Contents Preface and Acknowledgments xlvii Part 1 Preliminaries 1 1 Generative Grammar 3 2 Parts of Speech 43 3 Constituency, Trees, and Rules 67 4 Structural Relations 113 5 Binding Theory 141 Part 2 The Base 159 6 X-bar Theory 161 7 Extending X-bar Theory to Functional Categories 213 8 Constraining X-bar: Theta Theory 243 9 Theta Grids and Functional Categories 265 Part 3 Movement 295 10 Head-to-Head Movement 297 11 DP Movement 331 12 Wh-movement and Locality Constraints 365 13 A Unified Theory of Movement 395 Part 4 Advanced Topics 411 14 Ditransitives 413 15 Raising, Control, and Empty Categories 429 16 Ellipsis 453 17 Advanced Topics in Binding Theory 471 18 Polysynthesis, Incorporation, and Non-conigurationality 483 19 Merge 499 Conclusions and Directions for Further Study 509 References 511 Index 521