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more information – www.cambridge.org/9780521769860 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. CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOKS IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Genuinelybroadinscope,eachhandbookinthisseriesprovidesacomplete state-of-the-fieldoverviewofamajorsub-disciplinewithinlanguagestudyand research.Groupedintobroadthematicareas,thechaptersineachvolume encompassthemostimportantissuesandtopicswithineachsubject,offering acoherentpictureofthelatesttheoriesandfindings.Together,thevolumes willbuildintoanintegratedoverviewofthedisciplineinitsentirety. 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Firstpublished2013 PrintedandboundintheUnitedKingdombytheMPGBooksGroup AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata TheCambridgeHandbookofGenerativeSyntax/EditedbyMarceldenDikken. pages cm HandbookofGenerativeSyntax Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-521-76986-0 1. Grammar,Comparativeandgeneral–Syntax. 2. Generativegrammar. I. Dikken, Marcelden,1965–editorofcompilation. II. Title:HandbookofGenerativeSyntax. P291.C326 2013 415–dc23 2013017092 ISBN978-0-521-76986-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. 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

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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,
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