Grammar, syntax and morphology

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky.

This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists.

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax.

This is the first book on the syntax of a Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa.

The purpose of this edited volume is to study the structure of the inflectional field and the left peripheral field of clauses, often described as the systems of IP (Inflection Phrase, a syntactic category used to describe clauses without complement clauses) and CP (Complementizer Phrase, a word of phrase marking a complement clause).

Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "e;he,"e; has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied.

The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence.

This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects.

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects.

One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling.

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order.

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories.

Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages.

Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages.

Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents.

Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents.

Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise.

Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise.

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position.

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position.

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines.

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines.

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship.

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship.

In this book, Holmberg and Platzack present a theory of the role which subject-verb agreement and case morphology play in syntax.

Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation.

Language is in large part about the description of events occurring in the world around us.

The study of comparative syntax in closely related languages has yielded valuable insights into syntactic phenomena--for example in the study of the Romance languages--yet little comparative work has been done on English dialects.

Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the world around us, and how we utilize the linguistic resources available to us to conceptualize our experiences, and to communicate successfully.

The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so.

Suffixaufnahme is an unusual pattern of multiple case marking due to agreement: a nominal that is already case-marked for its own adnominal function in addition copies the case of the nominal to which it is to be related.

The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles-and-Parameters approach.

Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type.

Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspective of Government-Binding theory.

The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade.

This book analyzes--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents.

Particles are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech.

This book elaborates a theory of ellipsis that sheds new light on a well-known phenomenon, bringing it under the aegis of general and universal principles.

The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework.

Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating.

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne.

The main function of language is to convey meaning.

Theories of language espoused by linguists during much of this century have assumed that there is a hierarchy to the elements of language such that certain constructions, rules, and features are unmarked while others are marked; "e;play"e; for example, is unmarked or neutral, while "e;played"e; or "e;player"e; is marked.

This collection of previously unpublished papers explores the implications of Chomsky's "e;Minimalist"e; framework for the modularity of grammar, which simplifies the "e;modular"e; approach he took in his Government and Binding theory of grammar.

Shlonsky uses Chomsky's Government and Binding Approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic.

The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction.

The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators.

Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical categories.