Search results for “[Subject: linguistics-syntax]”

• Author(s): C. L. Baker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.English Sy...

• Author(s): Derek Bickerton | Eors Szathmary • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInterdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on sy...

• Author(s): Michelle Sheehan | Theresa Biberauer | Ian Roberts • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAn examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order const...

• Author(s): Ann K. Farmer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book clarifies some of the central issues in Japanese syntax, pointing the way to solving several long-standing problems. It prese...

• Author(s): Dana McDaniel | Helen Smith Cairns | Cecile McKee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and us...

• Author(s): Matilde Marcolli | Noam Chomsky | Robert C. Berwick • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA mathematical formalization of Chomsky's theory of Merge in generative linguistics. The Minimalis...

• Author(s): Carol Neidle | Judy Kegl | Dawn Maclaughlin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralRecent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific di...

• Author(s): Jane Grimshaw • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationArgument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics. It formulates an...

• Author(s): Howard Lasnik • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Generalwith Marcela Depiante and Arthur StepanovThis book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational gene...

• Author(s): Beth Levin | Malka Rappaport Hovav • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationBesides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically rep...

• Author(s): Norvin Richards • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA study of the interface between syntax and phonology that seeks deeper explanations for such syntactic problems as case phenomena and...

• Author(s): Guglielmo Cinque • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic...

• Author(s): Andrea Moro • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language. Can there be ...

• Author(s): Gita Martohardjono • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxExplorations of language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages. This volume examines l...

• Author(s): Neil Myler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A...

• Author(s): David W. Lightfoot • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters d...

• Author(s): Roman Jakobson | Gunnar Fant | Morris Halle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis work attempts to describes the ultimate discrete components of language, their specific structure, a...

• Author(s): Julie Anne Legate • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAn investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian) as the empirical starting point.In Vo...

• Author(s): Roger Martin | David Michaels | Juan Uriagereka • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of essays presents an up-to-date overview of research in the minimalist program of li...

• Author(s): Susumu Kuno • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JapaneseConventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use them. Man...

• Author(s): Gennaro Chierchia | Sally McConnell-Ginet • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis self-contained introduction to natural language semanticsaddresses the major theoretical questions i...

• Author(s): Luis Lopez • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationA novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects.In Indefinite Objects, Luis López pres...

• Author(s): Morris Halle | George N. Clements • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides hands-on experience with a major area of modern phonology, including phonetics; phonetic variati...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Bever | John M. Carroll | Lance A. Miller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and p...

• Author(s): Mark Aronoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationMost recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely morphological phenomena and has focused instead on...

• Author(s): Ilse Lehiste • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year gr...

• Author(s): Elise Newman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA novel theory of argument structure based on the order in which verbs and their arguments combine across a variety of languages and lang...

• Author(s): Leonard Talmy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, "targeting," underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and d...

• Author(s): Peter Gardenfors • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.I...

• Author(s): Alan Bale | Charles Reiss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyAn introduction to generative phonology using tools of basic set theory, logic, and combinatorics. This t...