1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Syntax
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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Constituency, Categories and Structure
- Merge, Labeling and Projection
- Argument Structure
- The Integration, Proliferation and Expansion of Functional Categories,
- Functional Structure Inside Nominal Phrases
- The Syntax of Adjectives
- Head Movement
- Case and Grammatical Relations
- A-bar Movement
- The Syntax of Ellipsis and Related Phenomena
- Binding Theory
- Control Theory
- Scrambling
- Noun Incorporation, Nonconfigurationality, and Polysynthesis
- The Syntax-Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
- The Syntax-Lexicon Interface
- The Morphology-Syntax Interface
- Prosodic Domains and Syntax-Phonology Interface
- Syntactic Change
- Syntax in Forward and in Reverse: Form, Memory, and Language Processing
- Major Theories in Acquisition of Syntax Research
- The Evolutionary Origins of Syntax
Naoki Fukui and Hiroki Narita
Jaume Mateu
Lisa deMena Travis
Jeffrey Punske
Artemis Alexiadou
6 The Syntax of Adverbs,
Thomas Ernst
Part 2 Syntactic Phenomena
Michael Barrie and Éric Mathieu
Maria Polinsky and Omer Preminger
Norvin Richards
Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao and Iván Ortega-Santos
Robert Truswell
Norbert Hornstein and Jairo Nunes
Yosuke Sato and Nobu Goto
Kumiko Murasugi
Part 3 Syntactic Interfaces
Sylvia L.R. Schreiner
Peter Ackema
Daniel Siddiqi
Dobashi Yoshihito
Part 4 Syntax in Context
Ian Roberts
Matt Wagers
Susannah Kirby
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
Biography
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.
"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 syntactician’s book shelf, and is sure to leave its mark on many future syntax syllabi."
Dennis Ott, University of Ottawa, Canada, The LINGUIST List