Springer, 2017. — 246 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 93). This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties. The birth of the Principles and Parameters Approach makes it possible...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 337 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The papers in this collection all deal with the concept of locality in syntactic theory and more specifically relate to the various contributions Luigi Rizzi has made in this connection over the past three and a half decades. The authors are all either former students of Rizzi’s or colleagues and...
Springer, 1999. — 283 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43). This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, as well as a general introduction by the editors. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate clearly how much the...
Springer, 2011. — 207 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 84). This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject. The author re-evaluates—and forges links between—two influential theories of phrase structure: Chomsky’s Bare Phrase Structure and Richard...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 380 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this...
Springer, 2022. — 224 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 101). This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others. Starting from a close scrutiny of the environments in which subjunctive mood occurs and of its...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 287 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. These eight articles go beyond strictly mapping syntactic properties, touching on broader theoretical questions related to Chomsky’s Minimalist Program...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 369 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 309 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The essays collected in this volume originate, directly or indirectly, from the Certificat de specialisation en theorie syntaxique et syntaxe comparative which was held at the University of Geneva in 1989-90. This program gave rise to a substantive body of research in comparative syntax which...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 348 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The empirical work on sentence structure over the last several years has been advanced by the so-called cartographic program, which aims to provide a map of the functional projections in clausal architecture; in the framework of this project, a highly articulated functional structure has been...
Springer, 1994. — 213 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30). Case, Scope, and Binding investigates the relation between syntax and semantics within a framework which combines the syntactic Government-Binding theory with a novel cross-linguistic theory of case and semantics. It is argued that case assignment, agreement, syntactic binding relations, as well...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 242 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This edited volume presents the first results of a long term research project, funded by the Italian Government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. Structural representations are seen to arise from the...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 313 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The present volume intends to contribute to our understanding of the grammar of spatial prepositional phrases by focusing on one particular aspect of their syntax that has remained relatively neglected: the fine-grained articulation of their internal structure. The analyses presented in the book,...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 288 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). One of the world’s leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 232 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with connections to other language groups as well. The...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997. — 375 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 155). Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995 In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches. The papers in the present...
Springer, 2000. — 233 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 50). Though centered on Italian, cross-linguistic analysis is extensively provided: data from languages as diverse as English, Hungarian, Modern Greek, Hausa, Chichewa, Serbo-Croatian and Somali are used to show that despite surface variations, the interface interpretation of Focus and Topic lies in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 264 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics). Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of the weak points of other formal...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 333 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages. The book argues that the dissimilar surface characteristics of these languages (primarily English and Romance, but also Gungbe, Hungarian,...
Walter de Gruyter, 1993. — 1047 S. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 9.1). Die Syntax als die Disziplin der Linguistik, die den Satzbau zum Gegenstand hat, ist heute in eine Vielfalt einzelner Schulen zerfallen, die sich oft radikal in ihren Zielen und Methoden unterscheiden. Diese Schulenvielfalt ist z.T. darauf zurückzuführen, daß traditionelle,...
Walter de Gruyter, 1989. — 623 S. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 9.2). Die Syntax als die Disziplin der Linguistik, die den Satzbau zum Gegenstand hat, ist heute in eine Vielfalt einzelner Schulen zerfallen, die sich oft radikal in ihren Zielen und Methoden unterscheiden. Diese Schulenvielfalt ist z.T. darauf zurückzuführen, daß traditionelle,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 435 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 43). This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters address a central theoretical issue in diachronic syntax: whether syntactic variation can always be attributed to differences in the...
Anma Libri, 1976. — 197 p. — (Studia linguistica et philologica 4). Eve V. Clark - Universal Categories: On the Semantics of Classifiers and Children's early Word Meanings Paul Friedrich - The Devil's Case: PIE as Type II Talmy Givon - On the SOV Origin of the Suffixal Agreement Conjugation in Indo-European and Semitic F.W. Householder - Inference or Presupposition? Kung-Yi Kao...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 394 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book presents a collection of recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. It focuses on both comparative syntax, which uses differences between languages as a new and fine-grained tool for illuminating properties of the human language faculty, and...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects, together forming a strongly cohesive set that will...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 449 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the course of his career to...
Springer, 2019. — 331 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 96). This book takes Korean as a basis to provide a detailed universal Determiner Phrase (DP) structure. Adnominal adjectival expressions are apparently optional noun dependents but their syntax and semantics have been shown to provide an important window on the internal structure of DP. By carefully...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 816 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 42.1). This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 652 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 42.2). This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 656 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 42.2). This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 707 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 42.3). This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 708 p. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 42.3). This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic...
Springer, 1998. — 352 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 42). Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling,...
MDPI, 2025. — 248 p. This volume brings together cutting-edge research on the syntax-discourse interface, featuring eleven studies by prominent scholars that address the widely debated issue of the relationship between syntax and pragmatics. The focus is on which pragmatic features and categories should be projected in syntax in order to provide formal explanations for...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 220 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains dialects that are different in most ways yet homogenous syntactically, making it an ideal ground for analyzing...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 376 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The purpose of this edited volume is to study the structure of the inflectional field and the left peripheral field of clauses, often described as the systems of IP (Inflection Phrase, a syntactic category used to describe clauses without complement clauses) and CP (Complementizer Phrase, a word...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 329 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book establishes the need for a competitive approach to the distribution and interpretation of anaphoric relations in natural language, and makes a particular proposal about the sort of competitive theory of anaphora that might be on the right track. Linguists are especially interested in...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 369 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Functional sequencing has been one of the major empirical goals of the 20-year old cartographic enterprise in Syntax. The papers in this collection extend this goal in several directions. Several chapters consider the impact of functional sequence on the semantics and pragmatics of focus. Others...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This book is a Festschrift for Tarald Taraldsen. It consists of nine chapters on central issues in theoretical comparative syntax. The first three chapters deal with subject extraction, null subjects, the que/qui alternation, and relative clause formation. One chapter presents arguments that...
Springer, 1999. — 241 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 44). The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. The basis claim defended in this book is that all elements that follow the main...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 250 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). This work represents the first full scale attempt to provide a restrictive theory of parameters the nature and limits of syntactic variation. Focusing on syntactic saturation, Webelhuth hypothesizes that in natural language these phenomena are subject to the “Saturation Condition.” He explains...