Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories

David Pesetsky

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 66
• A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar. In thi... Lees meer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Locality in Minimalist Syntax

Thomas S. (Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City) Stroik

• Hardcover | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• This minimalist study proposes that the computational system of human language must consist of strictly local operations. 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

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

Locality in Vowel Harmony

Andrew Nevins

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 55
• A view of the locality conditions on vowel harmony, aligning empirical phenomena within phonology with the principles of the Minimalist program. Vowel... 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

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

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

Arguments as Relations

John Bowers

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 58
• A radically new approach to argument structure in the minimalist program. In Arguments as Relations , John Bowers proposes a radically new approach to... 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

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

Arguments as Relations

John Bowers

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs | nr. 58
• A radically new approach to argument structure in the minimalist program. In Arguments as Relations , John Bowers proposes a radically new approach to... 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

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