Syntax

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Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

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Syntax is a comprehensive collection that explores the foundational concepts and analytic tools of generative syntax developed over the past fifty years. The set is divided into volumes covering essential topics: phrase structure, transformations involving movement and deletion phenomena, and the conditions governing syntactic rules and representations. Featuring seminal articles by leading linguists such as Chomsky, Jackendoff, and Bresnan, this collection offers an authoritative overview of syntactic theory, from its origins to contemporary discussions. Each volume includes editorial introductions and a detailed index for ease of reference.
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This collection is ideal for advanced students, researchers, and professionals in linguistics specialising in syntax and generative grammar seeking an in-depth academic resource.

This collection covers the key concepts and analytic tools of generative syntax of the last fifty years from Chomsky's Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (1951) to the present day.

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This collection covers the fundamental concepts and analytic tools of generative syntax of the last fifty years, from Chomsky's Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (1951) to the present day. It makes available, in one place, key published material on each of the following areas:

Phrase structure: This first volume includes articles on the phrase structure of linguistic expressions: how it is represented and the grammatical mechanisms that create it – in short, the foundations of syntactic theory.

Transformations: (2 volumes) These volumes cover the development of the major mechanisms accounting for displacement and deletion phenomena, including verbal morphology, NP-movement, wh-movement, extraposition, VP-deletion and gapping.

Conditions on Rules and Representations: (2 volumes) These volumes cover the major constraints on the application of transformations and the representations they create, including the cycle, Case theory, binding theory, government, locality, theta theory, the projection principle, and the extended projection principle.

The volumes include articles by leading contributors to the field: Baltin, Bresnan, Chomsky, Freidin, Stowell, Hale, Huang, Jackendoff, Kayne, Lasnik, McCawley, Pollock, Postal, Reinhart, Rizzi, Ross, Stowell, Torrego, Travis, Vergnaud, and Williams — among many others.

Each volume contains a general introduction by the editors and a full index.