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SIL, a group of independent linguists who specialize in language description and bible translation, contains many helpful resources and links, including Free International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) fonts.
Beatrice Santorini and Anthony Kroch's online syntax textbook (an excellent book but watch out for the cases where the formal definitions differ from the ones given in Carnie 2007):
Synthinar, lectures on syntactic theory by Steven Schaufele on James Taubers web page:
Some Journals Which Publish Material on Syntactic Theory
Syntax Blackwell Publishing
Linguistic Inquiry MIT Press
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Springer
Chapter 1 Foundations ^Top
Information on the Scientific Method: http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node5.html http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Education/EDF600/Mod3/
Wikipedia on the Scientific Method
Wikipedia on Hypothesis
Wikipedia on falsifiability
Wikipedia on Generative Grammar
Wikipedia on Syntax
Article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Generative Grammar by Geoff Pullum
General Information on Syntax from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Cognet) by Edwin Williams
Article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Innateness by Kenneth Wexler
Noam Chomsky's Home Page
Wikipedia on Noam Chomsky
CHILDES database of Child Language data, edited by Brian McWhinny
Article on Universal Grammar and Universals by David Pesetsky, from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet)
Wikipedia on Universal Grammar
A short article on Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Grammar by E. Finegan
A short article from the LSA website on Grammar by Sandy Chung and Geoff Pullum
The origins of some prescriptive grammar rules
A paper criticizing the Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on the Poverty of the Stimulus argument by Gary Marcus
Chapter 2 Parts of Speech ^Top
Article on parts of speech from the University of Ottawa writing center:
Article on part of speech tagging for computers from Wikipedia
Article on Parts of speech from Wikipedia
Wikipedia article on subcategorization
Wikipedia article on features
Wikipedia article on transitivity
Wikipedia article on open vs closed class
Wikipedia articles on:
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Auxiliary Verbs
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Chapter 3 Constituency ^Top
Arboreal Syntactic Tree Font from Cascadilla Press
Trees, a program for that allows you to input phrase structure grammars and generate trees, by Tony Kroch and Sean Crist.
Article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Ambiguity by Michael Tanenhaus and Julie Sedivy
Wikipedia article on Constituency Tests
Wikipedia article on Syntactic Ambiguity
Wikipedia article on the formalism of phrase structure grammar
Wikipedia article on Phrase structure rules
Wikipedia article on Context Free Grammars
Tree form program: A useful tool, but not recommended until you are practiced in drawing the trees yourself. Also be careful because it wrongly draws a line between terminals and their categories.
phpSyntaxTree v1.11: A useful tool, but not recommended until you are practiced in drawing the trees yourself. Also be careful because it wrongly draws a line between terminals and their categories:
SVG tree drawer: A useful tool, but not recommended until you are practiced in drawing the trees yourself. Also be careful because it wrongly draws a line between terminals and their categories:
SyNTeX is tree drawing software for those who use LaTeX to edit their documents
Chapter 4 Structural Relations ^Top
Article on grammatical Relations from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) by Ellen Woolford
Structural relations from criticism.com
Wikipedia article on c-command
Beatrice Santorini & Tony Kroch's chapter on structural relations
Chapter 5 Binding Theory ^Top
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Anaphora by Tanya Reinhart
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Binding theory by Tanya Reinhart
Wikipedia article on Anaphora:
Wikipedia article on Binding theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_%28linguistics%29
(see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_and_Binding_Theory )
Chapter 6 X-bar theory ^Top
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-bar_theory
X-bar theory (article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) by Liliane Haegeman)
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on parameter setting by Michel deGraff
Wikipedia article on heads
Chapter 7 CP TP DP ^Top
Wikipedia on Clauses
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Tense and Aspect morphology by Osten Dahl
Article on DP structure by Roberto Zamparelli
Wikipedia on DP
Wikipedia on Complementizers and Complementizer Phrases
Wikipedia on tense
Short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on Functional Projections
Chapter 8 Lexicon ^Top
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on the Lexicon by Jane Grimshaw
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Thematic Roles by James Higginbotham
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on the acquisition of word meaning by Paul Bloom and Lila Gleitman
Wikipedia article on the lexicon
Badly written Wikipedia article on Thematic Roles
Chapter 9 Head Movement ^Top
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on head movement by Lisa Travis
A summary of information on verb movement from the Linguist List by Sharbani Banerji
Short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on head-movement
Short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on movement
Short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on D-structure
Short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on S-structure
Chapter 10 DP Movement ^Top
Wikipedia's list of cases
Wikipedia on Accusative Case
Wikipedia on Nominative Case
Wikipedia on Ergative Case
Wikipedia on Absolutive Case
Wikipedia on Voice
Wikipedia on Trace:
Wikipedia on Raising
Short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on Case Theory
Short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on the Case Filter
Chapter 11 Wh-movement ^Top
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on wh-movement by Gugliemo Cinque
Entry from Linguistics Lexicon on wh-movement
Entry from Linguistics Lexicon on wh-phrase
Entry from Linguistics Lexicon on echo-questions
Short article on Islands from the Linguistics Lexicon
Wikipedia article on Wh-movement including Island effects
Chapter 12 Unified Theory of Movement ^Top
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Minimalism by Howard Lasnik
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Logical Form by Robert May
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Quantifiers by Ed Keenan
The Minimalist Syntax Homepage
The Arizona Minimalist Syntax Archive (AMSA)
Article from Linguistics Lexicon on wh-in-situ
Very short article from Linguistics Lexicon on PF
Short article from Linguistics Lexicon on LF
Short article from Linguistics Lexicon on Quantifier Raising (QR)
Very short article from the Linguistics Lexicon Scope ambiguity
Very short article from the Linguistics Lexicon on Scope
Chapter 14 Advanced Binding ^Top
Linguist List Online conference on binding
Very short article on binding from Wikipedia
Chapter 15 Raising and Control^Top
An article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on Pragmatics by Larry Horn and Gregory Ward
Wikipedia article on Null Subjects
Wikipedia article on Control verbs
Wikipedia article on Raising verbs
Chapter 16 Lexical Functional Grammar ^Top
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on LFG architecture by Mary Dalrymple
Stanford LFG homepage
Essex LFG homepage
Wikipedia article on LFG
Summary of LFG by Ananda Lima
Chapter 17 Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar ^Top
Article from MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Science (Cognet) on HPSG architecture by Georgia Green
Stanford HPSG homepage
Ohio State HPSG homepage
Wikipedia article on HPSG
Summary of HPSG by Ananda Lima
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