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Syntactic Theory is a new textbook which emphasizes theory-building and hypothesis-testing as it develops and motivates Chomsky's Principles and Parameters framework. The initial chapters guide the student through introductory topics and later chapters cover more advanced topics which form the core empirical background to Chomsky's Minimalist Program. In-text exercises engage the student at every stage of the theory-development process.
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Poole (linguistics, U. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) intends this textbook to be both an introduction to syntactic theory and a book about theory-building how to examine data, formulate and test hypotheses, and evaluate results. Working through the text, the student builds toward a generic version of Chomsky's Government and Binding Theory. A general discussion of the study of language is followed by chapters on specific topics: phrase structure, functional categories, 0-theory and case theory, an introduction to binding theory, movement and chains, logical form, the binding theory and empty categories, the empty category principle, and verb raising and the analysis of Infl. For upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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