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This document contains questions about the content of chapters 1-3 from the book "English Syntax: An Introduction" by Andrew Radford. Chapter 1 questions cover topics like Chomsky's approach to language, competence vs performance, Universal Grammar, principles and parameters. Chapter 2 questions discuss parts of speech and grammatical features. Chapter 3 questions are about phrase structure, heads, projections, specifiers, and constituency tests.

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English Syntax: An Introduction, by Andrew Radford

Questions

Chapter 1: Grammar

1. What is a taxonomy?
2. What can you say about Chomsky’s approach to the study of language?
3. What is the difference between competence and performance?
4. What is I-language?
5. What is UG?
6. What criteria must a theory of UG satisfy?
7. How is the grammar of a language organized?
8. What is an acquisition theory?
9. Describe the acquisition process.
10. What does it mean to say that there is a critical period for the acquisition of syntax?
11. What is a principle? Give an example.
12. What is a parameter? Give examples.
13. What kind of evidence is used to set parameters?

Chapter 2: Words

1. What criteria can be used to determine the category of a word?


2. How can you identify a verb, a noun, an adjective, a preposition in English?
3. What is the difference between content words and function words?
4. In what way are determiners different from adjectives?
5. What grammatical properties do personal pronouns encode?
6. In what way are auxiliaries different from lexical verbs?
7. What is the status of infinitival “to”? Why?
8. What is a complementiser?
9. What is a grammatical feature?
10. What can you say about cross-categorial features? What do these features capture?
Give examples.

Chapter 3: Structure

1. How are phrases formed?


2. How can the head of a phrase be identified?
3. Why is it said that constituents like “to help you” are TPs?
4. What does the Headedness Principle state?
5. What does the Binarity Principle claim?
6. What are the problems with the traditional structure assigned to sentences?
7. What is an intermediate projection?
8. What does the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) require?
9. What can you say about specifiers?
10. What is the head of a clause like “that he is here”? Why?
11. What tests can be used to identify constituents? Give examples.
12. What is the Functional Head Constraint (FHC)?
13. What is a node? What kinds of nodes are there?
14. What is c-command? Why is the formulation of this syntactic relation important?

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