1367260110.5528Understanding Syntax

xContents6.4.4 Split systems II 1896.5 Grammatical relations 1906.5.1 Investigating core grammatical relations 1906.5.2 Subjects: Typical cross-linguistic properties 1906.5.3 An examination of subjects in specific languages 1926.5.4 Objects 1996.6 Free word order: A case study 2016.7 Summary 204Further reading 204Exercises 2057 Processes that change grammatical relations 2117.1 Passives and impersonals 2117.1.1 The passive construction and transitive verbs 2117.1.2 The impersonal construction 2167.2 The antipassive 2177.2.1 Basic facts 2177.2.2 Primary grammatical relations and grammatical pivots 2207.3 The applicative construction 2257.4 The causative construction 2297.5 Summary 233Further reading 233Exercises 2348 Wh-constructions: Questions and relative clauses 2438.1 Wh-questions 2438.1.1 Languages with wh-movement 2438.1.2 Languages with wh-in-situ wh-questions 2478.1.3 Multiple wh-questions 2498.2 Relative clauses 2518.2.1 Relative clauses in English 2518.2.2 Cross-linguistic variation in relative clauses 2548.3 Focus movements and scrambling 2598.4 Some conclusions 261Further reading 262Exercises 2629 Asking questions about syntax 2719.1 Syntactic description: What questions to investigate 2719.2 A case study: Grammatical sketch of colloquial Welsh 2749.3 Some questions concerning syntax 2819.4 Last words: More syntax ahead 284Sources of data used in examples 287Glossary 291References 296Language index 304Subject index 307