Beginning English Grammar

Plot

Introduction. Part I: The Road To Remote Structures. A First Encounter With Grammar -- More On Myself -- Representing Sentence Parts -- The Minimal Clause Problem -- Generalization Of The Rules For I, Me, Myself And The Notion Of Coreference -- More On Reflexives: Remote Structures -- Justification For Remote Structures -- Further Specialized Deletion Rules -- A New Type Of Deletion Rule -- Another Controlled Deletion Rule -- -- Part Ii: On The Nature Of The Grammar. Initial Trees -- Base Rules And Grammatical Relations -- Recursive Rules -- The Lexicon And Productive Word Formation -- The Lexicon And Lexical Insertion -- Transformational Rules -- -- Part Iii: Some Fundamental Grammatical Operations. Passivization -- Extraposition -- A First Look At Raising -- More On Raising -- Another Kind Of Raising Operation -- More On Passivization -- -- Part Iv: Some Aspects Of The Verbal System. Floating Quantifiers -- Floating Quantifiers And The Verbal System -- Verbal Subcategories: Adjectives And Auxiliaries -- Do Erasure, Surface Bracketing, And So-called Verb Phrases -- Interrogatives And Subject-auxiliary Inversion -- -- Part V: Conclusion. The Principle Of Cyclic Application. Samuel Jay Keyser, Paul M. Postal. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 421-429.