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.
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"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. 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
"...[ The Routledge Handbook of Syntax] is overall a stellar addition to the growing body of survey literature that deserves a special slot on every syntacticians book shelf, and is sure to leave its mark on many future syntax syllabi." Dennis Ott, University of Ottawa, Canada, The LINGUIST List
Editors Introduction. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Part 1:
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 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 2 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. Control Theory Norbert Hornstein and Jairo Nunes
13.
Scrambling Yosuke Sato and Nobu Goto
14. Noun Incorporation,
Nonconfigurationality, and Polysynthesis Kumiko Murasugi Part 3 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
Syntax-Phonology Interface Dobashi Yoshihito Part 4 Syntax in Context
19.
Syntactic Change Ian Roberts
20. Syntax in Forward and in Reverse: Form,
Memory, and Language Processing Matt Wagers
21. Major Theories in Acquisition
of Syntax Research Susannah Kirby
22. The Evolutionary Origins of Syntax
Maggie Tallerman Part 5 Theoretical Approaches to Syntax
23. The History of
Syntax Peter Culicover
24. Comparative Syntax Martin Haspelmath
25.
Principles and Parameters/Minimalism Juan Uriagereka and Terje Lohndal
26.
Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Felix Bildhauer
27. Lexical-Functional
Grammar George Aaron Broadwall
28. Role and Reference Grammar Robert Van
Valin 29 Dependency Grammar Timothy Osborne
30. Morphosyntax in Functional
Discourse Grammar Lachlan MacKenzie
31. Construction Grammar Seizi Iwata
32.
Categorial Grammar Mark Steedman. Index
Andrew Carnie is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Arizona, USA.
Yosuke Sato is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore.
Daniel Siddiqi is an Associate Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
