Review of: Syntactic Theory: A formal introduction
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Finding an appropriate textbook for an introductory course on syntactic theory has become difficult. Since most attempt to portray a more or less current version of generative transforma-tional theory (TG), they tend to become obsolete fairly rapidly and the trace-per-morpheme average in phrase structure representations rises dramatically as a function of up-to-dateness. Given that the trace-heavy popular analyses that recent TG textbooks rely on often seem to be
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