A collection of slides reproducing figures from the book and summarizing key points is available below. Please note that the files are currently only available as a list of compressed pdfs, but we will add Powerpiont slides shortly.
Please note that these slides are password protected.
Course slides to go with chapters 1-15 (PDF format)
- 1.
- Foundation
- 2.1
- Part of Speech
- 3.1
- Constituency: the basic units of sentence structure
- 3.2
- Phrase Structure: the formal means of representing constituency
- 3.3
- Drawing Trees & Ambiguity in Trees
- 3.4
- Figuring Out Categories and Phrase Structure in Other Languages
- 4.1
- Structural Relations: the mathematical properties of phrase structure trees
- 5.3
- Binding Theory: describing relationships between nouns
- 6.1
- Another look at PSRs: Intermediate Structure: starting X-bar theory
- 6.2
- Properties of X-bar: complements, adjuncts & specifiers
- 6.3
- Drawing X-bar trees
- 7.1
- Clause Types: a descriptive tangent into the types of clauses
- 8.1
- The Lexicon: constraining X-bar theory using the mental dictionary
- 9.1
- Head to head movement: deriving word orders that x-bar theory can't account for
- 10.1
- DP Movement - Passives, Raising: when DPs are not in their theta positions
- 11.1
- Wh Movement: movement of question phrases
- 11.2
- Locality Restraints
- 12.1
- A Unified Theory of Movement
- 13.1
- Split VPs: Resolving some problems with X-bar theory using movement
- 14.1
- Raising vs. Control: Or don't judge a book by its cover
- 15.1
- Advanced Topics in Binding Theory
- 19
- The Minimalist Program: Less is More
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