It is a type of syntax that studies how sentences are transformed from one form to another, like from active to passive voice.
Syntactic Categories: This topic deals with the different categories of words in a language including noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, conjunction and interjection.
Constituency: This topic focuses on the grouping of words into phrases, clauses and sentences.
Phrase Structure Grammar: It is a formal type of grammar that describes the structure of phrases in a language.
Deep Structure and Surface Structure: These are two levels of representation of a sentence, where deep structure is the underlying meaning of a sentence and surface structure represents the actual words used in a sentence.
Phrase Structure Rules: These are formal rules used to generate well-formed phrases in a language.
Transformations: These are rules that convert one sentence structure into another.
Movement: This topic deals with the re-positioning of a word or phrase in a sentence for emphasis or clarity.
Case Theory: It is a theory that explains how nouns and pronouns are assigned case in a sentence.
Binding Theory: This theory explains how pronouns and nouns are related in a sentence.
Control Theory: This theory explains how a subject is controlled in a sentence.
Government and Binding Theory: It is a theory that explains the relationship between different components of a sentence, including the subject and the verb.
Minimalism: It is a recent approach to syntax that aims to minimize the number of grammatical features needed to explain language.
Syntax-Semantics Interface: This topic deals with the relationship between the structure of a sentence and its meaning.
Cross-linguistic Variation in Syntax: This topic explores the differences and similarities in the syntax of different languages.
Psycholinguistics: It is the study of how language is processed in the brain, including the processing of syntax.
Generative Grammar: A theory in which sentences are generated based on a set of rules to form a language.
Chomskyan Transformational-Generative Grammar: A specific form of generative grammar based on the work of Noam Chomsky.
Government-Binding (GB) Theory: A framework of syntax that reinterprets the principles of generative grammar, while modifying the structures that support it.
Minimalist Program: A framework of syntax that seeks to minimize the amount of structure necessary to form sentences, while still maintaining meaning.
Transformational Syntax of English: A specific theory of syntax that applies transformative rules in order to generate English sentences.