3.3 Conclusion

In this chapter we have briefly set down many of the theoretical mechanisms which we will be using in the rest of the book to describe syntactic phenomena in English. There is a lot more to say on theoretical issues and many differences of opinion as to how they should be formulated. However, as it is not our intention to teach all the details of the theory, but merely to use it, we will not go into these issues and the interested reader is directed to other text books, such as Haegeman (1994), Webelhuth (1995) or Radford (2004) for more detailed discussion on theoretical issues.