最简方案：句法理论与英语结构

    Andrew Radford教授的这部著作，是专为那些很少、甚至没有当代句法理论背景的读者撰写的，介绍的是当代语言学的最新理论Chomsky的最简方案。本书还设计了大量供学习者提高分析能力的思考题，并给出了适当的暗示和标准答案。书末附有句法理论中关键术语的小词典。

    

Preface
1 Principles and parameters
1.1 Overview
1.2 Grammar
1.3 Criteria of adequacy
1.4 Language faculty
1.5 Creativity
1.6 Principles
1.7 Parameters
1.8 Parameter-setting
1.9 Evidence
1.10 Summary
Workbood section
2 Categories and features
2.1 Overview
2.2 Morphological evidence
2.3 Syntactic evidence
2.4 Functional categories:determiners and pronouns
2.5 Auxiliaries and infinitival to
2.6 complementizers
2.7 Parsing
2.8 Subcategorial features
2.9 Cross-categorial features
2.10 Summary
Workbood section
3 Syntactic structure
3.1 Overview
3.2 forming phrases
3.3 Specifiers
3.4 forming sentences
3.5 Tree diagrams
3.6 configurational elations
3.7 Testing structure
3.8 Additional tests
3.9 C-command
3.10 Summary
Workbood section
4 Empty categories
5 Checking
6 Head movement
7 Operator movement
8 A movement
9 VP shells
10 Agreement projections