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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Expletives, and the Epp more books like this by Peter Svenonius (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's "Extended Projection Principle" and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like "it" that stand for other words).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	Understanding Syntax more books like this by Maggie Tallerman add to wishlist Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it discusses and illustrates all the major terms and concepts essential to the study of sentence structure in the world's languages. 'Noun' and 'verb' are explained, and the properties of these categories are discussed. The reader discovers what a finite verb is, what 'first person singular' means and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.40! \| first editions \| SVS
5	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
6	Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists more books like this by Thomas E Payne add to wishlist Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing languages have never been described, or described only inadequately. This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of these many ... see all copies from $30.37! new only from $36.60! \| SVS
7	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 $12.70! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
8	Beginning Syntax more books like this by Linda Thomas (Editor) add to wishlist This is an elementary introduction to syntactic analysis. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject whatsoever, it is intended for students who are encountering such analysis for the first time. For those embarking on a longer term study of syntax, this will be a valuable and quickly assimilated foundation course. For students who will need to ... see all copies from $25.88! new only from $37.84!
9	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
10	Functional Structure in DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures Volume 1 more books like this by Guglielmo Cinque (Editor) add to wishlist This edited volume presents the first results of a long term research project, funded by the Italian Government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. Structural representations are seen to arise from the combinations of two kinds syntactic atoms: lexical ... see all copies from $54.87! new only from $54.87! \| SVS
11 view cover	Phonology and Syntax: The Relation Between Sound and Structure more books like this by Elisabeth O Selkirk add to wishlist A fundamentally new approach to the theory of phonology and its relation to syntax is developed in this book, which is the first to address the question of the relation between syntax and phonology in a systematic way. see all copies from $31.20! new only from $53.00!
12 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
13 view cover	Syntactic Analysis and Description more books like this by David G Lockwood add to wishlist Aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this work covers the varieties of syntactic phenomena in different languages and a method of analyzing and describing them. The method is based on the concept of the syntactic construction, which is shared by various views of language structure. In this particular presentation, a construction ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $49.40! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Analysing English Sentences: A Minimalist Approach more books like this by Andrew Radford add to wishlist Analysing English Sentences provides a concise and clear introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntax or minimalism, Radford outlines the core concepts and leading ideas and how they can be used to describe various aspects of the ... see all copies from $43.82! new only from $43.82! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax more books like this by Pilar Barbosa (Editor), Danny Fox (Editor), Paul Hagstrom (Editor) add to wishlist Developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best choice from a set of candidate derivations. This idea departs from traditional approaches to the output of ... see all copies from $3.80! new only from $6.80! \| first editions
16 view cover	Principle B, VP Ellipsis, and Interpretation in Child Grammar more books like this by Rosalind Thornton add to wishlist Among the universal principles of language are those in the area of binding theory. Such principles constrain the range of interpretations that can be assigned to sentences containing reflexives and reciprocals, pronouns and referring expressions. The principle that is relevant for pronouns, Principle B, has stood out as ananomaly to the ... see all copies from $3.77! new only from $5.98!
17 view cover	The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax more books like this by Guglielmo Cinque (Editor), Richard S Kayne (Editor) add to wishlist Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in comparing differences that might otherwise appear unrealted, and has helped to identify the core principles of Universal Grammar. This comprehensive handbook serves two functions. It will provide a ... see all copies from $20.52! new only from $40.69! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Syntax and Parsing more books like this by Paul Gorrell add to wishlist This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the recovery of syntactic structure and which utilizes the contrasting types of information found within a Government-Binding grammar. Paul Gorrell contrasts the primary relations (dominance and precedence ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $32.40! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax more books like this by Brian Roark, Richard Sproat add to wishlist The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic phenomena, showing how these techniques have been used and modified in practice. The authors ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $42.00!
20 view cover	The Organization of Language more books like this by Janice Moulton add to wishlist What are the essential features that permit a sentence to convey a complex idea? What must language users do in order to produce and understand meaningful sentences? And what enables humans, and perhaps apes and robots, to learn this remarkable skill? Janice Moulton and George Robinson offer a fresh and readable approach to these questions. They ... see all copies from $4.44! new only from $55.62! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Syntactic Gradience: The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy more books like this by Bas Aarts add to wishlist This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be defined and differentiated. Professor Aarts addresses the tension between linguistic concepts and the continuous phenomena they ... see all copies from $41.58! new only from $41.58! \| first editions
22 view cover	Logical syntax of language more books like this by Rudolf Carnap add to wishlist Rudolf Carnap's entire theory of Language structure "came to me," he reports, "like a vision during a sleepless night in January 1931, when I was ill." This theory appeared in The Logical Syntax of Language (1934). Carnap argued that many philosophical controversies really depend upon whether a particular language form should be used. This leads ... see all copies from $19.50! new only from $288.02! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Direct Compositionality more books like this by Dr. Chris Barker (Editor), Pauline Jacobson (Editor) add to wishlist This book examines the hypothesis of "direct compositionality", which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination. Although associated with the dominant view in formal semantics of the 1970s and 1980s, the feasibility of direct compositionality remained unsettled, and more recently the discussion as to ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $45.69! \| first editions
24 view cover	Language and the Learning Curve: A New Theory of Syntactic Development more books like this by Anat Ninio add to wishlist Language development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions to the debate from researchers in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy, though there have been surprisingly few interdisciplinary attempts at unifying the various theories. In Language ... see all copies from $27.09! new only from $35.04! \| SVS
25 view cover	Simpler Syntax more books like this by Peter W Culicover, Ray Jackendoff add to wishlist This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts ... see all copies from $24.75! new only from $33.10! \| SVS

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