Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Foreword
• Abbreviations
• CHAPTER 1
• Introduction
• 1.1. The Descriptive and Theoretical Goals
• 1.2. An Overview of Government Binding Theory
• 1.3. An Overview of the Major Results of This Study
• CHAPTER 2
• Celtic Agreement, the Avoid Pronoun Principle, and Binding Theory
• 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. Breton Agreement Markers Determined by the Avoid Pronoun Principle
• 2.3. Generalising the Analysis of Breton Agreement to Welsh
• 2.4. Evidence from the Binding Theory: Breton and Welsh Have a Null AGR
• 2.5. AGR as a SUBJECT for the Binding Theory
• CHAPTER 3
• Raising an Passivization in Breton: An Argument for Anaphoric Traces
• 3.1. The theoretical Status of Anaphoric Traces
• 3.2. The Breton Raising to Subject Construction
• 3.3. Raising Structures Parallel Passive Structures
• 3.4. Breton Raising and Pseudopassive: Ruther Implications
• 3.5. Conclusion
• CHAPTER 4
• PRO-INFL and Reduced Structures
• 4.1. Reduced Structures Have Missingg INFL'
• 4.2. Some INFLs Missing in Welsh and English are PRO-INFL
• 4.3. Corroborating Evidence for the PRO-INFL Analysis
• 4.4. Contraction and Reduced Structures
• 4.5. A Cometing Analysis
• 4.6. Breton is Consistent with the PRO-INFL Analysis
• CHAPTER 5
• Government and the Connection Between Relative Pronouns, Complementizers and Subjacency
• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2. Relative Pronouns in English
• 3.3. Relative Pronouns Are Pronominal Anaphors
• 5.4 Welsh and Breton Lack relative Pronouns
• 5.5. Competing Analyses and Other Arguments
• 5.6. Conclusion
• CHAPTER 6
• The Interaction of Government Theory With Synthetic Agreement
• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. The ECP Gives a Unified Treatment of Complementizers and Agreement in Welsh Movement Structures
• 6.3. Two Asymmetries in Breton and Welsh Extraction
• 6.4. Welsh and Breton Extraction from Negatives
• 6.5. Competing Analyses and Arguments
• 6.6. Subject-Object Asymmetries at LF and the ECP
• 6.7. Conclusion
• References
• Index of Languages
• Index of Names
• Subject Index