Government and Binding Theory

Government and Binding Theory

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This will be an introductory book on the influential syntactic theory. Linguistics is a prerequisite.

Table of Contents

• Principles and Parameters
• X-bar Theory
  • X-bar Theory

    

    The basic X-bar structure

  • IP and CP
  • Recursion
  • DP Hypothesis
  • Split INFL Hypothesis
  • VP-Shell Hypothesis
  • Articulated CP Hypothesis
  • Head Parameter
• Basics of Movement

  

  A type of movement

  • Theta Theory
  • A-Movements
  • Ā-Movements
  • Head Movements
  • Trace Theory
• Bounding Theory
  • Subjacency
  • Barriers
  • Relativised Minimality
• Case, Control and Binding
  • Case Theory
  • Case Filter
  • Control Theory
  • the pro-drop Parameter
  • Binding Theory
• Logical Form