Particles and Projections in Irish Syntax: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, cartea 32

1: Theoretical Issues.- 1.1 Explaining Syntactic Universals and Syntactic Variation.- 1.2 Constraints on Phrase-Structure.- 1.3 Conditions on Movement: Deriving Locality.- 1.4 Motivating Syntactic Movement.- 1.5 Summary.- 2: Movement and Mutation Processes In Modern Irish.- 2.0 Introduction.- 2.1 The Scope of Verb-Movement in Irish.- 2.2 Unpacking INFL: The Preverbal Particle System.- 2.3 Mutation in Copular Constructions.- 2.4 Summary.- 3: Conspicuous Absences: Mutation & Extraction In Negated Contexts.- 3.0 Introduction.- 3.1 The Problem of Gan: Mutation And Extraction.- 3.2 Relative Clauses, Narrative Fronting and Topicalization in Irish.- 3.3 Conclusion.- 4: Visible Arguments: Theta-Government And Case In Ulster Irish.- 4.0 Introduction.- 4.1 Deriving SOVX word order.- 4.2 Theta-marking and Extraction in Progressive Contexts.- 4.3 Non-Finite Word-Order and Object Agreement in Southern Dialects.- 4.4 Summary.- 5: Irish Noun Phrases.- 5.0 Introduction.- 5.1 Construct State Nominals and DP Projections.- 5.2 Summary.- References.- Index of Names and Subjects.