GRAMMARS AND GRAMMATICALITY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Content of Syntactic Theory -- 1. The Nature of the Project -- 1.1. The Fundamental Phenomena of Syntax -- 1.2. Syntactic Description as Functional Analysis -- 1.3. Further Commentary on the Fundamental Phenomena: Normativity -- 1.4. The Form and Interpretation of Grammatical Rule Statements -- 1.5. Grammars as Theories -- 1.6. Grammars and Empiricalness -- 1.7. Further Commentary on the Concept of Weak Empiricalness -- 1.8. N-Description and Generative Grammar -- 2. Syntactic Theory and Psychology -- 2.1. General -- 2.2. On Defining Linguistic Competence -- 2.2.1. Historical Background -- 2.2.2. Competence, Production and Recognition -- 2.3. Arguments for the Autonomy Principle -- 2.3.1. The Necessity of Abstractness -- 2.3.2. A Second Argument for the Necessity of Abstractness -- 2.3.3. Linguistics as a Support Science for Psychology -- 2.3.4. An Argument from Completeness Considerations -- 2.4. An Apparent Paradox and its Resolution -- 2.5. The Ontological Status of Grammars and Languages -- 3. Etiological Analysis of Ungrammaticality -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.1.1 Preliminary Remarks -- 3.1.2. Etiological Properties -- 3.2. A Formal Theory of Etiological Analysis -- 3.3. An Application: Ross Phenomena in Etiological Perspective -- 3.3.1. Etiological Analysis in the Standard Theory. -- 3.3.2. Ross Phenomena and Ecological Deviance -- 3.3.3. The Notion 'Derivation' in Syntactic Theory -- 3.4. A Second Application: Inadmissible to-Contraction. -- 3.5. Etiological Analysis in a Monostratal Theory -- Part II. A Theory of Syntax and Its Applications -- 4. The Framework -- 4.1. General -- 4.2. Frameworks and Theories -- 4.3. Expression and Relations -- 4.3.1. 'Expression' and 'Relation' Defined.

4.3.2. Categorial Representation -- 4.3.3. Expressionhood and Constituency -- 4.3.4. Relational Representation -- 4.4. Expression Structure -- 4.4.1. Criteria for Expressionhood -- 4.4.2. Some Expressions of English and Associated A-rules -- 4.4.3. Further Remarks on Constituency -- 4.5. Relational Structure -- 4.5.1. Relational Inventory -- 4.5.2. Argument Markedness -- 4.6. Arguments and Argument Segments -- 4.7. Metaconditions -- 4.8. Manifestation of Predications in English -- 4.9. Lexical Rules -- 4.10. Analysis of a Small English Fragment -- 4.10.1. Preliminaries -- 4.10.2. The Data -- 4.10.3. Morphology and Lexicon -- 4.10.4. Word Structure -- 4.10.5. Term Structure -- 4.10.6. Predicate Structure. -- 4.10.7. Relation-Assigning Rules -- 4.10.8. Metaconditions -- 4.10.9. Miscellaneous Rules -- 4.10.10. Further Discussion -- 4.10.11. Diagnosticity of the Grammar -- 5. Finite Verb Complementation in English -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The UAC Phenomenon: Independent Motivation for (6) -- 5.3. Further Independent Motivation for (6): Infinitival Complementation -- 5.4. English Dialects Lacking the that-asymmetry -- 5.5. The GB Account of the that-Asymmetry -- 5.6. Subordination Marking and A-Typing -- 6. Infinitival Complementation -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Predicate Composition and Related Phenomena -- 6.2.1. Predicate Composition and the API Construction -- 6.2.2. Case in the API Construction -- 6.2.3. Pronominal Anaphora -- 6.2.4. Ordination Relations in the API Construction -- 6.3. 'Raising' vs. 'Control' -- 6.4. Multiple Potency vs. Control -- 6.4.1. General. -- 6.4.2. Multiple Potency and Quantification -- 6.4.3. Case Marking in Infinitivais -- 6.4.4. Residual Considerations -- 7. Constraints on Predicate Coordination -- 7.1. Introduction. -- 7.2. Formal Correlates of Coordinateness -- 7.3. C-Segmentation.

7.4. Some Consequences of the Principles -- 7.5. Coordination in Complex T's -- 7.6. Sentences with Three or More Conjuncts -- 7.7. A Case Involving Comparison -- 7.8. A Remark on 'Right Node Raising' -- 7.9. Unitary vs. Non-unitary Action -- Peroratio -- Appendix Pedagogical Exercises -- Group A -- Group B -- References -- General Index.