Interface Strategies

Tanya Reinhart

• Paperback | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• Taking Chomsky's hypothesis of optimal design as a starting point, repair strategies based on computing reference-sets apply in restricted areas of th... Lees meer

Recent Transformational Studies in European Languages

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 3
• Original linguistic research in European languages from Linguistic Inquiry. This is the third publication in the Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series, ... Lees meer

The Final-Over-Final Condition

Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 76
• An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. Th... Lees meer

Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

Ken Hale, Samuel Jay Keyser

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 39
• This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It ... Lees meer

Relativized Minimality

Luigi Rizzi

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 16
• This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax. This monograph presents an important extension of government-bi... Lees meer

On the Nature of Grammatical Relations

Alec P. (Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, New York Unive

• Paperback | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• This book presents a theory of grammatical relations among sentential constituents which is a development of Chomsky's Government-Binding Theory. Lees meer

A Syntax of Substance

David Adger

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 64
• In A Syntax of Substance , David Adger proposes a new approach to phrase structure that eschews functional heads and labels structures exocentrically.... Lees meer

Where Does Binding Theory Apply?

David Lebeaux

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 50
• An exploration of the architecture of the grammar, where conditions apply, and the nature of the lexical/functional split. This concise but wide-rangi... Lees meer

The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation

Zeljko Boskovic

• Paperback | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• The author completes two major research projects within the Minimalist Program: the elimination of c-selection and government. He then investigates in... Lees meer

Features of Person

Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 78
• A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression. Th... Lees meer

Provocative Syntax

Phil (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Branigan

• Paperback | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• A new theory of syntactic movement within a Chomskyan framework. Lees meer

Thematic Structure in Syntax

Edwin (Princeton University) Williams

• Paperback | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• This important monograph summarizes, rethinks, and extends a decade of the author's work on therole assignments--the ways in which the roles implied b... Lees meer

A Selectional Theory of Adjunct Control

Idan Landau

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• A novel, systematic theory of adjunct control, explaining how and why adjuncts shift between obligatory and nonobligatory control. Control in adjuncts... Lees meer

Uttering Trees

Norvin Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 56
• A study of the interface between syntax and phonology that seeks deeper explanations for such syntactic problems as case phenomena and the distributio... Lees meer

Morphology by Itself

Mark Aronoff

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 22
• Most recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely morphological phenomena and has focused instead on interface questio... Lees meer

Merge

Barbara Citko, Martina Gracanin-Yuksek

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 83
• An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects. In this book, Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-... Lees meer

Indefinite Objects

Luis Lopez

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 63
• A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects , Luis López presents a novel a... Lees meer

Composing Questions

Hadas Kotek

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 80
• An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh ... Lees meer

Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations

Hisatsugu Kitahara

• Paperback | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• Hisatsugu Kitahara advances Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program (1995) with a number of innovative proposals. Lees meer

Where Does Binding Theory Apply?

David Lebeaux

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 50
• This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines where the conditions of binding theory apply and in doing so considers the nature of phrase structure... Lees meer

Barriers

Noam Chomsky

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 13
• This monograph explores several complex questions concerning the theories of government and bounding, including, in particular, the possibility of a u... Lees meer

Agreement and Head Movement

Ian Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 59
• An argument that, contrary to Chomsky, head-movement is part of the narrow syntax. In Agreement and Head Movement , Ian Roberts explores the consequen... Lees meer

A Grammar of Anaphora

Joseph E Aoun

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 11
• The study of anaphoric expressions--especially reflexives and reciprocals--has played an increasingly important role in linguistic theory. Within the ... Lees meer

Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement

Jairo Nunes

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 43
• This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives... Lees meer