Routledge Leading Linguists
About the Book Series
The books in this series, Routledge Leading Linguists, draw together some of the seminal essays from the most important linguists of the last decades. Each book covers one scholar, making the best of his or her work readily accessible and available in one place for the first time.
Structures, Syntactic Computations and Acquisition
1st Edition
By Adriana Belletti
December 18, 2024
This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti published over the last ten years or so, offering readers a useful tool to see the mutual enrichment between linguistic theory and experimental studies on (modes of) language acquisition through her work. The volume ...
Theory and Experiment in Syntax
1st Edition
By Grant Goodall
January 29, 2024
This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall’s previous publications and new work exploring how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them. The volume sheds light on ...
A Minimalist Theory of Simplest Merge
1st Edition
By Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, T. Daniel Seely
May 31, 2023
This collection explicates one of the core ideas underpinning Minimalist theory – explanation via simplification – and its role in shaping some of the latest developments within this framework, specifically the simplest Merge hypothesis and the reduction of syntactic phenomena to third factor ...
Aspects of Grammatical Architecture
1st Edition
By Alain Rouveret
August 14, 2020
This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective. The phenomena that are brought to bear on the architectural issue come from a range of languages, among them French, ...
Biolinguistic Investigations and the Formal Language Hierarchy
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Uriagereka
August 14, 2020
This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in recent years in one comprehensive volume. The book’s introduction lays the foundation for the field of biolinguistics, which looks to integrate concepts from the natural sciences in the...
Diachronic and Comparative Syntax
1st Edition
By Ian Roberts
June 30, 2020
This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts’ pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume. Divided into two parts, the volume engages in recent key topics in empirical ...
The Equilibrium of Human Syntax: Symmetries in the Brain
1st Edition
By Andrea Moro
June 30, 2020
This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained ...
Formal Grammar: Theory and Variation across English and Norwegian
1st Edition
By Terje Lohndal
July 16, 2019
This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach. The book begins by outlining the development of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the work of Noam Chomsky, and moves ...
Merge in the Mind-Brain: Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language
1st Edition
By Naoki Fukui
July 16, 2019
This collection of nine papers brings together Naoki Fukui’s pioneering body of work on Merge, the basic operation of human language syntax, from the two distinct but related perspectives of theoretical syntax and neurosciences. Part I presents an overview of the development of the theory of Merge ...
Explorations in Maximizing Syntactic Minimization
1st Edition
By Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, T. Daniel Seely
February 12, 2018
This volume presents a series of papers written by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, each of which explores fundamental linguistic questions and analytical mechanisms proposed in recent minimalist work, specifically concerning recent analyses by Noam Chomsky. The collection includes eight papers by...
Primitive Elements of Grammatical Theory: Papers by Jean-Roger Vergnaud and His Collaborators
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine McKinney-Bock, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
February 05, 2018
This book is a compilation of manuscripts and publications from 2001-2010 by Jean-Roger Vergnaud, in collaboration with colleagues and students. This work is guided by the scientific belief that broader mathematical principles should guide linguistic inquiry, as they guide classical biology and ...
Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Hierarchies: The Work of Eloise Jelinek in Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley
February 05, 2018
Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic theory, information structure, and several Native American languages (including Lummi, Yaqui, and Navajo). She was one of the very first generative linguists who brought the theoretical implications of the properties of typologically ...