SubjectsLinguistics / Generative linguistics
Book series
ISSN 1877-6531
Journals
Lingvisticæ Investigationes
International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources
Edited by Jorge Baptista, Cédrick Fairon, Natalia Grabar and Corinne Rossari
ISSN 0378-4169 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9927
Yearbook
Linguistic Variation Yearbook
General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
ISSN 1568-1483 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9900
Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface
Edited by Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach
Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface offers a comprehensive investigation of two word classes that play a crucial role at the interfaces and have posed challenges for linguistic theory. Drawing on a broad typological range, including Germanic, Romance, Basque, and Heritage Greek,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 292] 2026. vi, 384 pp.
Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues
Edited by Francesco Maria Ciconte and Michela Cennamo
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 26:1 (2026) v, 220 pp.
The New Arabic Lexicon and its Words: Root-based and templatic morphosyntax
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 21] 2026. xi, 285 pp.
New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference
Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul
This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers, and make connections between second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] 2026. vi, 389 pp.
New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Studies in honor of C.-T. James Huang
Edited by Andrew Simpson
This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 290] 2026. viii, 489 pp.
Null or Nothing: Zero elements in Romance syntax and morphology
Edited by Peter Herbeck and Natascha Pomino
Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 291] 2026. ix, 379 pp.
Silent Instruments: Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian
Alice Suozzi
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 293] 2026. xiv, 217 pp.
Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell
Edited by María J. Arche, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer
This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language, grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the field of Linguistics… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] 2025. xiii, 368 pp.
Le verbe vouloir dans tous ses états
Edited by Anouch Bourmayan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:1 (2025) v, 177 pp.
Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective
Edited by Pilar Barbosa and Cristina Flores
The volume Null Objects from a Cross-Linguistic and Developmental Perspective brings together theoretical and empirical contributions on missing object constructions, revealing a nuanced and multifaceted phenomenon that poses challenges to current theories of null objects. The selected papers… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 19] 2025. v, 206 pp.
Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage
Edited by Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 48:2 (2025) v, 257 pp.
The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky
Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins
What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read more
Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference
Edited by Marta Velnić, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug
This volume comprises studies and keynote addresses presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference hosted by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, in Trondheim in 2022. The selection of cutting-edge studies presented covers a wide array of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 70] 2024. vii, 402 pp.
Elementary Predicates and Related Categories
Ludovico Franco
This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives. This book reveals, through a series of case studies, the pervasive role of the 'inclusion' relator across… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 285] 2024. ix, 217 pp.
La Référence Floue
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.
Methods for Studying Variation in Partitives
Edited by Petra Sleeman and Anne Tamm
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 24:2 (2024) v, 207 pp.
The Unity of Movement: Evidence from verb movement in Cantonese
Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in terms of transformation, or more precisely, movement, which establishes dependencies among syntactic constituents in a phrase structure. This book probes… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 283] 2024. xxii, 214 pp.
Wh-island Effects in Chinese: A formal experimental study
Xu Chen
This book examines three controversial generalizations concerning wh-island effects in Chinese: argument and adjunct asymmetry, subject and object asymmetry, and D-linked and non-D-linked asymmetry. Experiments under the factorial definition of island effects reveal that: (1) both argument and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 282] 2024. xix, 173 pp.
Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance: A Nested-Agree approach
Irene Amato
This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 281] 2023. xvi, 264 pp.
Differential Object Marking in Romance: Towards microvariation
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Alexandru Mardale
Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 280] 2023. viii, 350 pp.
Dire et ses marqueurs: approches contrastives
Edited by Laurence Rouanne
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:2 (2023) v, 169 pp.
Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation
Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 23:1 (2023) v, 243 pp.
Retour(s) sur la cataphore
Edited by Anne Theissen and Annie Kuyumcuyan
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 46:1 (2023) v, 146 pp.
A0 – The Lexical Status of Adjectives
Edited by Phoevos Panagiotidis and Moreno Mitrović
This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives? Although the positioning of adjectives as well as aspects of their semantics have been investigated in depth, their actual status as a lexical category has generally been… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 17] 2022. v, 295 pp.
Arabic Dislocation
Ali A. Alzayid
Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 271] 2022. xii, 240 pp.
Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects
Edited by Xabier Artiagoitia, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte
Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon exists in other languages as well, and provides evidence for their nature… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 276] 2022. vi, 258 pp.
From Pseudo-relatives to Causative Constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study
Mara Frascarelli and Giorgia Di Lorenzo
This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism. Causatives are claimed to instantiate a ‘complex object’ construction, insofar as the causee is not only the subject of the lexical verb, but also a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 278] 2022. vii, 133 pp.
Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference
Edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli
This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 67] 2022. vii, 318 pp.
La phraséologie dans les interactions orales et écrites
Edited by Gaétane Dostie and Agnès Tutin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:2 (2022) v, 221 pp.
Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena
Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani
This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. viii, 255 pp.
Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
Edited by Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross
Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 274] 2022. vii, 342 pp.
Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
Edited by Guillermo Lorenzo
This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 36] 2022. ix, 218 pp.
Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing
Jun Abe
This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh-phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge:… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 277] 2022. viii, 204 pp.
Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] 2021. vi, 328 pp.
Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation
Edited by Víctor Acedo-Matellán, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 21:1 (2021) v, 279 pp.
Lexicalising Clausal Syntax: The interaction of syntax, the lexicon and information structure in Hungarian
Tibor Laczkó
The book presents a new perspective on clausal syntax and its interactions with lexical and discourse function information by analysing Hungarian sentences. It also demonstrates ways in which grammar engineering implementations can provide insights into how complex linguistic processes interact. It… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 354] 2021. xiii, 353 pp.
Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Edited by Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński
Control, typically defined as a specific referential dependency between the null-subject of a non-finite embedded clause and a co-dependent of the matrix predicate, has been subject to extensive research in the last 50 years. While there is a broad consensus that a distinction between Obligatory… read more
Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 266] 2021. xiv, 252 pp.
The Syntax of Information-Structural Agreement
Johannes Mursell
In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement. So far, the syntactic contribution of this type of feature has mostly been reduced to movement of topics or foci clause-initial position. Here, the author looks at a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 268] 2021. xii, 280 pp.
A Theory of Distributed Number
Myriam Dali and Eric Mathieu
The objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number. Using insights from Generative syntax and Distributed Morphology, we develop a theory of distributed number, arguing that number can be associated with several functional heads and that these… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 269] 2021. xi, 153 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference
Edited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel
This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other languages (e.g., English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish).Specifically,… read more
Beyond Emotions in Language: Psychological verbs at the interfaces
Edited by Bożena Rozwadowska and Anna Bondaruk
This book sheds new light on the puzzle of psychological predicates in a cross-linguistic perspective by looking at them from a variety of angles at the interfaces between event structure, lexical and viewpoint aspect, syntax and information structure. The individual chapters focus on Polish and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 263] 2020. xiii, 325 pp.
Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais
Edited by Roberta Pires De Oliveira, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin
This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics. The chapters climb down the spine from the left periphery to DP: the value of subjunctive across the history of German, expressive expressions in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 260] 2020. ix, 216 pp.
Interfaces in Romance: A constraint-based approach
Edited by Gabriela Bîlbîie
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.
Les variations diatopiques dans les expressions figées
Sous la direction de Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, Aude Grezka et Lucía Navarro-Brotons
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 43:2 (2020) vi, 211 pp.
Norwegian Verb Particles
Leiv Inge Aa
This book aims to explain the syntax and semantics of Norwegian verb particles. While particles have been claimed to be distributed optionally to the left (as LPrt) or right (as RPrt) of an associated DP in the linguistic literature, the dialectologically oriented literature has shown for a long… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 4] 2020. ix, 184 pp.
Past Participle Agreement: A study on the grammaticalization of formal features
Jorge Vega Vilanova
In this book, the traditional definition of ‘grammaticalization’ is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 265] 2020. xix, 236 pp.
Right Peripheral Fragments: Right dislocation and related phenomena in Romance
Javier Fernández-Sánchez
In recent years, a number of authors (De Vries 2009, Truckenbrodt 2015, Ott and de Vries 2016, inter alia) have defended that right dislocations (RD) should be treated as bisentential structures, where the “dislocated” constituent is actually a remnant of a clausal ellipsis operation licensed under… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 258] 2020. ix, 214 pp.
Silently Structured Silent Argument
Yuta Sakamoto
Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ? children know the syntax of silence despite the fact that they do not have direct access to it throughout their language acquisition process. One of the issues that have been hotly discussed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 259] 2020. xiii, 266 pp.
Stative Inquiries: Causes, results, experiences, and locations
Alfredo García-Pardo
This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure. It focuses on two sets of stative verbs: govern-type verbs and object experiencer psychological verbs. For govern-verbs, it shows how… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 264] 2020. xiv, 258 pp.
Variation in phonology
Edited by Péter Szigetvári
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:1 (2020) v, 171 pp.
A typology of the mass/count distinction in Brazil and its relevance for mass/count theories
Edited by Suzi Oliveira de Lima and Susan Rothstein
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20:2 (2020) vi, 247 pp.
A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
Gertjan Postma
Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 248] 2019. xxxi, 312 pp.
A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2
Giuseppe Samo
This volume provides a mechanism to uncover the extremely rich split-CP of V2 languages, in both root and embedded clauses, on the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical findings. The movement of the inflected verbal head is triggered to agree with the profiled informational value of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 257] 2019. xi, 215 pp.
Differential objects and datives – a homogeneous class?
Edited by Monica Alexandrina Irimia and Anna Pineda
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 42:1 (2019) v, 131 pp.
Interfaces in Grammar
Edited by Jianhua Hu and Haihua Pan
This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical components in Chinese and other languages. With contributions by Edward L. Keenan, Henk van Riemsdijk, Alain Rouveret, and scholars in Chinese Linguistics, this volume investigates the… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 15] 2019. vi, 371 pp.
Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces
Edited by Silvio Cruschina, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger
Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 251] 2019. vi, 369 pp.
Noun Phrases in Article-less Languages: Uzbek and beyond
Lola Türker
This book is a theoretically oriented, comparative study of noun phrases and their semantic and morpho-syntactic properties. This is the first study that provides a comprehensive analysis of the nominal structure in Uzbek, and compares it with corresponding structures in other article and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 253] 2019. xiv, 182 pp.
Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes: The case of Slavic
Petr Biskup
This monograph is concerned with prepositional elements in Slavic languages, prepositions, verbal prefixes and functional elements of prepositional nature. It argues that verbal prefixes are incorporated prepositions projecting their argument structure in the complement of the verbal root and that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 255] 2019. vii, 231 pp.
Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edited by Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli
This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 63] 2019. vi, 358 pp.
A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 19:1 (2019) v, 198 pp.
The Locus of Linguistic Variation
Edited by Constantine Lignos, Laurel MacKenzie and Meredith Tamminga
This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors explore variation in several domains, addressing intra- and inter-dialectal patterns, using diverse sources of data including corpora of… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 97] 2018. x, 193 pp.
Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis: Clausal architecture and licensing conditions
Mari Nygård
This book develops a grammar model which accounts for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. This is a previously unexplored area, which has also been sparsely investigated internationally. The model takes an exoskeletal view, where lexical items are inserted late and where syntactic structure is… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2] 2018. xii, 245 pp.
Romance Parsed Corpora
Edited by Christina Tortora, Beatrice Santorini and Frances Blanchette
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.
Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
Current theoretical approaches to language devote great attention to macro- and micro-variation and show an ever-increasing interest in minority languages. In this respect, few empirical domains are as rich and lively as the Italo-Romance languages, which together with Albanian were the main… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 252] 2018. viii, 395 pp.
Variation in C: Comparative approaches to the Complementizer Phrase
Edited by Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 18:2 (2018) v, 225 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference
Edited by Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). The contributions cover a wide range of topics and their significance in generative theorizing.The papers about morphosyntax focus on the formation of comparative clauses,… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 15] 2017. x, 255 pp.
Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: An integral approach
Albert Wall
Over the last three decades, Brazilian Portuguese bare nominals have turned into a hot topic in the cross-linguistic study of nominal syntax and semantics. This contribution is the first comprehensive, book-length treatment of the issue, covering both the long-standing discussion about the adequate… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 245] 2017. xv, 322 pp.
Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte
Edited by Olga Fernández-Soriano, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces. A primary notion is that phases are the appropriate domains to explain most interface linguistic phenomena and that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 239] 2017. viii, 369 pp.
Choosing a Grammar: Learning paths and ambiguous evidence in the acquisition of syntax
Isaac Gould
This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax. To illustrate this, the book introduces a probabilistic learning model for syntactic parameters that learns a grammar of best fit to the learner’s evidence. The model is then applied to a range of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 238] 2017. ix, 332 pp.
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE
Alexandra D'Arcy
Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.
On the Syntax of Missing Objects: A study with special reference to English, Polish, and Hungarian
Marta Ruda
Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments. In addition to offering detailed discussion and analyses of a unique combination of three very different systems (English, Polish, and Hungarian), a larger goal here is to… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 244] 2017. xvii, 195 pp.
Putting Adpositions in Place: Sortal domains and modifier PPs in Japanese
Kaori Takamine
This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hierarchically arranged and (ii) there is an interesting fine-grained correlation between different PP types and Modal/Aspect functors which indicates that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 240] 2017. xi, 255 pp.
Register Variation and Syntactic Theory
Edited by Diane Massam and Tim Stowell
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:2 (2017) v, 198 pp.
Syntactic Variation and Change
Edited by David Håkansson, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 17:1 (2017) iii, 148 pp.
Syntax: An Introduction to Minimalism
Elly van Gelderen
Using a concise and clear style, this book highlights insights from current syntactic theory and minimalism. Chapter 1 starts with the general idea behind generative grammar and should be read from a big picture perspective. Because the book expects no prior syntactic background, its next two… read more[Not in series, 214] 2017. xvi, 159 pp.
Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition
Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Hélène Vassiliadou
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus
Andreas Konietzko
This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 233] 2016. xi, 182 pp.
Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 235] 2016. xvii, 238 pp.
Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches
Edited by Véronique Lacoste and Lisa Green
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:1 (2016) v, 150 pp.
Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide
"Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly understood concepts of linguistic theory”. This was eloquently stated by Ledgeway (2000, 2007) and remains true even today. The present volume thus aims… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 231] 2016. vi, 346 pp.
Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis
Iván Ortega-Santos
Syntactic movement is a pervasive phenomenon in natural language and, as such, has played a key role in syntactic theorizing. Nonetheless, an understanding of the mechanism that allows a constituent to appear to the right of its base-generated position has remained elusive. This groundbreaking… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7] 2016. xii, 204 pp.
Formal Studies in Slovenian Syntax: In honor of Janez Orešnik
Edited by Franc Lanko Marušič and Rok Žaucer
Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models, the attention it gets has subsequently grown, so that by now it has contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data. With 13 chapters that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 236] 2016. vi, 335 pp.
Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects
Edited by Werner Frey, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe
This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses. Sentential proforms are highly interesting from the point of view of grammatical theory, since their occurrence is determined not only by syntax, but also by prosody and semantics. The present volume… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 232] 2016. v, 278 pp.
Lexical plurals and beyond
Edited by Peter Lauwers and Marie Lammert
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 39:2 (2016) v, 201 pp.
Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque
Edited by Beatriz Fernández and Jon Ortiz de Urbina
This book is an endeavor to present and analyze some standard topics in the grammar of Basque from a micro-comparative perspective. From case and agreement to word order and the left periphery, and including an incursion into determiners, the book combines fine-grained theoretical analyses with… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 13] 2016. vi, 302 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon
Edited by Ernestina Carrilho, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and Sandra Pereira
This volume contains a selection of papers of the 28th Going Romance conference, which was organized by the Linguistics centers of Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in December 2014. It assembles the invited contributions by Alain Rouveret, Guido Mensching, Luigi Rizzi, and… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 10] 2016. x, 330 pp.
Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation
Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni
The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234] 2016. vii, 376 pp.
The locus of linguistic variation
Edited by Constantine Lignos, Laurel MacKenzie and Meredith Tamminga
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 16:2 (2016) x, 186 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 14: Papers from the 2013 Piliscsaba Conference
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss, Balázs Surányi and Éva Dékány
This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions,… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 14] 2015. v, 296 pp.
Discourse-oriented Syntax
Edited by Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke
Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of non-at-issue meaning operating at the level of illocutionary force. To approach this domain, many of the contributions of this volume deal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] 2015. v, 253 pp.
Head Movement in Syntax
Rosmin Mathew
Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints. The altered locality domains are detectable from the way certain phrasal elements such as a phrase containing a Wh are forced to undergo movement. The basic idea explored in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 224] 2015. xi, 190 pp.
The In-Situ Approach to Sluicing
Jun Abe
It has been standardly claimed since Merchant (2001) that island violations can be repaired by simply deleting the categories that induce such violations, as witnessed by sluicing, an ellipsis construction that deletes TP with a remnant wh-phrase. This book aims to argue that such “repair by… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 222] 2015. viii, 168 pp.
Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural issues and case studies at the syntax-pragmatics interface
Andreas Trotzke
The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 225] 2015. vi, 147 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. This volume assembles a selection of the papers that were presented at the 27th edition of Going Romance, which was organized by the University of Amsterdam in… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 8] 2015. xi, 280 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2012: Selected papers from the 42nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Cedar City, Utah, 20-22 April 2012
Edited by Jason Smith and Tabea Ihsane
This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 42nd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah, in 2012. The contributions cover a wide range of current topics in the areas of phonetics, phonology, syntax,… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 7] 2015. xii, 304 pp.
Spanish Phraseology: Varieties and variations
Edited by Pedro Mogorrón Huerta and Xavier Blanco
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 38:2 (2015) v, 159 pp.
Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti
Edited by Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini
The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 223] 2015. xxvi, 421 pp.
Studies in Övdalian Morphology and Syntax: New research on a lesser-known Scandinavian language
Edited by Kristine Bentzen, Henrik Rosenkvist and Janne Bondi Johannessen †
Övdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Övdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative… read more
The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish: Along the left periphery
Julio Villa-García
Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2] 2015. xv, 274 pp.
Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
Edited by Petra Sleeman, Freek Van de Velde and Harry Perridon
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 212] 2014. vii, 286 pp.
Advances in the Syntax of DPs: Structure, agreement, and case
Edited by Anna Bondaruk, Gréte Dalmi and Alexander Grosu
The contributions in this volume are devoted to various aspects of the internal and external syntax of DPs in a wide variety of languages belonging to the Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Semitic and Germanic language families. In particular, the papers address questions related to the internal and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 217] 2014. xvii, 320 pp.
Bavarian Syntax: Contributions to the theory of syntax
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Helmut Weiß
Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for uncovering fascinating grammatical properties of dialects. In the 1980s, the assumption that there must be more than one structural position in the left… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 220] 2014. vi, 339 pp.
Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns
Edited by Ileana Paul
The chapters in this volume address current topics in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations, drawing on a range of typologically and geographically diverse languages. Nominalizations represent a long-standing puzzle to linguists: How is a noun, such as destruction, related to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] 2014. xiii, 217 pp.
Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax
Hiroki Narita
Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 218] 2014. xii, 268 pp.
The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
This volume brings together articles by some major figures in various linguistics domains — phonology, morphology and syntax — aiming at explaining the form of linguistic items by exploring the structures that underlie them.The book is divided in 5 parts: vowels, syllables, templates,… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 12] 2014. vii, 377 pp.
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.
Left Sentence Peripheries in Spanish: Diachronic, Variationist and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research. Following the lead of Rizzi (1997), much work on left peripheries has been focused on Italian, whereas other Romance languages have attracted somewhat less attention. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 214] 2014. viii, 423 pp.
Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces
Edited by Peter Kosta, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks
The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 11] 2014. vi, 423 pp.
Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon
Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
Multiple Determiners and the Structure of DPs
Artemis Alexiadou
This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners. In some languages, noun phrases permit or even seem to require a double or multiple realization of definite/indefinite markers in certain modification environments. The book develops tools… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 211] 2014. xi, 134 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012
Edited by Karen Lahousse and Stefania Marzo
This volume contains a selective collection of peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the 26th Going Romance conference, organized at the KU Leuven (Belgium) from 6-8 December 2012. The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 6] 2014. xiii, 247 pp.
Structuring the Argument: Multidisciplinary research on verb argument structure
Edited by Asaf Bachrach, Isabelle Roy and Linnaea Stockall
While the argument structure of verbs has long been a central issue in linguistic research of all varieties and continues to be a vexed area of research across a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, the inter-disciplinary perspective and dialogue remain largely under explored. This… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 10] 2014. vii, 205 pp.
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax and the Lexicon
Leah S. Bauke
This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empirical domains are investigated: nominal root compounds in German and English, nominal gerunds in English and their German counterparts, and small clauses… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 216] 2014. xi, 304 pp.
Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Francisco Gonzálvez-García
The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of emphasis and degree, with an increasing permeability between paradigms arising from cross-fertilizing influences. This book further explores this burgeoning… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 68] 2014. vi, 327 pp.
Three Factors and Beyond: Socio-syntax and language acquisition
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 14:1 (2014) v, 178 pp.
Weak Referentiality
Edited by Ana Aguilar-Guevara, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts
This volume brings together studies in the domain of weak referentiality, the phenomenon that a definite or indefinite noun phrase lacks its usual referential force. Several papers investigate syntactic or semantic properties of indefinite noun phrases, such as modality, number neutrality, narrow… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 219] 2014. xii, 390 pp.
The Lexicon–Syntax Interface: Perspectives from South Asian languages
Edited by Pritha Chandra and Richa Srishti
The present collection offers fresh perspectives on the lexicon-syntax interface, drawing on novel data from South Asian languages like Bangla, Hindi-Urdu, Kashmiri, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipuri, Punjabi, and Telugu. It covers different phenomena like adjectives, nominal phrases, ditransitives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 209] 2014. vii, 275 pp.
Adverbes et compléments adverbiaux / Adverbs and adverbial complements
Edited by Jan Radimský and Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 36:2 (2013) v, 149 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference
Edited by Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack
This volume brings together ten papers presented at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Lund, 2011). The papers cover a broad field of issues in Hungarian relating to phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax and pragmatics, such as vowel harmony, particle verb… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 13] 2013. v, 254 pp.
Challenging Clitics
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and Hans Petter Helland
Challenging Clitics deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike many other books on clitics where clitics are considered from a mere syntactical point of view, this book also discusses the acquisition of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 206] 2013. vii, 315 pp.
The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery
Harold Torrence
This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 198] 2013. xiii, 289 pp.
Cleft Structures
Edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra
The phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie. It has captivated linguists of different disciplines for decades. The fascination arises from the unique syntax of clefts in interaction with their pragmatic and semantic interpretation. Clefts structure sentences according to the information… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 208] 2013. viii, 348 pp.
Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams
Edited by Misha Becker, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman
The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, the DP Domain and Learning Theory. In total, the contents of the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 54] 2013. vi, 358 pp.
Information Structure and Agreement
Edited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor
This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most current developments of Minimalism, Cartography, and Optimality. Some chapters focus on the syntax of information structure in relation with the position… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] 2013. vi, 376 pp.
Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession
Edited by Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Alan K. Scott
The analysis of constructions denoting possession (particularly, but not exclusively, in English) has long presented a challenge to morpho-syntactic theory and has been a topic of debate for some time. The papers presented here afford thought-provoking insights into the morphosyntactic nature of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 199] 2013. xii, 341 pp.
Non-Canonical Passives
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Schäfer
This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 205] 2013. vi, 361 pp
A Reference Grammar of Romanian: Volume 1: The noun phrase
Edited by Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea
Based on recent research in formal linguistics, this volume provides a thorough description of the whole system of Romanian Noun Phrases, understood in an extended sense, that is, in addition to nouns, pronouns and determiners, it examines all the adnominal phrases: genitive-marked DPs, adjectives,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 207] 2013. xxviii, 900 pp.
Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker
This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in linguistic analysis. Several contributions argue that rightward movement is a means of reducing… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011
Edited by Sergio Baauw, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto
In 2011, the annual conference series Going Romance celebrated its 25th edition in Utrecht, the founder city of the enterprise. Since its inception in the eighties of the last century, the local initiative has developed into the major European discussion forum for research focussing on the… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 5] 2013. ix, 269 pp.
The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality
Dalila Ayoun
Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners. So far, the vast majority of empirical studies investigating L2 acquisition have largely focused on past temporality, neglecting the acquisition of the… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 10] 2013. xiii, 252 pp.
Syntactic Variation and Verb Second: A German dialect in Northern Italy
Federica Cognola
This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basing her study on detailed new data collected during extensive fieldwork, and focusing on finite verb movement; on multiple access to the left periphery;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 201] 2013. xii, 325 pp.
The Syntax of Tuki: A cartographic approach
Edmond Biloa
This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective. The following domains are meticulously explored: The Complementizer Domain, the Inflectional Domain and the Verbal Domain. This study reveals that there is a relative phrase… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 203] 2013. xxv, 611 pp.
Three Factors and Beyond: Language development and impairment
Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Special issue of Linguistic Variation 13:2 (2013) xii, 124 pp.
Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation
Laura Domínguez
By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 55] 2013. xx, 267 pp.
The Syntax–Prosody Interface: A cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian
Giuliano Bocci
This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 204] 2013. ix, 213 pp.
Clefts and their Relatives
Matthew Reeve
Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 185] 2012. xiii, 223 pp.
Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art
Edited by Peter Ackema, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 191] 2012. xvi, 418 pp.
The Defective Copy Theory of Movement: Evidence from wh-constructions in Cape Verdean Creole
Nélia Alexandre
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs.… read more[Creole Language Library, 41] 2012. xvi, 249 pp.
The Evaluability Hypothesis: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of polarity item licensing
Johan Brandtler
Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementary distribution of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 183] 2012. xiii, 199 pp.
Key Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameters of Arabic grammar. Part I addresses morpho-syntactic and semantic interfaces in temporality, aspectuality, and actionality, including the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 182] 2012. xx, 358 pp.
Latin Embedded Clauses: The left periphery
Lieven Danckaert
This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 184] 2012. xviii, 368 pp.
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons
Edited by Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel Nye
Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 190] 2012. vi, 433 pp.
Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: Syntax and semantics
Edited by Urtzi Etxeberria, Ricardo Etxepare and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This collective volume on nominal expressions in Basque, a language isolate with no known relatives, comprises original papers on the syntactic structure and the interpretation of both Noun Phrases and nominalization constructions – a traditionally neglected aspect of Basque linguistics. The minute… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 187] 2012. vii, 466 pp.
Optimizing Adverb Positions
Eva Engels
Adverb positions vary within a single language as well as across diverse languages. Based on the study of adverbs in English, French and German, this monograph shows that the distribution of adverbs is influenced by various factors at distinct levels of linguistic representation – comprising… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 181] 2012. xiv, 347 pp.
The Passive in Japanese: A cartographic minimalist approach
Tomoko Ishizuka
This book describes and analyzes the passive voice system in Japanese within the framework of generative grammar. By unifying different types of passives conventionally distinguished within the literature, the book advances a simple minimalist account where various passive characteristics emerge… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 192] 2012. xv, 249 pp.
SMS Communication: A linguistic approach
Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 35:2 (2012) viii, 261 pp.
Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Multiple Interrogatives: Who wants what?
Lydia Grebenyova
Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 195] 2012. xviii, 191 pp.
Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
The theoretical proposals brought forward in this book as well as the results from the reported experimental studies present genuine contributions to the biolinguistic program. The papers contribute to our understanding of the properties of the computations and the representations derived by the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 194] 2012. vi, 367 pp
Adverbials and the Phase Model
Petr Biskup
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in referential and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 177] 2011. ix, 235 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference
Edited by Tibor Laczkó and Catherine O. Ringen
This volume contains eight papers, all presented at the 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (University of Debrecen, 2009), addressing a great variety of topics in the syntax, morphology, phonology, and semantics of Hungarian, and also offering discussion of related phenomena… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 12] 2011. x, 242 pp.
Bidirectional Optimality Theory
Edited by Anton Benz and Jason Mattausch
Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics‑semantics interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game theoretic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 180] 2011. v, 279 pp.
Causatives in Minimalism
Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 179] 2011. xx, 294 pp.
Complex Predicates: The syntax-morphology interface
Leila Lomashvili
Complex predicates present different levels of complexity at the syntactic and morphological levels crosslinguistically. The focus of this book is a subset of these constructions (causative and applicative) in three polysynthetic languages of the South Caucasian language family, in which the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 174] 2011. xi, 190 pp.
Constraints on Displacement: A phase-based approach
Gereon Müller
This monograph sets out to derive the effects of standard constraints on displacement like the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and the Condition on Extraction Domain (CED) from more basic principles in a minimalist approach. Assuming that movement via phase edges is possible only in the presence of… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 7] 2011. x, 339 pp.
The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change
Edited by Petra Sleeman and Harry Perridon
One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 171] 2011. vii, 283 pp.
Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu: The syntax of discourse-driven movement
Emily Manetta
This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advances a novel theory of the periphery, or the clausal positions that mediate A-bar movement. In particular, a detailed study of wh-expletives and… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 4] 2011. ix, 160 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XXII–XXIII: College Park, Maryland, 2008 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2009
Edited by Ellen Broselow and Hamid Ouali
The present volume presents cutting-edge research on Arabic linguistics. It features a set of papers which continue a long tradition of seeking new explanations for familiar or previously undiscovered structural patterns. While the papers illustrate a range of approaches, from formalist to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 317] 2011. xxvi, 295 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2009: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Nice 2009
Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer
The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-third Going Romance conference was a… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 3] 2011. viii, 393 pp.
Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics: Unifying movement and adjunction
Tim Hunter
This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 170] 2011. xi, 185 pp.
The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole
Diana Guillemin
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.
The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Parametric variation and surface diversities
Hakyung Jung
This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 172] 2011. xiii, 269 pp.
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
Christopher D. Sapp
This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 173] 2011. ix, 225 pp.
Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics
Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Ora Matushansky
Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] 2010. vii, 335 pp.
Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga
The topic of this collection is argument structure. The fourteen chapters in this book are divided into four parts: Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Event Structure; A Cartographic View on Argument Structure; Syntactic Heads Involved in Argument Structure; and Argument Structure in Language… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 158] 2010. vi, 348 pp.
Chomskyan (R)evolutions
Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee
It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the sources, the nature and the extent of the theoretical changes Chomsky introduced in… read more
Clitics in Greek: A minimalist account of proclisis and enclisis
Marios Mavrogiorgos
This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky’s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 160] 2010. x, 294 pp.
Continuity and Change in Grammar
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis
One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 159] 2010. viii, 359 pp.
Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Virginia Hill
This collection deals with central issues in the syntax of clauses and their interfaces with the conceptual-intentional system. The book targets the syntactic properties that have an impact on the interpretation of discourse and temporal dependencies, functional fields including CP, pragmatic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 156] 2010. vii, 265 pp.
Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be ‘crash-proof’. Such a version of the Minimalist… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 3] 2010. xii, 301 pp.
Extraction Asymmetries: Experimental evidence from German
Tanja Kiziak
This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 163] 2010. xvi, 273 pp.
Focus Particles in German: Syntax, prosody, and information structure
Stefan Sudhoff
This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 151] 2010. xiii, 335 pp.
French Syntax in Contrast
Edited by Karen Lahousse, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 33:2 (2010) vi, 170 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2010
General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 10] 2010. viii, 302 pp.
Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese
Yosuke Sato
This monograph explores the interface between syntax and its related components through in-depth investigation of a sizable portion of the grammar of Indonesian and Javanese. It can be read on two levels. Theoretically, it proposes the minimalist interface thesis that syntax-external linguistic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 155] 2010. xiii, 159 pp.
The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus: Minimalist inquiries in the Quechua periphery
Liliana Sánchez
This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 169] 2010. xiii, 242 pp.
Movement Theory of Control
Edited by Norbert Hornstein and Maria Polinsky
Natural languages offer many examples of “displacement,” i.e. constructions in which a non-local expression is critical for some grammatical end. Two central examples include phenomena such as raising and passive on the one hand, and control on the other. Though each phenomenon is an example of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 154] 2010. vii, 330 pp.
Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions
Edited by John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.The general aim of the Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals is investigation of structural characteristics common to the Germanic languages, such as… read more[The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals, 2] 2010. vii, 225 pp.
Phase Theory
Ángel J. Gallego
This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 152] 2010. xii, 365 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2008: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Groningen 2008
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Bart Hollebrandse
This volume assembles a significant number of selected papers that were presented at the 22nd edition of Going Romance, held at the University of Groningen in December 2008. Though it contains a variety of topics, 'tense, mood and aspect' is represented most extensively. This volume contains a rich… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2] 2010. x, 251 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008
Edited by Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay
The sixteen papers here united have been selected from the 38th Linguistic Symposium of the Romance Languages held in Champaign-Urbana in 2008. The papers, whose authors include both well-known researchers and younger scholars, cover a broad and truly interdisciplinary range of topics in phonology,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 313] 2010. vii, 266 pp.
Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009
Edited by Sonia Colina, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho
This volume contains a selection of twenty-four peer-reviewed papers from the 39th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at the University of Arizona in 2009. Contributions cover a wide variety of topics in the areas of phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 315] 2010. xiv, 426 pp.
Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan
Ingo Feldhausen
This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan. The empirical section examines intonational phrasing across sentence forms, including SVO structures with either nominal or sentential objects and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 168] 2010. xiii, 285 pp.
Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Mark de Vries
"Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences" (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety of syntactic phenomena are general and unified structural patterns of unexpected beauty and simplicity gave rise to major advancements in the study of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 164] 2010. xxiii, 395 pp.
Studies in West Frisian Grammar
Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan
In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 161] 2010. x, 384 pp.
The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis
Lobke Aelbrecht
This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 149] 2010. xii, 230 pp.
Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Susann Fischer
This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 157] 2010. ix, 200 pp.
The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy
Marit Westergaard
Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 145] 2009. xii, 245 pp.
Actes du «27e colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire» (L'Aquila, 10-13 septembre 2008). Première partie
Sous la direction de Michele De Gioia
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 32:2 (2009) vi, 160 pp.
Advances in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Jorge Hankamer, Thomas McFadden, Justin Nuger and Florian Schäfer
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 21st and 22nd Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Stuttgart. The contributions provide insightful discussions of several topics of current interest for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 141] 2009. xv, 395 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conference
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Robert M. Vago
This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 11] 2009. ix, 280 pp.
Correlatives Cross-Linguistically
Edited by Anikó Lipták
This volume brings together recent work in generative syntax on correlative relative constructions. Greatly expanding on the Hindi-oriented scope of previous studies, it describes and analyzes correlative constructions in a range of languages, such as Basque, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Sanskrit,… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 1] 2009. vii, 375 pp.
Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov
In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] 2009. vii, 406 pp.
Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries
Dorian Roehrs
Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 140] 2009. xii, 196 pp.
The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations
Glyn Hicks
The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions. Hicks adduces a broad variety of evidence against the binding conditions applying at LF and builds upon the insights of recent proposals by… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 139] 2009. xii, 309 pp.
Determiners: Universals and variation
Edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko
This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages. It seeks to answer the core question of modern linguistic theory: Which properties of languages are universal and which are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 147] 2009. vii, 247 pp.
Grammar as Processor: A Distributed Morphology account of spontaneous speech errors
Roland Pfau
Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 137] 2009. xiii, 372 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009
General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 9] 2009. 257 pp.
Minimalist Essays on Brazilian Portuguese Syntax
Edited by Jairo Nunes
This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 142] 2009. vi, 243 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Amsterdam 2007
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, Elisabeth van der Linden, Josep Quer and Petra Sleeman
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.This volume assembles a significant number of… read more[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 1] 2009. xii, 288 pp.
Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins
The studies in this collection address a topic that has recently become the focus of considerable interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research: the acquisition of articles. Languages appear to vary in whether they have articles (English, German, Norwegian do, but Chinese, Japanese,… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 49] 2009. ix, 272 pp.
The Structure of Stative Verbs
Antonia Rothmayr
This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization. The study shows that there is no single class of stative verbs. Rather, several distinct groups of verbs are found: Verbs that undergo a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 143] 2009. xv, 216 pp.
Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism
Edited by Michael T. Putnam
This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik’s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 144] 2009. x, 269 pp.
25th Lexis and Grammar Conference
Edited by Ignazio Mauro Mirto
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 31:2 (2008) 208 pp.
Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages
Edited by Dalina Kallulli and Liliane Tasmowski
This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 130] 2008. ix, 442 pp.
Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein
This volume presents a collection of specially commissioned papers devoted to analyzing the linguistics of Modern Hebrew from a number of perspectives. Various aspects of Modern Hebrew grammar are discussed including the structure of the lexicon, grammatical features and inflectional morphology, as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 134] 2008. vii, 393 pp.
Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective
Edited by Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva
This volume presents recent generative research on the nature of grammars of child second language (L2) acquirers -- a learner population whose exposure to an L2 occurs between the ages of 4 to 8. The main goal is to define child L2 acquisition in relation to other types of acquisition such as… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] 2008. vi, 363 pp.
The Emergence of Order in Syntax
Jordi Fortuny
The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation (‘Merge’) and of derivational records (‘nests’), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 119] 2008. viii, 211 pp.
Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: Volume 1: An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata, Volume 2: Applications in Linguistic Theory, Volume 3: Psycholinguistic Applications
Willem J.M. Levelt
Almost four decades have passed since Formal Grammars first appeared in 1974. At that time it was still possible to rather comprehensively review for (psycho)linguists the relevant literature on the theory of formal languages and automata, on their applications in linguistic theory and in the… read more[Not in series, 144] 2008. viii, 585 pp.
The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax–phonology interface
Jason Kandybowicz
Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 136] 2008. xiii, 168 pp.
Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal papers
Edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp.
The Layered DP: Form and meaning of French indefinites
Tabea Ihsane
This book examines argumental un-NPs and du/des-NPs in French: nominals with the indefinite article and with the so-called ‘partitive article’ respectively. The main aim is to account for the different interpretations of these indefinites and to determine how interpretation and structure are… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 124] 2008. ix, 260 pp.
The Left Periphery: The interaction of syntax, pragmatics and prosody in Czech
Anne Sturgeon
This study of the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and prosody in left peripheral positions focuses on two left dislocation constructions in Czech, Hanging Topic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation. The structure of the left periphery is delineated through a thorough description and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 129] 2008. xi, 143 pp.
Les structures comparatives du français: Des bases de données aux corpus
Sous la direction de Catherine Fuchs
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 31:1 (2008) 150 pp.
The Limits of Syntactic Variation
Edited by Theresa Biberauer
Against the background of the past half century’s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what we have learned and may still be able to learn about the nature and extent of syntactic variation. More specifically, it offers a… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 132] 2008. vii, 521 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2008
General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 8] 2008. 284 pp.
Modality, Aspect and Negation in Persian
Azita H. Taleghani
This monograph presents a morpho-syntactic investigation on modality, aspect, and negation by concentrating on Persian, and is designed to contribute to theoretical linguistics and the study of Iranian languages. The analysis is based on the Minimalist program. This research challenges the idea… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 128] 2008. ix, 183 pp.
Morphology at the Interfaces: Reduplication and Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan
Jason D. Haugen
This monograph addresses morphology and its interfaces with phonology and syntax by examining comparative data from the Uto-Aztecan language family, and analyses involving reduplication as well as noun incorporation and related derivational morphology are provided within the framework of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 117] 2008. xv, 257 pp.
The Perfect Time Span: On the present perfect in German, Swedish and English
Björn Rothstein
This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 125] 2008. xi, 171 pp.
The Syntactic Nature of Inner Aspect: A minimalist perspective
Jonathan E. MacDonald
This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 133] 2008. xv, 241 pp.
Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P
Edited by Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlačil, Berit Gehrke and Rick Nouwen
The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 120] 2008. vi, 416 pp.
The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives: External arguments in change-of-state contexts
Florian Schäfer
This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 126] 2008. xi, 324 pp.
The Syntax of Jamaican Creole: A cartographic perspective
Stephanie Durrleman
This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 127] 2008. xii, 190 pp.
Unique Focus: Languages without multiple wh-questions
Marina Stoyanova
This monograph focuses on an interesting typological property shared by four languages: the ungrammaticality of multiple wh-questions in Irish, Berber, Italian and Somali. It contains a broad discussion of data related to the grammar of wh-questions, a comparative analysis of wh-constructions in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 123] 2008. xi, 184 pp.
Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure: Path, place and possession in Norwegian
Mai Ellin Tungseth
This book investigates different types of verb-PP combinations and examines the types of meanings which arise when the argument structure of the PP fuses with the verbal argument structure. Focussing mainly on data from Norwegian, the book investigates three different empirical domains of PP-VP… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 121] 2008. ix, 187 pp.
The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure
Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.
Adverb Licensing and Clause Structure in English
Dagmar Haumann
This monograph provides an in-depth investigation of the structural integration and the licensing of adverbs in relation to clause structure, with special emphasis on the structural implementation of the relation between the position and interpretation of adverbs. The book substantiates the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 105] 2007. ix, 435 pp.
Applicatives: Structure and interpretation from a minimalist perspective
Youngmi Jeong
Applicatives is concerned with the syntax of constructions that contain arguments that transcend the traditional subject-object characterization, and how the syntax of such constructions yields the interpretive effects that previous research has identified. At the empirical level this volume… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 104] 2007. vii, 144 pp.
Argument Structure
Edited by Eric J. Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Giorgos Spathas
Recent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection, giving prominence to the discussion on the role of lexical entries. Particularly, the more traditional lexicalist view that encodes argument structure information on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 108] 2007. xviii, 243 pp.
Beyond Coherence: The syntax of opacity in German
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
The overarching theme of this volume is one of the central concerns of syntactic theory: How local is syntax, and what are the measures of syntactic locality? It is argued here that movement and anaphoric relations are governed by a unified concept of locality: the phase. On an empirical level,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 114] 2007. viii, 206 pp.
The Copy Theory of Movement
Edited by Norbert Corver and Jairo Nunes
This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement. According to this theory, a trace is a copy of the moved element that is deleted in the phonological component but is available for interpretation at L(ogical) F(orm). Thus far, the bulk of the research… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 107] 2007. vi, 388 pp.
Coreference, Modality, and Focus: Studies on the syntax–semantics interface
Edited by Luis Eguren and Olga Fernández-Soriano
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework, mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 111] 2007. xii, 239 pp.
Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar: Studies in honour of Frits Beukema
Edited by Wim van der Wurff
This volume contains ten articles exploring a wide range of issues in the analysis of the imperative clause from a generative perspective. The language data investigated in detail in the articles come from Dutch, English, German, (old) Scandinavian, Spanish, and South Slavic; there is further… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 103] 2007. viii, 352 pp.
Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan
Edited by Josef Bayer, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu
The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 102] 2007. x, 282 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2007
General Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 7] 2007. 268 pp.
Locality and Information Structure: A cartographic approach to Japanese
Yoshio Endo
This monograph presents a systematic exploration of Japanese syntax within the cartographic approach, paying special attention to the locality effects induced by discourse-based features such as topic and focus. Although the main focus is on Japanese syntax, implications of the analyses developed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 116] 2007. x, 235 pp.
Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use
Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:1 (2007) vi; 163 pp.
Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form: Scrambling in the Germanic languages
Gema Chocano
‘Scrambling’, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ‘Object Shift’. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 109] 2007. x, 333 pp.
Parentheticals
Edited by Nicole Dehé and Yordanka Kavalova
This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it. The book provides an up-to-date introduction to… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 106] 2007. xii, 314 pp.
Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation. In honor of Joseph E. Emonds
Edited by Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins
The present collection includes papers that address a wide range of syntactic phenomena. In some, the authors discuss such major syntactic properties as clausal architecture, syntactic labels and derivation, and the nature of features and their role with respect to movement, agreement, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 101] 2007. vi, 424 pp.
Scrambling and the Survive Principle
Michael T. Putnam
Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings. Ross, who coined the term Scrambling to refer to the relatively ‘free’ word orders found in Germanic languages (among others) notes that “… the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 115] 2007. x, 216 pp.
Studies on Old High German Syntax: Left sentence periphery, verb placement and verb-second
Katrin Axel-Tober
This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre-verb-second grammar by answering the following questions: To what extent did generalized verb movement exist in Old… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 112] 2007. xii, 364 pp.
The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages
Edited by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar
This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 41] 2006. viii, 422 pp.
Agreement Systems
Edited by Cedric Boeckx
Agreement plays a central role in modern generative grammar. The present collection brings together contributions from experts on various aspects of agreement systems in the world’s languages in an attempt to formulate formal and substantive universals in this domain. All the papers contained here… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 92] 2006. ix, 346 pp.
Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German
Edited by Jutta M. Hartmann and László Molnárfi
This selection of papers presented at the 20th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop brings together contributions that address issues in syntactic predication and studies in the nominal system, as well as papers on data from the history of English and German. Showing a strong comparative… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 97] 2006. vi, 332 pp.
Demoting the Agent: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt and Torgrim Solstad
Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 96] 2006. x, 333 pp.
Deriving Coordinate Symmetries: A phase-based approach integrating Select, Merge, Copy and Match
John R. te Velde
This monograph proposes a minimalist, phase-based approach to the derivation of coordinate structures, utilizing the operations Copy and Match to account for both the symmetries and asymmetries of coordination. Data are drawn primarily from English, German and Dutch. The basic assumptions are that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 89] 2006. x, 385 pp.
Individuals in Time: Tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction
María J. Arche
This monograph investigates the temporal properties of those predicates referring to individuals – the so-called individual-level (IL) predicates – in contrast to those known as stage-level (SL) predicates. Many of the traditional tenets attributed to the IL/SL dichotomy are not solidly founded,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 94] 2006. xiv, 281 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006
Edited by Pierre Pica
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 6] 2006. iv, 274 pp.
Minimalist Essays
Edited by Cedric Boeckx
The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 91] 2006. xvi, 399 pp.
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and infinitives
Acrisio Pires
This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 98] 2006. xiv, 188 pp.
Non-definiteness and Plurality
Edited by Svetlana Vogeleer and Liliane Tasmowski
This collection of studies by leading scholars in the field focuses on the semantics of non-definite (bare and indefinite) plural NPs. The contributions in the first part concentrate on bare plurals and their cross-linguistic counterparts. They discuss applicability of the notion of ‘semantic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 95] 2006. vi, 358 pp.
Ordre des mots et topologie de la phrase française
Sous la direction de Kim Gerdes et Claude Muller
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 29:1 (2006) 199 pp.
Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz
Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten
The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] 2006. viii, 222 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVI: , Cambridge, March 2002
Edited by Sami Boudelaa
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 266] 2006. xii, 181 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Leiden, 9–11 December 2004
Edited by Jenny Doetjes and Paz González
This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth ‘Going Romance’ symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range of topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, and acquisition, in a variety of Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 278] 2006. viii, 320 pp.
Studies on Agreement
Edited by João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva
The status of agreement is a core issue in current morphological and syntactic theory. The collection of papers in this volume focuses on important issues, such as the nature of the relation between syntax and morphology in determining agreement relations; whether and which syntactic configurations… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 86] 2006. vi, 285 pp.
The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Ljiljana Progovac, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles-Suárez and Ellen Barton
This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 93] 2006. x, 372 pp
The Acquisition of Swahili
Kamil Deen
This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 40] 2005. xiv, 241 pp.
Advances in Greek Generative Syntax: In honor of Dimitra Theophanopoulou-Kontou
Edited by Melita Stavrou and Arhonto Terzi
This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax. The articles combine a sound empirical coverage within current developments of generative theory and cover a wide spectrum of areas. The syntax of sentential structure is dealt with by two articles, one… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 76] 2005. viii, 366 pp.
Case, Referentiality and Phrase Structure
Balkız Öztürk
This book proposes that the two “independent” conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 77] 2005. viii, 268 pp.
Clausal Architecture and Subject Positions: Impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages
Sabine Mohr
This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have a universal base where the internal argument is always merged in SpecVP. Word order differences and their correlates result from an… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 88] 2005. viii, 207 pp.
Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives
Edited by Lorie Heggie and Francisco Ordóñez
In this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., HPSG , Optimality Theory, Minimalism).… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 74] 2005. viii, 390 pp.
Copular Clauses: Specification, predication and equation
Line Mikkelsen
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 85] 2005. viii, 210 pp.
The Distribution of Pronoun Case Forms in English
Heidi Quinn
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case. The author examines case trends in a wide range of syntactic constructions and concludes that case variation is confined to strong pronoun contexts. Data from a survey of 90 speakers provide new insights into the distributional… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 82] 2005. xii, 409 pp.
The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Christina Tortora
This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 78] 2005. vii, 292 pp.
Infinitival Syntax: Infinitivus Pro Participio as a repair strategy
Tanja Schmid
This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic ‘Infinitivus Pro Participio’ (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. The book… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 79] 2005. xiv, 251 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2005
Edited by Pierre Pica, Johan Rooryck and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 5] 2005. iv, 308 pp.
Machine Translation, Controlled Languages and Specialised Languages
Edited by Sylviane Cardey, Peter Greenfield and Séverine Vienney
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 28:1 (2005) 173 pp.
Nominal Phrases from a Scandinavian Perspective
Marit Julien
This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 87] 2005. xv, 348 pp.
The Order of Prepositional Phrases in the Structure of the Clause
Walter Schweikert
For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research. This has changed with a novel path of inquiry into the inner structure of complex prepositional expressions. In a unique approach to the examination of the outer syntax of prepositions the author uses… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 83] 2005. xii, 337 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XVII–XVIII: Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004
Edited by Mohammad T. Alhawary and Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of issues in current linguistic research, particularly in the areas of phonology, morphology/lexicon,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 267] 2005. xvi, 315 pp.
Quantifier Scope in German
Jürgen Pafel
This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 84] 2005. xvi, 312 pp.
The Rise of Agreement: A formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection
Eric Fuß
This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 81] 2005. xii, 336 pp.
The Role of Agreement in Non-Finite Predication
Gréte Dalmi
This comparative syntactic study claims that agreement is the most central functional category responsible for licensing predication in finite, non-finite and small clauses alike. Intriguing syntactic phenomena like Icelandic infinitival predicates taking non-nominative (quirky) subjects;… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 90] 2005. xvi, 222 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November
Edited by Twan Geerts, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs
The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. Starting with the thirteenth conference held in 1999, volumes with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 270] 2005. viii, 369 pp.
Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social
Edited by Leonie Cornips and Karen P. Corrigan
The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the ‘internal-external’ (‘formal-functional’) debate in linguistic theory. The primary aim of this volume is to initiate cooperation between internationally renowned generative and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 265] 2005. vi, 312 pp.
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004
Edited by Randall Gess and Edward J. Rubin
The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 272] 2005. viii, 367 pp.
UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.
Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages
Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley
This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] 2005. xiv, 431 pp.
Verbes supports: Nouvel état des lieux
Sous la direction de Gaston Gross et Sophie de Pontonx
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 27:2 (2005) 199 pp.
The Syntax–Discourse Interface: Representing and interpreting dependency
Petra B. Schumacher
This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 80] 2005. xii, 259 pp.
The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories
Edited by Philippe Prévost and Johanne Paradis
This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories)… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 32] 2004. viii, 384 pp.
The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar
Edited by Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson
This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 33] 2004. vi, 313 pp.
Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin, Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh
Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The articles selected for this volume present recent research on this topic. Among the issues addressed are the occurrence of adverbials in various domains of the sentence… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 70] 2004. ix, 343 pp.
Balkan Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Olga Mišeska Tomić
The book deals with some syntactic and semantic aspects of the shared Balkan Sprachbund properties. In a comprehensive introductory chapter, Tomić offers an overview of the Balkan Sprachbund properties. Sobolev, displaying the areal distribution of 65 properties, argues for dialect cartography.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 67] 2004. xvi, 496 pp.
The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse
Edited by Alice G.B. ter Meulen and Werner Abraham
In the modular design of generative theory the syntax–semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax–pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 255] 2004. vi, 230 pp.
Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar
Edited by Eric Fuß and Carola Trips
This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp.
Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach
Carsten Breul
The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 68] 2004. x, 430 pp.
Grammaticalization as Economy
Elly van Gelderen
This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71] 2004. xv, 318 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004
Edited by Pierre Pica
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 4] 2004. iv, 302 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2002: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Groningen, 28–30 November 2002
Edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollebrandse, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe and Petra Sleeman
The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages. Selected papers are published in the Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory volumes. This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 256] 2004. viii, 273 pp.
Verb Clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk
Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 69] 2004. vi, 514 pp.
(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism
Edited by Natascha Müller
The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 1] 2003. xiv, 374 pp.
The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek
Theodoros Marinis
This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 31] 2003. xiv, 261 pp.
Asymmetry in Grammar: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Volume I, Syntax and Semantics of Asymmetry in Grammar brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57-58] 2003. vi, 405 pp. & vi, 309 pp.
Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 58] 2003. vi, 309 pp.
Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics
Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Asymmetry in Grammar: Syntax and Semantics brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive pronouns.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57] 2003. vi, 405 pp.
From NP to DP: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst
Volume 1: This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 55-56] 2003. vi, 362 pp. & x, 295 pp.
From NP to DP: Volume 1: The syntax and semantics of noun phrases
Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst
This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. The papers address issues in the syntax and semantics of the noun phrase, in particular the so-called DP-hypothesis which… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 55] 2003. vi, 359 pp.
From NP to DP: Volume 2: The expression of possession in noun phrases
Edited by Martine Coene and Yves D’hulst
This is the second of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the special workshop of the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. Reflecting the stage of current research with respect to the expression of possession in the noun… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 56] 2003. ix, 291 pp.
Grammaires et Lexiques Comparés: Actes du Colloque
Edited by Mirella Conenna and Éric Laporte
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 26:1 (2003) vi, 174 pp.
The Interfaces: Deriving and interpreting omitted structures
Edited by Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler
The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 61] 2003. vi, 403 pp.
Islands and Chains: Resumption as stranding
Cedric Boeckx
The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 63] 2003. xii, 224 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003
Edited by Pierre Pica
Linguistic Variation Yearbook is devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. It aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It seeks in particular to investigate to what extent… read more[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 3] 2003. 249 pp.
Multiple Wh-Fronting
Edited by Cedric Boeckx and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the “classic”… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 64] 2003. ix, 289 pp.
Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of movement dependencies
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Standard conceptions of Locality aim to establish that a dependency between two positions may not span too long a distance. This book explores the opposite conception, Anti-Locality: Don’t move too close. The model of clause structure, syntactic computation, and locality concerns Kleanthes Grohmann… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 66] 2003. xv, 369 pp.
Quechua-Spanish Bilingualism: Interference and convergence in functional categories
Liliana Sánchez
This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind. Examining novel oral production data from older bilingual children representing two Quechua varieties, this research concludes that interference in the feature specification of functional categories leads to… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 35] 2003. x, 189 pp.
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000
Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme
This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 241] 2003. vii, 547 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001
Edited by Josep Quer, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd-Daatzelaar
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.Romance Languages and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 245] 2003. viii, 355 pp.
Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition. Selected papers from the 32nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Toronto, April 2002
Edited by Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Yves Roberge
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 32nd Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages, dealing with linguistic theory as applied to the Romance languages, and on empirical studies on the acquisition of Romance, with studies on Romanian, French,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 244] 2003. viii, 388 pp.
A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001
Edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron
Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern. Research in Romance… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 238] 2003. xv, 384 pp.
Small Phrase Layers: A study of Finnish Manner Adverbials
Satu Manninen
This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 65] 2003. xii, 275 pp.
Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon
Birgit Gerlach
As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 51] 2002. xii, 282 pp.
Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999
Edited by Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora and Diana Cresti
This book presents an enlightening collection of papers contributing to theoretical discussions across many topics within the study of Romance Languages and Linguistics. The work originates from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held in 1999 at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] 2002. viii, 412 pp.
Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers and Hans-Martin Gärtner
This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages. The papers advance or build on models of movement which capitalize either on… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 48] 2002. vi, 345 pp.
From OV to VO in Early Middle English
Carola Trips
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 60] 2002. xiv, 359 pp.
The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp.
An Introduction to the Grammar of English: Syntactic arguments and socio-historical background
Elly van Gelderen
This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts.The focus is on… read more[Not in series, 111] 2002. xxiv, 200 pp.
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Edited by Werner Abraham and Jan-Wouter Zwart
This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] 2002. xviii, 336 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2002
Edited by Pierre Pica
[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 308 pp.
Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German
Markus Steinbach
This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 50] 2002. xii, 337 pp.
Modality and its Interaction with the Verbal System
Edited by Sjef Barbiers, Frits Beukema and Wim van der Wurff
This book provides a broad overview of the issues relevant for the study of syntax of modals and their interaction with the verbal system. A large number of novel observations are offered from a variety of languages, including Dutch, (Modern and Middle) English, German, Lele, Macedonian, Middle… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 47] 2002. x, 290 pp.
Particle Verbs in English: Syntax, information structure and intonation
Nicole Dehé
This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English. The main emphasis is on the alternation between the two word orders possible in English (continuous: hand in the manuscript vs. discontinuous: hand the manuscript in). The central aim is to show that the choice… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 59] 2002. xii, 302 pp.
Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns: ‘Pronominality’ and licensing in syntax
Phoevos Panagiotidis
Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 46] 2002. x, 214 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December
Edited by Claire Beyssade, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 2000 'Going Romance' conference, held in Utrecht. The papers discuss current topics in formal syntax in Romance languages. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 232] 2002. viii, 354 pp.
Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000
Edited by Caroline R. Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps
This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, focussing on the areas of phonology and language variation. The papers address issues in phonology such as the emergence of the unmarked, representational… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 217] 2002. xi, 238 pp.
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Edited by Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 53] 2002. xiv, 404 pp.
The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties
Marlyse Baptista
This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Theoretical Approaches to Universals
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou
The present volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers in this volume are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 49] 2002. viii, 319 pp.
Détermination et Formalisation
Sous la direction de Xavier Blanco, Pierre-André Buvet et Zoé Gavriilidou
The contributions brought together in this volume represent the state-of-the-art in the study of determiners, which finds itself in the intersection of such fields as theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and logic. The articles provide original viewpoints on determination, and bring… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 23] 2001. xii, 344 pp.
Empty Categories in Sentence Processing
Sam Featherston
This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax — processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions. While the work done is largely experimental, the results are analyzed both for their relevance to sentence processing and for their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 43] 2001. xvi, 277 pp.
Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras
Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén and Karen Zagona
This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages. It represents the latest work on the structure of Romance languages, with relevant comparisons to other… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp.
Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and ergativity
Artemis Alexiadou
This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.g. Greek, Germanic, Romance, Hebrew, Slavic. Adopting and extending the view that category formation does not involve any lexical operation (recently put forth within the framework of Distributed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 42] 2001. x, 231 pp.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001
Edited by Pierre Pica
[Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 1] 2001. xiv, 270 pp.
The Minimalist Parameter: Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997
Edited by Galina M. Alexandrova and Olga Arnaudova
In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates, and numerous proposals that offer alternatives to it. A good illustration of the variety… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 192] 2001. x, 360 pp.
Particle Verbs and Local Domains
Jochen Zeller
This book offers a new account of particle verbs in German and Dutch by looking at the conditions under which a non-morphological structure may exhibit “word-like” properties. It shows that although particles are represented as phrasal complements of their verbs, they lack the functional structure… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 41] 2001. xii, 323 pp.
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items
Edited by Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Víctor Sánchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 40] 2001. xii, 368 pp.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1999: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 1999, Leiden, 9–11 December 1999
Edited by Yves D’hulst, Johan Rooryck and Jan Schroten
This volume brings together a selection of articles presented at 'Going Romance' 1999. The articles focus on current syntactic and semantic issues in various Romance languages, including Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and a number of Northern Italian dialects. A large number of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 221] 2001. viii, 406 pp.
The Verb in Turkish
Edited by Eser Erguvanlı Taylan
This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 44] 2001. xvii, 267 pp.
The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and pragmatics
Jeannette Schaeffer
This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of the Modularity… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 22] 2000. xii, 187 pp.
Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio’s Generalization
Edited by Eric J. Reuland
The ideas presented by the contributions in this volume originated in a workshop on Burzio’s generalization. Burzio’s Generalization (BG) states that a verb which does not assign an external theta-role to its subject does not assign structural accusative Case to an object and conversely. It… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 34] 2000. xii, 255 pp.
Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
Edited by Birgit Gerlach and Janet Grijzenhout
This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36] 2000. xii, 441 pp.
The Derivation of VO and OV
Edited by Peter Svenonius
The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones, in light of recent work by Richard Kayne and others. The various papers in the volume take different positions with respect to whether one type of structure is derived… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 31] 2000. vi, 370 pp.
Events and Predication: A new approach to syntactic processing in English and Spanish
Montserrat Sanz
Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the exploration of the syntax/semantics interface by presenting a thorough comparison of event and predicate types in English and Spanish. The… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 207] 2000. xiv, 219 pp.
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, Self, and Interpretability
Elly van Gelderen
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 39] 2000. xiv, 277 pp.
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar
David Lebeaux
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language… read more[Not in series, 97] 2000. xxx, 277 pp.
Lexical Specification and Insertion
Edited by Peter Coopmans, Martin B.H. Everaert and Jane Grimshaw
The papers in this volume address the general question what type of lexical specifications we need in a generative grammar and by what principles this information is projected onto syntactic configurations, or to put it differently, how lexical insertion is executed. Many of the contributions focus… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 197] 2000. xviii, 467 pp.
The Light Verb Construction in Japanese: The role of the verbal noun
Tadao Miyamoto
This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb “suru” do and an accusative (“o”) marked verbal noun (VN). There have been unresolved debates on the role of “suru”: whether “suru” in “VN-o suru” functions as a light or heavy verb. The previous… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 29] 2000. xiv, 232 pp.
Morphological Analysis in Comparison
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, Oskar E. Pfeiffer, Markus A. Pöchtrager and John R. Rennison
This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna. It presents advances in morphological theorizing, such as the foundations of sign-based morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the boundaries between compounding and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 201] 2000. x, 261 pp.
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, 1996
Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 202] 2000. vi, 386 pp.
Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface conditions on prosodic deletion
Katharina Hartmann
This book investigates two elliptical coordinations in German, Right Node Raising and Gapping. Ellipsis in both constructions is claimed to be the result of a phonological process which is conditioned by prosodic and focus semantic constraints. It is convincingly argued that Right Node Raising… read more[Not in series, 106] 2000. xiv, 190 pp.
Syntactic Aspects of Topic and Comment
André Meinunger
The book focuses on the syntactic behavior of argument noun phrases depending on their discourse status. The main language of consideration is German, but it is shown that the observations can be carried over to other languages. The claim is that discourse-new arguments remain inside the VP where… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 38] 2000. xii, 245 pp.
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder
This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne’s (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 32] 2000. vi, 395 pp.
Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking
Andrew Simpson
Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking argues that cross-linguistic variation in wh-constructions reduces to the availability of different lexical instantiations of a +wh C0 both across languages and within a single language, and the way in which such lexical elements are syntactically… read more[Not in series, 98] 2000. xii, 244 pp.
Wh-Scope Marking
Edited by Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of wh-scope marking. Wh-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 37] 2000. vi, 483 pp.
Word Order Change in Icelandic: From OV to VO
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 35] 2000. xiv, 385 pp.
Word Order in Hungarian: The syntax of Ā-positions
Genoveva Puskás
Hungarian word-order is characterized by large scale preposing of constituents to sentence-initial positions. This study examines systematically the elements which occur in the left periphery. Focal, wh- and negative operators which have scope over the whole sentence must appear in the left… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 33] 2000. xvi, 396 pp.
Word Order, Agreement and Pronominalization in Standard and Palestinian Arabic
Mohammad A. Mohammad
The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This book is a contribution to both of these areas. It is grounded within the generative grammar framework in one of its most… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 181] 2000. xvi, 189 pp.
The Second Time Around – Minimalism and L2 Acquisition
Julia Herschensohn
Linking recent advances in theoretical syntax and empirical research in language development, the book claims that second language acquisition is not totally distinct from first language acquisition, but rather is a replay, a relearning of language. It argues that Universal Grammar is a template… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 21] 2000. xiv, 287 pp.
Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages
Edited by István Kenesei
The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 182] 1999. viii, 302 pp.
The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach
Edited by Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono
This volume is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in generative studies of second language (L2) acquisition bringing together an unusually broad range of interests and inquiry. Selected papers report on controlled experimental studies within specific areas of research investigating the… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 18] 1999. vi, 428 pp.
Formal Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVIII), University Park, 16–19 April 1998
Edited by Jean-Marc Authier, Barbara E. Bullock and Lisa A. Reed
This volume presents current research in the formal treatment of linguistic phenomena in the Romance languages. It focuses on a variety of issues in phonology, second language acquisition, semantics, and syntax. Topics in phonological theory include the analysis of geminates, assimilation, rhotics,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 185] 1999. xii, 334 pp.
Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno
Edited by Akio Kamio and Ken-ichi Takami
This collection of papers on functional syntax shows the development of a specific stream of functional linguistics initiated by Susumu Kuno of Harvard University. Inspired by Prague School linguists such as Jan Firbas and Vilém Mathesius, Kuno developed a more comprehensive and theory-oriented… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 59] 1999. x, 398 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches – functionalists and formalists – in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41] 1999. vi, 514 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41-42] 1999. vi, 486 pp. & vi, 407 pp.
The Grammar of Focus
Edited by Georges Rebuschi and Laurice Tuller
The grammar of focus has been studied in generative grammar from its inception. It has been the subject of intense, detailed cross-linguistic investigation for over 20 years, particularly within the Principles and Parameters framework. It is appropriate at this point, therefore, to take stock.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 24] 1999. vi, 366 pp.
Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics: Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli
Edited by Jon A. Franco, Alazne Landa and Juan Martín
This volume contains fifteen articles on current theoretical issues in Basque and Romance linguistics. Even though Basque and Romance languages are typologically different and have different genetic origins, one thousand years of coexistence have shown certain parallelisms in their respective… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 187] 1999. viii, 306 pp.
Issues in Mathematical Linguistics: Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998
Edited by Carlos Martín-Vide
This brief collection of refereed papers approaches several technical as well as methodological aspects of the mathematical formalization of natural language, particularly in syntax and in semantics. Such kind of investigation is a prerequisite for the computational processing of language and is… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 47] 1999. xii, 214 pp.
Issues in Morphosyntax
Peter Ackema
Of particular interest to morphologists and syntacticians Issues in Morphosyntax aims to contribute to the discussion on the question whether there exists a separate morphological module in the grammar, distinct from the other modules, with special focus on the connection of morphology with syntax.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 26] 1999. viii, 310 pp.
Morphology-Driven Syntax: A theory of V to I raising and pro-drop
Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
This book argues that syntactic parameters are set in a principled fashion on the basis of overt functional morphology. The main focus of the book is on the different positions of the finite verb in the Germanic SVO languages. In addition, other syntactic phenomena (null subjects, transitive… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 15] 1999. viii, 296 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XII: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1998
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun
The papers in this volume deal with various topics in Arabic Linguistics. Most of the papers focus on new issues and introduce new empirical generalizations that haven't been studied before within the context of Arabic linguistics. The syntax and morphosyntax papers explore issues ranging from the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 190] 1999. vii, 204 pp.
Semantic Issues in Romance Syntax
Edited by Esthela Treviño and José Lema
All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning. Most of them are developed under the principal thesis of the Minimalist Program. These works show that the theoretical linguistic trend is to discover semantic aspects which are assumed to have visible syntactic… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 173] 1999. viii, 309 pp.
Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics
Edited by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan
This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 172] 1999. xxviii, 263 pp.
Verbal Complement Clauses: A minimalist study of direct perception constructions
Claudia Felser
This monograph examines the syntax of bare infinitival and participial complements of perception verbs in English and other European languages, and investigates the general conditions under which verbal complement clauses are licensed. The introductory chapter is followed by an overview of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 25] 1999. xiv, 278 pp.
Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, pronouns, and clause structure in Romance and Germanic
Christopher Laenzlinger
The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 20] 1998. x, 371 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri
The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.
Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency
Anastasia Giannakidou
Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klimas seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 23] 1998. xvi, 282 pp.
Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Chris Wilder
This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of ‘Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 22] 1998. vi, 388 pp
Romance Linguistics: Theoretical Perspectives. Selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVII), Irvine, 20–22 February, 1997
Edited by Armin Schwegler, Bernard Tranel and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
This volume contains selected papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL-27), which was held at the University of California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. The 22 papers deal with current issues in linguistic theory as they can be illuminated by the close analysis and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 160] 1998. vi, 349 pp. + index
Second Language Phonology
John Archibald
This volume explores a variety of aspects of second language speech, with special focus on contributions to the field made by (primarely) generative linguists looking at the sounds and sound systems of second language learners. Second Language Phonology starts off with an overview of second… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 17] 1998. xii, 313 pp.
Adverb Placement: A case study in antisymmetric syntax
Artemis Alexiadou
This monograph investigates a number of central issues in the Syntax of Adverbs with special reference to Greek in the light of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry Hypothesis. It examines the conditions on the placement of the various adverb types, their licensing requirements, and their relation to… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 18] 1997. x, 256 pp.
Clitics, Pronouns and Movement
Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane
The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 140] 1997. 375 pp.
Government and Codeswitching: Explaining American Finnish
Helena Halmari
Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 12] 1997. xvi, 276 pp.
Materials on Left Dislocation
Edited by Elena Anagnostopoulou, Henk van Riemsdijk and Frans Zwarts
Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places. These articles,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 14] 1997. viii, 349 pp.
Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995
Edited by Danielle Forget, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero
In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches. The papers in the present volume address key issues regarding the syntax and semantics of negation and polarity, including both… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 155] 1997. viii, 367 pp.
Rightward Movement
Edited by Dorothee Beermann, David LeBlanc and Henk van Riemsdijk
Symmetries and asymmetries have always played an important role in linguistic theorizing. From the early works on potentially universal properties of transformational processes, differences between rightward and leftward movement processes were noted and constituted a challenge to theories of… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 17] 1997. vi, 410 pp.
Scope and Specificity
Feng-hsi Liu
Scope and Specificity is an investigation of quantifier scope interaction in natural language, with special reference to English and Chinese. In particular, it is concerned with semantic properties of NPs. Quantifier scope plays an important role in current theories of syntax and semantics.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 16] 1997. viii, 187 pp.
Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou and Tracy Alan Hall
The articles of the present volume consist of generative analyses dealing with several current topics of discussion and debate in syntactic theory, such as clitics, word order, scrambling, directionality, movement. The data in the volume are drawn from a number of typologically diverse languages (e. read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 13] 1997. viii, 252 pp.
Case Suspension and Binary Complement Structure in French
Julia Herschensohn
Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions, it argues that… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 132] 1996. xi, 200 pp.
Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons
Edited by Harald Clahsen
Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 14] 1996. xxvii, 499 pp.
Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research
Alan Juffs
This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax. Data from several languages are presented which suggest that semantic structure in root morphemes is subject to parametric… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 12] 1996. xi, 277 pp.
Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation
Edited by James R. Black and Virginia Motapanyane
Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 139] 1996. xviii, 269 pp.
Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework
Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart
The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 12] 1996. xii, 364 pp.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994
Edited by Mushira Eid
This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
Edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Giuliana Giusti
The aim of the book is to collect and make available to the public recent studies on Roumanian in the framework of Generative Grammar. All the studies can be considered as highly advanced from both the empirical and the theoretical point of view. In fact, they deal with many of the phenomena that… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 10] 1995. xi, 172 pp.
On Extraction and Extraposition in German
Edited by Uli Lutz and Jürgen Pafel
Extraction has traditionally been one of the main topics in generative grammar, and it retains this status in current variants of the theory. German provides a good testing ground for traditional as well as current theories of extraction. The nine contributions to this volume document the recent… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 11] 1995. xii, 315 pp.
The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole
Dany Adone
This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 9] 1994. xii, 167 pp.
Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar
Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 8] 1994. xii, 401 pp.
Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition: Null subjects and morphological uniformity
Usha Lakshmanan
This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 10] 1994. x, 162 pp.
English Phonology
John T. Jensen
This is a general discussion of the phonology of English within the frameworks of lexical, metrical, and prosodic phonology. It not only presents a synthesis of current approaches but also reconciles their discrepancies and presents critical commentary. There is a discussion of current theories,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 99] 1993. x, 251 pp.
Generative Studies in Basque Linguistics
Edited by José Ignacio Hualde and Jon Ortiz de Urbina
In part due to its exotic place within the languages of Europe, but mainly because of its basic typological differences with better-described languages, Basque has often attracted the interest of linguists of very different theoretical persuasions. This book presents a collection of articles which… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 105] 1993. 334 pp.
The Parametrization of Universal Grammar
Edited by Gisbert Fanselow
In this volume the subject of parametrization is addressed from various, though interrelated perspectives, ranging from learnability, the form and nature of parametrization, the role of the interface between morphology and syntax and the parameters of X-bar syntax, to the lexical parametrization… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 8] 1993. xvii, 232 pp.
The Rise of Functional Categories
Elly van Gelderen
In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 9] 1993. x, 224 pp.
Aspects of a Cognitive-Pragmatic Theory of Language: On cognition, functionalism, and grammar
Jan Nuyts
This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 20] 1992. xii, 399 pp.
Language Transfer in Language Learning: Revised edition
Edited by Susan M. Gass and Larry Selinker
The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 5] 1992. x, 236 pp.
Morphology: Word structure in generative grammar
John T. Jensen
A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar. The material is presented in the framework of the lexicalist hypothesis of Chomsky (1970), but also taking in the more… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 70] 1990. x, 210 pp.
Scrambling and Barriers
Edited by Günther Grewendorf and Wolfgang Sternefeld
The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling. The analyses presented here refer to the most recent developments in generative grammar (the so-called Barriers-framework developed in Chomsky 1986). Some of the topics discussed… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 5] 1990. vi, 442 pp.
Focus in Generative Grammar
Michael Rochemont
The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with – in English at least – a certain systematic phonological interpretation and – presumably universally – a… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 4] 1986. ix, 221 pp.
Noam Chomsky: A personal bibliography, 1951–1986
Compiled by E.F.K. Koerner † and Matsuji Tajima
The impetus for producing a bibliography of Noam Chomky’s output (so far) derives from a strong interest in and commitment to a historical accounting of the contribution to the field of linguistic theory and possibly other subjects, such as philosophy and political science, by a man who has… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 11] 1986. xi, 217 pp.
The Structure of Complementation
Antonio Carlos Quicoli
The study of complementation has received considerable attention in generative studies. Following Rosenbaum's (1967) pioneering study of the English complement system, there are extensive studies by Lakoff (1965), Ross (1967), Perlmutter (1971) and a large number of publications. More recent… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 3] 1982. xii, 172 pp.
Generative Phonology: A Case Study from French
Nigel Love
This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars — that is, an evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 4] 1981. viii, 241 pp.
The (w)hole of the doughnut: Syntax and its boundaries
S.-Y. Kuroda
From the author’s preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 1] 1979. ix, 256 pp.
Anaphora in Generative Grammar
Thomas Wasow
Intuitively, it is clear why languages have anaphoric relations: anaphora reduces redundancy, thereby shortening (and hence simplifying) sentences. In order for this simplification to be possible, however, it is necessary that the speaker of a language be able to identify correctly the elements… read more[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 2] 1979. x, 181 pp.
Linear Order and Generative Theory
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel and Martin D. Pam
The term ‘word order studies’ designates an area of syntax which has become an increasingly central theme in linguistic research. Since, in at least a narrow sense, syntax is the study of how meaningful elements are put together to form sentences, a preoccupation with word order would seem inherent… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 7] 1979. ix, 512 pp.
Language and Creativity: An interdisciplinary Essay in Chomskyan Humanism
Bernard D. den Ouden
[Not in series - Grüner, 125] 1975. 107 pp.
The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory
Edited by E.F.K. Koerner †
This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1] 1975. viii, 462 pp.