Review: main contents of the book
chapter 1: introduction: 1) competence vs. performance; native speaker?s tacit knowledge of his language; nature of the internalized linguistic system
2) criteria of a theory of grammar: descriptive, universal, explanatory, restrictive, learnability, minimal. 3) principles & parameters
chapter 2 categories and features 1) grammar is structure dependent; category based. 2) determination of categories: morphological (derivational; inflectional) & syntactic (substitution)
evidence 3) types of categories: lexical (N, V, A, ADV, P); functional ( D, P, INFL, COMP) 4) features
chapter 3 structure 1) merge: two kinds of merging operations:
（a） XP (b) XP
X complement specifier X?
X complement 2) feature checking 3) c-command
Chapter 4 empty categories 1) PRO: control verbs such as “want, would like” 2) null INFL 3) null D( DP hypothesis)
Chapter 5 head movement 1) I-to-C (Yes-no questions) 2) V-to-I (negative sentences in earlier modern English) Chapter 6 operator movement wh-operator movement conditions: shortest movement; chain uniformity; island condition Chapter 7 subject-to-subject movement (VP-Internal-subject Hypothesis): expletive sentences Chapter 8 A movement raising predicates(seem, appear, happen, turn out); passive sentences
Chapter 9 VP shells double complements construction: ergative predicates(roll); adjunct position; unaccusative predicates (come) Chapter 10 agreement projections split INFL hypothesis & split VP hypothesis
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