1. Toward a nonsentential analysis in generative grammar

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Toward a nonsentential analysis in generative grammar 11
6. 2. The syntax of nonsententials 33
7. 3. “Small structures” 73
8. 4. Neither fragments nor ellipsis 93
9. 5. Big questions, small answers 117
10. 6. Extending the nonsentential analysis 147
11. 7. The narrowing acquisition path 183
12. 8. Nonsententials in second language acquisition 203
13. 9. How language adapts to the brain 229
14. 10. Nonsententials and agrammatism 259
15. 11. Reduced syntax in (prototypical) pidgins 283
16. 12. Copula variation in Guyanese Creole and AAVE 309
17. Epilogue 323
18. Index 355