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Thank you for purchasing The Syntax Workbook, 2nd Edition which goes along with the fourth edition of Syntax: A Generative Introduction. This workbook is designed to give you further practice beyond the presentation and exercises in the main text. Syntax often uses big tree diagrams, and the constant cry I’ve heard from students using the first and second editions is that there aren’t enough example diagrams or practice. On the other hand, adding practice exercises with answers would make the main text too big and expensive. So I’ve settled on this optional workbook as an alternative.

You have three different opportunities to practice now:

1 Workbook Exercises (WBE): This workbook contains enrichment and additional practice exercises that go along with each chapter in the book. You can check your own answers against the answer key at the end of each chapter.

2 General Problem Sets (GPS) (in the main textbook): You can do the general problem sets at the end of each chapter in the main textbook. I’m sorry but the answers to these questions are not made available to students. The reason for this is that many instructors use these problem sets as a means for student evaluation. Providing the answers to these would be counterproductive! If you are using the textbook for self-study or your instructor isn’t using the problem sets for evaluation, I encourage you to find a linguistics professor or linguistics (post-)graduate student who can help you with determining if you are on the right track with these.

3 If you are an advanced student or a graduate student, I strongly encourage you to try the Challenge Problem Sets (CPS) at the end of each chapter in the main textbook. These problem sets are designed to make you think critically about the presentation in the text and to think about alternatives and problems that exist for the theory. Again the answers to these cannot be distributed to students.

I hope that you find that the addition of this workbook enriches your syntactic studies and gives you more opportunities to master the material.

This is the second version of this workbook and while we’ve done our best at quality control, it’s possible that some errors have slipped through the student testing, copy- editing, and proofreading processes. I welcome any corrections or suggestions at carnie@arizona.edu. Many people helped produce this book and the textbook, a list of people can be found in the preface to the main textbook. A thank you to them all!

Andrew Carnie

Tucson