Routledge Leading Linguists
Series Editor: Carlos Otero, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
The books in this series, Routledge Leading Linguists, draw together some of the seminal essays from the most important linguists of the last decades. Each book covers one scholar, making the best of his or her work readily accessible and available in one place for the first time.
-
Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Hierarchies
The Work of Eloise Jelinek in Context
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic theory, information structure, and several Native American languages (including Lummi, Yaqui, and Navajo). She was one of the very first generative linguists who brought the theoretical implications of the properties of typologically...
To Be Published January 1st 2014 by Routledge
-
On Shell Structure
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light...
To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge
-
Typological Studies
Word Order and Relative Clauses
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general...
Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
-
The Equilibrium of Human Syntax
Symmetries in the Brain
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
-
Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miyagawa's work addresses the nature of the relationship between syntax and argument structure, and how case marking and other phenomena help to...
Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
-
Derivations
Exploring the Dynamics of Syntax
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions within the Minimalist Program. The book persues a naturalistic take on Minimalism, explicitly connecting...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
-
Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory. The essays collected here show how and why agreement has emerged in recent years as the central theoretical construct in minimalism....
Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
-
Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to...
Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
-
Between Syntax and Semantics
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events....
Published October 4th 2009 by Routledge
-
Structures and Strategies
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax and the syntax of verb-related phenomena of agreement and...
Published December 8th 2008 by Routledge
-
Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory. The essays collected here show how and why agreement has emerged in recent years as the central theoretical construct in minimalism....
Published December 17th 2007 by Routledge
-
Generative Grammar
Theory and its History
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar. The essays collected here display Freidin's role in moving the theory forward in terms of new proposals,...
Published April 29th 2007 by Routledge
-
A Unification of Morphology and Syntax
Investigations into Romance and Albanian Dialects
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland. The empirical base used in the book includes a wealth of previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romansch...
Published November 20th 2006 by Routledge
-
Theoretical Comparative Syntax
Studies in Macroparameters
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the typological differences between English/type language and Japanese/type languages,...
Published January 16th 2006 by Routledge
-
Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Professor Howard Lasnik is one of the world's leading theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and important work in areas such as syntactic theory, logical form, and learnability. This collection of essays draws together some of his best work from his substantial contribution to...
Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge
-
Essays on Syntax and Semantics
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This much needed book draws together some of the seminal essays from one of the most important contemporary linguists, and makes them easily accessible in one place for the first time. James Higginbotham includes a new introduction orientating the reader to the links between the topics covered, and...
Published July 31st 2004 by Routledge
-
Towards an Elegant Syntax
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. The author shows that although the conceptual difference between 'elegance' and the minimalist search for 'perfection' may appear to be subtle, its consequences are in fact wide...
Published April 30th 2003 by Routledge
-
Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Professor Howard Lasnik is one of the world's leading theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and important work in areas such as syntactic theory, logical form, and learnability. This collection of essays draws together some of his best work from his substantial contribution to...
Published December 11th 2002 by Routledge
-
Derivations
Exploring the Dynamics of Syntax
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions within the Minimalist Program. The book persues a naturalistic take on Minimalism, explicitly connecting...
Published April 10th 2002 by Routledge
-
Configurations of Sentential Complementation
Perspectives from Romance Languages
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework of generative grammar.The first part of the book focuses on infinitival complements. The author...
Published June 28th 2000 by Routledge
-
Comparative Syntax and Language Acquisition
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
In this collection of essays, the author addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acquisition. Key topics are explored, including the properties of null elements and the theory of parameters. Some of the essays presented...
Published June 21st 2000 by Routledge
-
Essays in Syntactic Theory
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
The essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. Key topics covered include movement phenomena and the syntax of logical form, methods in generative linguistics and the role of rules vs. principles in syntactic theory. This volume...
Published May 3rd 2000 by Routledge
-
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads
Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and...
Published October 20th 1999 by Routledge
-
Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure
Subjects, Agreement, Case and Clitics
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time. The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This...
Published June 17th 1998 by Routledge