CONTENTS
Series Foreword = ⅸ
Acknowledgments = xi
Introduction = 1
Chapter 1 Juncture and Clause Structure = 7
1.1 Preliminaries = 7
1.2 The Basic Structure of the Clause = 8
1.3 A Classification of Junctures = 21
1.4 Restrictive Modification = 23
Chapter 2 Theta Role Assignment and predication = 25
2.1 Preliminaries = 25
2.2 Properties of Theta Roles and Relations = 25
2.3 Predication = 37
2.4 Function Composition = 44
2.5 Extraction and Adjuncts: The Scopal ECP = 54
2.6 Events = 72
Chapter 3 Small Clauses = 77
3.1 The Theta Criterion and the Opacity Condition = 77
3.2 Adjunct Control = 84
3.3 Complex Predicates and Small Clauses = 102
Chapter 4 NP-Movement and the Subject = 113
4.1 Assumptions = 114
4.2 Movement to the Subject Position = 117
4.3 The VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis = 141
4.4 Object Scrambling = 153
Chapter 5 Verb Movement = 163
5.1 Emonds and Pollock on the Difference between English and French = 164
5.2 Larson's Verb Movement, Heavy NP Shift, Precedence, and the Binding Theory = 178
5.3 Verb Movements = 199
Chapter 6 Binding Theory and Theta Theory = 207
6.1 The Subject Matter of the Binding Theory = 208
6.2 The Binding-Theoretic Nature of the "Argument Of" Relation = 213
6.3 General Reconstruction Effects = 224
6.4 The Hybrid Binding Theory = 230
References = 255
Index = 263
