The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

Andrew Carnie, Dan Siddiqi, Yosuke Sato, Andrew Carnie, Dan Siddiqi, Yosuke Sato

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781138480582
• eBook ISBN: 9781317751038
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theoretical and empirical advances in the dynamically evolving field of syntax from a variety of perspectives, both within the dominant generative paradigm and between syntacticians working within generative grammar and those working in functionalist and related approaches.

The handbook covers key issues within the field that include:

• core areas of syntactic empirical investigation,

• contemporary approaches to syntactic theory,

• interfaces of syntax with other components of the human language system,

• experimental and computational approaches to syntax.

Bringing together renowned linguistic scientists and cutting-edge scholars from across the discipline and providing a balanced yet comprehensive overview of the field, the Routledge Handbook of Syntax is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in syntactic theory.

Praise for this volume:

“The Handbook brings together thoughtful and judicious essays by outstanding scholars, covering the many aspects of syntax that have been explored and developed extensively in recent years. It is sure to be of great value to a wide range of users, from students to those engaged in advanced research, as well as to others who want to gain some sense of current ideas about the nature of language. A very welcome and impressive contribution.”

Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

“This is an excellent book, both rich in detail and beautifully clear and accessible. The most important phenomena and theoretical issues in generative grammar are discussed in an even-handed and interesting way. I especially appreciate the sections that situate syntactic theory in its various contexts: interfaces with other structural aspects of language, relations to language change, acquisition and processing, and the rich range of theoretical approaches currently being pursued. The combination of historical perspective, theoretical and methodological breadth, and up-to-date insights makes it a must-read for graduate students, and a valuable resource for specialists.”

Elizabeth Cowper, University of Toronto, Canada

“This comprehensive handbook presents in an impressively clear way the current issues on the central topics of the rapidly advancing field. It is a valuable resource for researchers and is useful especially for graduate students as each chapter includes a concise introduction of a research area and illustrates the recent developments step by step, leading up to ongoing research.”

Mamoru Saito, Department of Anthropology and Philosophy, Nanzan University

The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

Edited by Andrew Carnie, Yosuke Sato, and Daniel Siddiqi

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

The Routledge handbook of syntax/edited by Andrew Carnie, Yosuke Sato and Daniel Siddiqi.

pages cm – (Routledge handbooks in linguistics)

“Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge.”

Includes index.

1. Grammar, Comparative and general–Syntax–Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Generative grammar–Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Carnie, Andrew, 1969- editor of compilation. II. Sato, Yosuke, 1978- editor of compilation. III. Siddiqi, Daniel, editor of compilation. IV. Title: Handbook of syntax.

P291.R68 2014

415–dc23

ISBN: 978-0-415-53394-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-79660-4 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315796604

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Sunrise Setting Ltd, Paignton, UK

Contents

• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Editors’ introduction
• Part I Constituency, categories, and structure
  • 1 Merge, labeling, and projection
    Naoki Fukui and Hiroki Narita
  • 2 Argument structure
    Jaume Mateu
  • 3 The integration, proliferation, and expansion of functional categories An overview
    Lisa deMena Travis
  • 4 Functional structure inside nominal phrases
    Jeffrey Punske
  • 5 The syntax of adjectives
    Artemis Alexiadou
  • 6 The syntax of adverbs
    Thomas Ernst
• Part II Syntactic phenomena
  • 7 Head movement
    Michael Barrie and Éric Mathieu
  • 8 Case and grammatical relations
    Maria Polinsky and Omer Preminger
  • 9 A-bar movement
    Norvin Richards
  • 10 The syntax of ellipsis and related phenomena
    Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao, and Iván Ortega-Santos
  • 11 Binding theory
    Robert Truswell
  • 12 Minimalism and control
    Norbert Hornstein and Jairo Nunes
  • 13 Scrambling
    Yosuke Sato and Nobu Goto
  • 14 Noun incorporation, nonconfigurationality, and polysynthesis
    Kumiko Murasugi
• Part III Syntactic interfaces
  • 15 The syntax–semantics/pragmatics interface
    Sylvia L.R. Schreiner
  • 16 The syntax–lexicon interface
    Peter Ackema
  • 17 The morphology–syntax interface
    Daniel Siddiqi
  • 18 Prosodic domains and the syntax-phonology interface
    Yoshihito Dobashi
• Part IV Syntax in context
  • 19 Syntactic change
    Ian Roberts
  • 20 Syntax in forward and in reverse Form, memory, and language processing
    Matthew W. Wagers
  • 21 Major theories in acquisition of syntax research
    Susannah Kirby
  • 22 The evolutionary origins of syntax
    Maggie Tallerman
• Part V Theoretical approaches to syntax
  • 23 The history of syntax
    Peter W. Culicover
  • 24 Comparative syntax
    Martin Haspelmath
  • 25 Principles and Parameters/Minimalism
    Terje Loh...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series
• Series 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Editors’ introduction
• Part I Constituency, categories, and structure
• Part II Syntactic phenomena
• Part III Syntactic interfaces
• Part IV Syntax in context
• Part V Theoretical approaches to syntax
• Index