The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)

Cambridge University Press, 4/16/2020
EAN 9781108744362, ISBN10: 1108744362

Paperback, 1163 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 5.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

Part I. Background
1. Introduction Marcel den Dikken
2. Brief overview of the history of generative syntax Howard Lasnik and Terje Lohndal
3. Goals and methods of generative syntax Frederick Newmeyer
Part II. Modern Generative Approaches to the Study of Sentence Structure
4. Principles and parameters theory and minimalism Željko Bošković
5. Minimalism and optimality theory Hans Broekhuis and Ellen Woolford
6. Lexical-functional grammar Peter Sells
7. Phrase structure grammar James Blevins and Ivan Sag
8. Tree adjoining grammar Robert Frank
Part III. Syntactic Structures
9. Argument structure and argument structure alternations Gillian Ramchand
10. The syntax of predication Caroline Heycock
11. Lexical categories and (extended) projection Norbert Corver
12. The functional structure of the sentence, and cartography Luigi Rizzi
13. Adverbial and adjectival modification Artemis Alexiadou
Part IV. Syntactic Processes
Their Nature, Locality, and Motivation
14. Economy of derivation and representation Samuel David Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Miki Obata and T. Daniel Seely
15. Syntax, binding and patterns of anaphora Ken Safir
16. Raising and control Maria Polinsky
17. Agreement and case Mark Baker
18. The locality of syntactic dependencies Marcel den Dikken and Antje Lahne
Part V. Syntax and the Internal Interfaces
19. Ellipsis phenomena Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Jason Merchant
20. Tense, aspect and modality Karen Zagona
21. Negation and negative polarity Hedde Zeijlstra
22. The syntax of scope and quantification Veneeta Dayal
23. Syntax, information structure and prosody Daniel Büring
Part VI. Syntax and the External Interfaces
24. Microsyntactic variation Sjef Barbiers
25. Parameters
the pluses and the minuses Rosalind Thornton and Stephen Crain
26. Syntax and the brain Jon Sprouse and Ellen F. Lau.