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Voice and v
An investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian) as the empirical starting point.In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the …
Locality in Minimalist Syntax
This minimalist study proposes that the computational system of human language must consist of strictly local operations.In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax, …
(Re)labeling
A new theory of labeling that sheds light on such syntactic phenomena as relativization, successive cyclicity, island phenomena, and Minimality effects.When two categories merge …
Composing Questions
An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement.In this book, Hadas …
Provocative Syntax
A new theory of syntactic movement within a Chomskyan framework.Chomsky showed that no description of natural language syntax would be adequate without some notion of movement …
Arguments as Relations
A radically new approach to argument structure in the minimalist program.In Arguments as Relations, John Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the …
Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories
A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar.In this book, David Pesetsky argues …
Impossible Persons
A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.Impossible Persons, Daniel …
The Final-Over-Final Condition
An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.This book presents evidence for a …
On the Syntactic Composition of Manner and Motion
This crosslinguistic study of the structure of motion predicates argues for the universal syntactic nature of the composition of manner and motion within the verbal constituent. In …
Probes and Their Horizons
A comprehensive theory of selective opacity effects-configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others-within a Minimalist …