A Practical Generative Grammar with Exercises

The book starts out at basic concepts and adds to these to enable the adequate description of some more complex phenomena. It starts from the beginning and tries to make a few assumptions about some basic linguistic notions (parts of speech, some basic generative notions, the structure of phrases). Starting with Chapter 4, it takes a close look at some important generative phenomena and the last chapters address specific aspects of the English language.

Each chapter covers a different focus of syntactic research, and in some cases one chapter may rely on notions introduced and used in a previous chapter. The three main building blocks of this workbook are the following: (i) a brief summary of the main theoretical issues related to the topic of the chapter, (ii) a substantial amount of exercises and (iii) model answers to these exercises.