Syntactic theory: the essential readings

Syntactic Theory: The Essential Readings provides a selection of key seminal articles in syntax that demonstrate the empirical and theoretical reasoning that led to current syntactic theory. The accompanying introduction and discussion questions by two prominent researchers teach students how to critically read precedent-setting works, highlighting the ways in which each article is simultaneously outmoded and yet still essential. Each article's lasting contribution to an inclusive basic understanding of the field of syntax is illustrated throughout the volume. Authors excerpted in the book include Noam Chomsky, PaulPostal, Howard Lasnik, and Luigi Rizzi.By selecting works that are written inolder frameworks but are still pertinent today, Syntactic Theory: The Essential Readings trains students to read primary literature beyond the setting in which it was written, isolating significant insights and applications. INDICE: . The Mirror Principle and Morphosyntactic Explanation: Mark Baker(Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2. On Complementizers: Toward a syntactic theory of complement types: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University). 3. Remarks on Nominalization: Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4.Conditions on Transformations: Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 5. On Wh-movement: Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 6. Stranding: Hans den Besten (University of Amsterdam) and Gert Webelhuth (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 7. Parasitic gaps: Elisabet Engdahl (University of Gothenberg, Sweden). 8. Move WH in a Language without WH Movement: C. T. James Huang Harvard University). 9. Two notes on the NIC: Richard S. Kayne (New York University). 10. On Certain Differences between French and English: Richard S. Kayne (New York University). 11. Facets of Romance PastParticiple Agreement: Richard S. Kayne (New York University). 12. The position of subjects: Hilda Koopman (University of California at Los Angeles) and Dominique Sportiche (University of California at Los Angeles). 13. Why subject sentences don't exist: Jan Koster (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). 14. On the Double Object Construction: Richard Larson (State University of New York at Stony Brook). 15. Remarks on coreference: Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland). 16. Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP: Jean-Yves Pollock (Universite de Picardie a Amiens). 17. On So-Called 'Pronouns' in English: Paul Postal (New York University). 18. Violations of the Wh island constraint and the subjancy condition: Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena, Italy). 19. Negation, Wh-movement, and the null subject parameter: Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena, Italy). 20. A theory of floating quantifiers and its corollaries for constituent structure: Dominique Sportiche (University of California at Los Angeles). 21. The Noun Phrase: Anna Szabolcsi (New York University).

• ISBN: 978-0-631-23588-0
• Editorial: Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 608
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés