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TheCambridgeHandbookofGenerativeSyntax
Syntax–thestudyofsentencestructure–hasbeenatthecenterofgenerative
linguisticsfromitsinception,andhasdevelopedrapidlyandinvarious
directions.TheCambridgeHandbookofGenerativeSyntaxprovidesahistorical
contextforwhatishappeninginthefieldofgenerativesyntaxtoday,asurvey
ofthevariousgenerativeapproachestosyntacticstructureavailableinthe
literature,andanoverviewofthestateoftheartintheprincipalmodulesof
thetheoryandtheinterfaceswithsemantics,phonology,information
structure,andsentenceprocessing,aswellaslinguisticvariationandlanguage
acquisition.Thisindispensableresourceforadvancedstudents,professional
linguists(generativeandnon-generativealike),andscholarsinrelatedfieldsof
inquirypresentsacomprehensivesurveyofthefieldofgenerativesyntactic
researchinallitsvariety,writtenbyleadingexpertsandprovidingaproper
senseoftherangeofsyntactictheoriescallingthemselvesgenerative.
marcel den dikken isaprofessoroflinguisticsattheGraduateCenterof
theCityUniversityofNewYork.
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The Cambridge
Handbook of
Generative Syntax
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Marcel den Dikken
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Contents
Listofcontributors pagevii
Preface ix
PartI Background 1
1 Introduction MarceldenDikken 3
2 Briefoverviewofthehistoryofgenerativesyntax
HowardLasnikandTerjeLohndal 26
3 Goalsandmethodsofgenerativesyntax FrederickJ.Newmeyer 61
PartII Moderngenerativeapproachestothestudyofsentence
structure 93
4 PrinciplesandParameterstheoryandMinimalism
ZˇeljkoBosˇkovic´ 95
5 MinimalismandOptimalityTheory HansBroekhuisand
EllenWoolford 122
6 Lexical-FunctionalGrammar PeterSells 162
7 Phrasestructuregrammar JamesP.BlevinsandIvanA.Sag 202
8 TreeAdjoiningGrammar RobertFrank 226
PartIII Syntacticstructures 263
9 Argumentstructureandargumentstructure
alternations GillianRamchand 265
10 Thesyntaxofpredication CarolineHeycock 322
11 Lexicalcategoriesand(extended)projection NorbertCorver 353
12 Thefunctionalstructureofthesentence,and
cartography LuigiRizzi 425
13 Adverbialandadjectivalmodification ArtemisAlexiadou 458
vi Contents
PartIV Syntacticprocesses:theirnature,locality,andmotivation 485
14 Economyofderivationandrepresentation SamuelD.Epstein,
HisatsuguKitahara,MikiObata,andT.DanielSeely 487
15 Syntax,binding,andpatternsofanaphora KenSafir 515
16 Raisingandcontrol MariaPolinsky 577
17 AgreementandCase MarkC.Baker 607
18 Thelocalityofsyntacticdependencies MarceldenDikken
andAntjeLahne 655
PartV Syntaxandtheinternalinterfaces 699
19 Ellipsisphenomena JeroenvanCraenenbroeckand
JasonMerchant 701
20 Tense,aspect,andmodality KarenZagona 746
21 Negationandnegativepolarity HeddeZeijlstra 793
22 Thesyntaxofscopeandquantification VeneetaDayal 827
23 Syntax,informationstructure,andprosody DanielBu¨ring 860
PartVI Syntaxandtheexternalinterfaces 897
24 Microsyntacticvariation SjefBarbiers 899
25 Parameters:theplusesandtheminuses RosalindThornton
andStephenCrain 927
26 Syntaxandthebrain JonSprouseandEllenF.Lau 971
References 1006
Indexoflanguagenames 1140
Index 1143
Contributors
ArtemisAlexiadou,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,
UniversityofStuttgart
MarkC.Baker,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,RutgersUniversity
SjefBarbiers,Professor,MeertensInstitute(RoyalNetherlandsAcademy
ofArtsandSciences),andUtrechtUniversity
JamesP.Blevins,AssistantDirectorofResearch,UniversityofCambridge
ZˇeljkoBosˇkovic´,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,Universityof
Connecticut
HansBroekhuis,Seniorresearcher,MeertensInstitute(Royal
NetherlandsAcademyofArtsandSciences)
DanielBu¨ring,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,Universityof
Vienna
NorbertCorver,Professor,UtrechtInstituteofLinguistics
(OnderzoeksinstituutvoorTaalenSpraak),UtrechtUniversity
JeroenvanCraenenbroeck,AssistantProfessor,CenterforResearchin
Syntax,Semantics,andPhonology(CRISSP),Hogeschool-Universiteit
Brussel
StephenCrain,DistinguishedProfessor,DepartmentofLinguisticsand
ARCCentreofExcellenceinCognitionanditsDisorders,Macquarie
University
VeneetaDayal,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,RutgersUniversity
MarceldenDikken,Professor,LinguisticsProgram,CUNYGraduate
Center
SamuelD.Epstein,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,Universityof
Michigan
RobertFrank,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,YaleUniversity
CarolineHeycock,Professor,DepartmentofLinguisticsandEnglish
Language,UniversityofEdinburgh
viii Listofcontributors
HisatsuguKitahara,Professor,InstituteofCulturalandLinguistic
Studies,KeioUniversity
AntjeLahne,AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofLinguistics,
UniversitityofKonstanz
HowardLasnik,DistinguishedUniversityProfessor,Departmentof
Linguistics,UniversityofMaryland
EllenF.Lau,AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofLinguistics,Universityof
Maryland
TerjeLohndal,AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofModernForeign
Languages,NorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology,
Trondheim
JasonMerchant,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,Universityof
Chicago
FrederickJ.Newmeyer,ProfessorEmeritus,DepartmentofLinguistics,
UniversityofWashington;AdjunctProfessor,UniversityofBritish
ColumbiaandSimonFraserUniversity
MikiObata,AssistantProfessor,FacultyofHumanities,Law,and
Economics,MieUniversity
MariaPolinsky,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,HarvardUniversity
GillianRamchand,Professor,InstituteforLinguistics/CASTL–Centerfor
AdvancedStudyinTheoreticalLinguistics,UniversityofTromsø
LuigiRizzi,Professor,InterdepartmentalCenterofCognitiveStudieson
Language(CentroInterdipartimentalediStudiCognitivisulLinguaggio),
UniversityofSiena
KenSafir,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,RutgersUniversity
IvanA.Sag,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,StanfordUniversity
T.DanielSeely,Professor,LinguisticsProgram,EasternMichigan
University
PeterSells,Professor,DepartmentofLanguageandLinguisticScience,
UniversityofYork
JonSprouse,AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofCognitiveSciences,
UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine
RosalindThornton,AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofLinguisticsand
ARCCentreofExcellenceinCognitionanditsDisorders,Macquarie
University
EllenWoolford,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,Universityof
Massachusetts,Amherst
KarenZagona,Professor,DepartmentofLinguistics,Universityof
Washington
HeddeZeijlstra,AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofDutchLinguistics,
UniversityofAmsterdam
Description: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,