Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- General Preface -- Abbreviations -- Symbols Used -- Part 1. Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. What this book is about -- 1.2. Organizational notes -- 1.3. Apples, oranges, and pears -- 1.4. Who I assume you are -- 2. Constituent Structure -- 2.1. Constituent structure as simple concatenation -- 2.2. Regular grammars -- 2.3. Constituent structure and constituency tests -- 2.4. Compositionality, modification, and ambiguity -- 2.5. Some concluding thoughts -- 3. Basic Properties of Trees: Dominance and Precedence -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Tree structures -- 3.3. Dominance -- 3.4. Precedence -- 3.5. Concluding remarks -- 4. Second Order Relations: C-command and Government -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Command, kommand, c-command, and m-command -- 4.3. Government -- 4.4. Concluding remarks -- Part 2. Phrase Structure Grammars and X-bar Theory -- 5. Capturing Constituent Structure: Phrase Structure Grammars -- 5.1. Before the Chomskyan revolution: Conflating semantic and structural relations -- 5.2. Phrase structure grammars -- 5.3. Phrase markers and reduced phrase markers -- 5.4. Regular grammars -- context-free and context-sensitive grammars -- 5.5. The recursive nature of phrase structure grammars -- 5.6. The ontology of PSRs and trees -- 5.7. The information contained in PSRs -- 6. Extended Phrase Structure Grammars -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Some minor abbreviatory conventions in PSGs -- 6.3. Transformations -- 6.4. Features and feature structures -- 6.5. Metarules -- 6.6. Linear precedence vs. immediate dominance rules -- 6.7. Meaning postulates (GPSG), f-structures, and metavariables (LFG) -- 6.8. The lexicon -- 6.9. Conclusion -- 7. X-bar Theory -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Simple PSGs vs. X-bar theoretic PSGs -- 7.3. A short history of X-bar theory -- 7.4. Summary.

Part 3. Controversies -- 8. Towards Set-Theoretic Constituency Representations -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Projections and derived X-bar theory -- 8.3. Antisymmetry -- 8.4. Bare Phrase Structure -- 9. Dependency and Constituency -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Systems based primarily on grammatical relations -- 9.3. Dependency grammars -- 9.4. Categorial grammars -- 9.5. Functionalist Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar -- 9.6. Construction Grammar and Cognitive Grammar -- 10. Multidominated, Multidimensional, and Multiplanar Structures -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Line crossing and multidomination: axiomatic restrictions on form -- 10.3. Multidomination and multidimensional trees -- 10.4. Multiplanar structures -- 10.5. Conclusions -- 11. Phrasal Categories and Cartography -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. The tripartite structure of the clause -- 11.3. The VP -- 11.4. The clausal layer -- 11.5. The informational layer -- 11.6. Negation and adverbials -- 11.7. NPs and DPs -- 11.8. Concluding remarks -- 12. New Advances -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. López (2009): The violable Two-Step LCA -- 12.3. "Third factor" effects on constituency: Carnie and Medeiros (2005), Medeiros (2008) -- 12.4. Decomposing Merge: Boeckx (2008), Hornstein and Nuñes (2008), and Hornstein (2009) -- 12.5. Minimalist Dependency Grammar -- 12.6. Postscript -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.