The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

About this book

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Preface
  5. Part I Background
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 Brief overview of the history of generative syntax
  8. 3 Goals and methods of generative syntax
  9. Part II Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure
  10. 4 Principles and Parameters theory and Minimalism
  11. 5 Minimalism and Optimality Theory
  12. 6 Lexical-Functional Grammar
  13. 7 Phrase structure grammar
  14. 8 Tree Adjoining Grammar
  15. Part III Syntactic structures
  16. 9 Argument structure and argument structure alternations
  17. 10 The syntax of predication
  18. 11 Lexical categories and (extended) projection
  19. 12 The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography
  20. 13 Adverbial and adjectival modification
  21. Part IV Syntactic processes: their nature, locality, and motivation
  22. 14 Economy of derivation and representation
  23. 15 Syntax, binding, and patterns of anaphora
  24. 16 Raising and control
  25. 17 Agreement and Case
  26. 18 The locality of syntactic dependencies
  27. Part V Syntax and the internal interfaces
  28. 19 Ellipsis phenomena
  29. 20 Tense, aspect, and modality
  30. 21 Negation and negative polarity
  31. 22 The syntax of scope and quantification
  32. 23 Syntax, information structure, and prosody
  33. Part VI Syntax and the external interfaces
  34. 24 Microsyntactic variation
  35. 25 Parameters: the pluses and the minuses
  36. 26 Syntax and the brain
  37. References
  38. Index of language names
  39. Index