Index of Syntactic Rules and Constraints

Anaphoric pronouns, substituting for, 30-31

Center-embedding constraint, 38-40, 43, 103

Complex NP constraint, 105

Conjunct scrambling, 50–55, 148

Conjunction deletion, 73, 75-76

Coordinate structure deletions, 47, 49, 50–55, 135-136, 148

Copula inversion, 78

Doubly-filled complementizer constraint, 37-38, 40, 43, 104-105

Extraposition of PP, 93

Filters: any-placement, 25, 27-28

Gapping, 49, 51, 53-55, 90, 116; backward, 49-52, 54-55

Niching, 78, 81

Passivization, 36–37

Prepositional-phrase (PP) fronting, 23, 27, 37, 59, 61, 78, 81, 90, 93, 112, 115, 118

Pronoun drop, rightward, 148

Right node raising, 53-55, 61; rightward, 53, 55, 148

Tensed S condition, 37-38, 40, 64, 104-105

Topicalization, 40, 41-42, 115, 118

Traces, syntactic, 144

Up-to-ambiguity condition, 40-42

Verb final, 41, 90