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1	Syntax: A Generative Introduction more books like this by Andrew Carnie add to wishlist Building on the success of the bestselling first edition, the second edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in Principles and Parameters syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions. This title includes new and extended problem ... see all copies from $37.99! new only from $37.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Syntactic Structures more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a ... see all copies from $9.85! new only from $33.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Subjects, Expletives, and the Epp more books like this by Peter Svenonius (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's "Extended Projection Principle" and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's preposition that each clause must have a subject, these articles represent the state of the debate, particularly with respect ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by ... see all copies from $8.16! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Linguistics Wars more books like this by Randy Allen Harris add to wishlist This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $28.52! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the cliche 'this should be read by every researcher in the field'," writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, "but Ray Jackendoff's ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $17.82! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Phonology in Generative Grammar more books like this by Michael J Kenstowicz add to wishlist This is the most comprehensive and current introduction to phonological theory and analysis. Presupposing only minimal background in linguistics, the book introduces the basic concepts and principles of phonological analysis and then systematically develops the major innovations in the generative model since Chomsky and Halle's Sound Patterns of ... see all copies from $29.85! new only from $53.47! \| SVS
8	Transformational Grammar: A First Course more books like this by Andrew Radford add to wishlist Andrew Radford's new textbook is principally for students with little or no background in syntax who need a lively and up-to-date introduction to contemporary work on transformational grammar. It covers four main topics - the goals of linguistic theory, syntactic structure, the nature and role of the lexicon, and the function of transformations ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $46.82! \| SVS
9	Linguistic Theory in America more books like this by Frederick J Newmeyer add to wishlist Linguistic Theory in America documents the origins and development of the world's principal linguistic theory, transformational generative grammar (Chomskyan linguistics). The book treats all aspects of this development, from the 1950s to the present, with emphasis on two specific topics: the amazingly rapid victory of transformational grammar ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $162.29! \| SVS
10	English Grammar: Principles and Facts more books like this by Jeffrey P Kaplan add to wishlist This text gives broad, up-to-date coverage of English grammatical facts and related concepts of introductory linguistics, emphasizing argumentation and motivation for empirically-based grammatical analyses without theoretical debates. It treats the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, phonology, morphology, word classes, phrase structure analysis ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $91.00!
11 view cover	Semantics in Generative Grammar more books like this by Irene Heim, Angelika Kratzer add to wishlist Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the 'Government-Binding' model. It covers the fundamental constructions thoroughly with analyses, but goes well beyond that core, providing extensive discussion of quantification, binding and ... see all copies from $29.85! new only from $40.77! \| SVS
12 view cover	Morphological Theory more books like this by Andrew Spencer add to wishlist This is the first near-exhaustive introduction to the burgeoning field of morphology in generative grammar. Presupposing very little prior knowledge of linguistics, the book guides the reader from absolute basics to the most recent theoretical developments. Written in an accessible style, and including a wealth of exercises, this textbook is ... see all copies from $24.98! new only from $59.99! \| SVS
13 view cover	Word Meaning and Montague Grammar more books like this by David R Dowty add to wishlist see all copies from $22.15! new only from $29.85! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Zero Syntax: Experiencers and Cascades more books like this by David Michael Pesetsky add to wishlist The analysis and theory developed in this volume is an important contribution to the understanding of Universal Grammar. The overriding theme is the notion that the availability and syntactic positioning of arguments is not a matter of chance but arises from laws governing the structure of lexical entries and from laws governing syntactic ... see all copies from $22.50! new only from $24.89!
15 view cover	The Generative Lexicon more books like this by James Pustejovsky add to wishlist "The Generative Lexicon" presents a theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. This formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning lays the foundation for an implemented computational ... see all copies from $23.49! new only from $23.49! \| signed copies \| SVS
16 view cover	Surface Structure and Interpretation more books like this by Mark Steedman add to wishlist Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), the focus of this text, offers a new approach to the theory of natural language grammar. The topics addressed in the text include: the sources of subject-object asymmetries; asymmetric islands; parasitic gaps; and the realtion of coordination and extraction. see all copies from $8.69! new only from $8.69! \| SVS
17 view cover	Chomsky's Universal Grammar 2e more books like this by Vivian Cook, Mark Newson add to wishlist The theory of Universal Grammar is central to the concerns of present-day linguistics. The book is intended as an introduction for those who want a broad overview of the theory with sufficient detail to see how its main concepts work. The new edition of this highly successful textbook incorporates recent developments in the field. Chomsky's ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $39.00!
18 view cover	Semantic Structures more books like this by Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist "Semantic Structures" is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the theory of conceptual semantics described in Ray Jackendoff's earlier books "Semantics and Cognition" and "Consciousness and the Computational Mind". Jackendoff begins by summarizing the relevant arguments in ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $27.21! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach more books like this by Robert D Borsley add to wishlist Syntactic theory is central to the study of language. This innovative book introduces the ideas which underlie most approaches to syntax and shows how they have been developed within two broad frameworks: principles and parameters theory and phrase structure grammar. While other texts either concentrate on one theory or treat them as totally ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Syntax more books like this by Andrew Carnie add to wishlist This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major issues in syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions. Written primarily in the Principles and Parameters framework, the text also includes an introduction to Minimalism and gives a brief survey of both Lexical ... see all copies from $19.50! new only from $44.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works, Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over ... see all copies from $7.87! new only from $11.98! \| SVS
22 view cover	Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development more books like this by Michel De Graff (Editor) add to wishlist This text is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on ... see all copies from $6.69! new only from $6.69! \| first editions
23 view cover	Move α: Conditions on Its Application and Output more books like this by Howard Lasnik, Mamoru Saito add to wishlist This contribution to modern syntactic theory elaborates a principles-and-parameters framework in which the differences and similarities among languages with respect to WH-questions can be captured. "Move Alpha" is part of an overall programme, initiated by Noam Chomsky, to create a global theory in which the entire transformational component can ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
24 view cover	Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates more books like this by Geoffrey J Huck, Goldsmith John, John A Goldsmith add to wishlist 'It is certainly a measure of how deeply they have cut that Chomsky's critiques have received the attention they have; indeed, a number of the academic arguments in which he has been involved have become so concentrated and so fraught with controversy that they have managed to catch the notice of those who might otherwise have had no interest in ... see all copies from $10.02! new only from $35.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Structure of Cp and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 2 more books like this by Luigi Rizzi (Editor) add to wishlist The purpose of this edited volume is to study the structure of the inflectional field and the left peripheral field of clauses, often described as the systems of IP (Inflection Phrase, a syntactic category used to describe clauses without complement clauses) and CP (Complementizer Phrase, a word or phrase marking a complement clause). With ... see all copies from $55.65! new only from $71.24! \| SVS

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