Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Deep and Surface Sentence Structure; 1.2 Categories and Relations; 1.3 Partial and Complete Grammars; 1.4 Scope of the Thesis; CHAPTER II. THE SUBJECT RELATION; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Surface Subject Defined by Number Agreement; 2.2 Surface Subject Defined by Substitution; 2.3 Underlying Subject and Transitive-Intransitive Verb Pairs; 2.30 Subjectless sentences; 2.31 The car drives easily -- 2.32 Causatives
2.33 Animacy of underlying subjects2.34 Exceptions to 2.33; 2.4 Consequences of Subjectless Sentences; CHAPTER III. VERB AND OBJECT; 3.0 The Determination of Underlying Structure; 3.01 Reflexivization; 3.02 Co-occurrence relations; 3.1 Direct Object; 3.2 Indirect Object; 3.21 -- 3.24 Underlying structure of indirect objects; 3.25 -- 3.27 Related structures; 3.3 Locative and Directional Phrases; 3.31 Their place in the verb phrase; 3.32 Phrase structural versus transformational derivation; 3.33 The relation between locative and directional phrases; 3.4 Derived Direct Object