Thematic Structure in Syntax

23x15cm, xi, 266 pp, Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 23. Contents: Juncture & Clause Structure: The Basic Structure of the Clause; A Classification of Junctures; Restrictive Modification; Theta Role Assignment & Predication: Properties of Theta Roles & Relations; Predication; Function Composition; Extraction & Adjuncts: The Scopal ECP; Events; Small Clauses: The Theta Criterion & the Opacity Condition; Adjunct Cotnrol; Complex Predicates & Small Clauses; NP-Movement & the Subject: Assumptions; Movement to the Subject Position; The VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis; Object Scrambling; Verb Movement: Emonds & Pollock on the Difference Between English & French; Larson's Verb Movement, Heavy NP Shift, Precedence, & the Binding Theory; Verb Movements; Binding Theory & Theta Theory: The Subject Matter of the Binding Theory; The Binding- Theoretic Nature of the "Argument Of" Relation; General Reconstruction Effects; The Hybrid Binding Theory.