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.
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 ...
Towards an Elegant Syntax
1st Edition
By Michael Brody
September 10, 2012
This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. The author shows that although the conceptual difference between 'elegance' and the minimalist search for 'perfection' may appear to be subtle, its consequences are in fact wide ...
Generative Grammar: Theory and its History
1st Edition
By Robert Freidin
March 13, 2012
Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar. The essays collected here display Freidin's role in moving the theory forward in terms of new proposals,...
Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement
1st Edition
By Cedric Boeckx
August 15, 2011
This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory. The essays collected here show how and why agreement has emerged in recent years as the central theoretical construct in minimalism. ...
Derivations: Exploring the Dynamics of Syntax
1st Edition
By Juan Uriagereka
August 12, 2011
Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions within the Minimalist Program. The book persues a naturalistic take on Minimalism, explicitly connecting...
Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory
1st Edition
By Howard Lasnik
October 28, 2004
Professor Howard Lasnik is one of the world's leading theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and important work in areas such as syntactic theory, logical form, and learnability. This collection of essays draws together some of his best work from his substantial contribution to ...
Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure: Subjects, Agreement, Case and Clitics
1st Edition
By Dominique Sportiche
June 22, 1998
This collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time. The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This...