Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction and retrospection
  • Chapter 2. Dependency in phonology and morphology
  • 2.1. Dependency in syntax
  • 2.2. Subjunction and the head of the sentence
  • 2.3. Morphological structure
  • 2.4. Phonological structure: suprasegmental
  • 2.5. Phonological structure: segmental
  • 2.6. Dependency preservation
  • Chapter 3. Contrast in syntax
  • 3.1. Constraining case grammar
  • 3.2. Contrast and the case relations
  • 3.3. Case relations as a universal alphabet
  • 3.4. Contrast and the case grammar hypothesis
  • 3.5. Case relations, the lexicon, cyclicity and controlChapter 4. Cyclicity in syntax
  • 4.1. The unaccusative hypothesis and the strict cycle condition
  • 4.2. Subject and the strict cycle condition
  • 4.3. Cyclicity and the pre-lexical base
  • 4.4. Further remarks on control
  • Chapter 5. Syntactic categories
  • 5.1. The nature of syntactic categories
  • 5.2. Subcategories of the noun
  • 5.3. Syntactic prosodies
  • 5.4. Remarks on grammaticalisation
  • 5.5. Subcategories of the verb I
  • 5.6. Subcategories of the verb II: auxiliaries
  • 5.7. Coda on categorisationChapter 6. Features, words and segments
  • Chapter 7. Categories of change
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Phonological recategorisation
  • 7.3. Realignment: modals
  • 7.4. Conflation: infinitives
  • 7.5. Differentiation I: gerund
  • 7.6. Differentiation II: participles
  • 7.7. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index