Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 1. Generative grammar -- Chapter 2. Parts of speech -- Chapter 3. Constituency, trees, and rules -- Chapter 4. Structural relations -- Chapter 5. Binding theory -- Part 2. The Base -- Chapter 6. X-bar theory -- Chapter 7. Extending X-bar theory to functional categories -- Chapter 8. Constraining X-bar : Theta theory -- Chapter 9. Theta grids and functional categories -- Part 3. Movement. Chapter 10. Head-to-head movement -- Chapter 11. DP movement -- Chapter 12. Wh-movement and locality constraints -- Chapter 13. A unified theory of movement -- Part 4. Advanced Topics -- Chapter 14. Ditransitives -- Chapter 15. Raising, control, and empty categories -- Chapter 16. Ellipsis -- Chapter 17. Advanced topics in binding theory -- Chapter 18. Polysynthesis, incorporation, and non-configurationality -- Chapter 19. Merge

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