The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

Marcel den Dikken

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780521769860
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107352087
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

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