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.
On Shell Structure
1st Edition
By Richard K. Larson
February 06, 2017
This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light ...
Typological Studies: Word Order and Relative Clauses
1st Edition
By Guglielmo Cinque
June 08, 2015
In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general ...
A Unification of Morphology and Syntax: Investigations into Romance and Albanian Dialects
1st Edition
By M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia
March 31, 2015
This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland. The empirical base used in the book includes a wealth of previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romansch ...
Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order
1st Edition
By Shigeru Miyagawa
February 27, 2015
Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to ...
Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology
1st Edition
By Edwin Williams
April 22, 2014
Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to...
Theoretical Comparative Syntax: Studies in Macroparameters
1st Edition
By Naoki Fukui
December 11, 2013
Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the typological differences between English/type language and Japanese/type languages, ...
Between Syntax and Semantics
1st Edition
By C.T. James Huang
August 06, 2013
This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events....
Structures and Strategies
1st Edition
By Adriana Belletti
August 06, 2013
Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax and the syntax of verb-related phenomena of agreement and ...
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads: Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman
1st Edition
By Hilda J Koopman
November 14, 2012
Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and...
Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition
1st Edition
By Luigi Rizzi
September 10, 2012
In this collection of essays, the author addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acquisition. Key topics are explored, including the properties of null elements and the theory of parameters. Some of the essays presented ...
Configurations of Sentential Complementation: Perspectives from Romance Languages
1st Edition
By Johan Rooryck
September 10, 2012
The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework of generative grammar.The first part of the book focuses on infinitival complements. The author ...
Essays in Syntactic Theory
1st Edition
By Samuel David Epstein
September 10, 2012
The essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. Key topics covered include movement phenomena and the syntax of logical form, methods in generative linguistics and the role of rules vs. principles in syntactic theory. This volume ...