theory of semantics based on ≪predicates≫ and ≪valencies≫
Kinds of predicates according to the number of valencies
they need
How to represent Predicate Frames (PF)
Compulsory and adjunct valencies
The Fundamentals of Syntax
Syntax and Grammar
Word classes
The X-bar theory
Into the syntactic representation of a sentence: VP and IP
The theory of case
What a case is
Declension in Latin, Czech and German
Samples of declension
Saxon and Norman Genitive in English
Kernel and non-kernel sentences
Kernel sentences and other added items
Negative Phrase
nterrogative Phrase
Focus Phrase
Topic Phrase
An Introduction to Syntax According to GG Theories
The VP-shell
What is the VP-shell
The VP-shell and the Indirect Object
A frequency adverb: double specifier
The passive voice
An ergative sentence
Completive Clauses
Complementiser Phrase
Completive clause
A to-clause
Clauses with -ing
A That-clause
An attached clause: conditional clause
Object rise
Clauses with for
An attached clause: conditional clause
Relative Clauses
What a relative clause is
Relative pronoun as an object
Relative pronoun as a subject
Relative pronoun within the object
More questions concerning relative pronouns