Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Setting the Stage	1
1.1	Phrase Structure Composition in Grammatical Derivation	1
1.2	TAG Basics	16
1.3	The Structure of TAG Derivations	27
1.4	Formal Grammar and Human Grammar	32
Ch. 2	The Nature of Elementary Trees	37
2.1	Elementary Trees as Thematic Domains	37
2.2	Extending beyond the Thematic Domain	40
2.3	The Unity of Extended Projections	45
2.4	Elementary Trees as Extended Projections	53
Ch. 3	A Case Study: Raising	67
3.1	The Displacement Phenomenon and Motivations for Movement	67
3.2	A TAG Analysis: Factoring Recursion	69
3.3	Deriving Locality	73
3.4	Getting By without Traces	81
3.5	Nonraising in Nominals and Gerunds	89
3.6	Raising Passives	96
3.7	Raising from Small Clauses	99
3.8	Raising and Inversion	101
Ch. 4	Local Constraints and Local Economy	113
4.1	A Local Version of the EPP	113
4.2	Local Feature Checking and Local Economy	123
4.3	Locality and the Maximal Checking Principle	128
4.4	Residues of the EPP	133
4.5	Quirky Subjects, Agreement, and Nominative Case Assignment	138
4.6	Constraints on Adjoining: Feature Checking across Elementary Trees	153
Ch. 5	A Case Study: Wh-Dependencies	175
5.1	Movement and Adjoining in Wh-Dependencies	175
5.2	Bridge Verbs and Nonmaximal Complements	176
5.3	Nonmaximal Projections, Wh-Features, and Superiority	180
5.4	What Drives Wh-Movement?	182
5.5	Deriving Island Effects	199
5.6	Long Movement	218
5.7	Long Movement from Nominals	227
Ch. 6	Looking Onward	233
6.1	Difficult Dependencies	233
6.2	Interface Issues	239
	Notes	245
	References	293
	Index	309