Syntax Books

New and Published Books

1. Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (Routledge Revivals)

   By Noam Chomsky

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Routledge Revivals presents a reissue of Noam Chomksy’s MA thesis, written in 1951, and first published in 1979. Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew is a landmark study in linguistics and generative phonology, which provides not only an analysis of morphophonemics but of the entire grammar of Modern...

   Published October 29th 2011 by Routledge
2. Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement

   By Cedric Boeckx

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory. The essays collected here show how and why agreement has emerged in recent years as the central theoretical construct in minimalism....

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Dislocated Elements in Discourse

   Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives

   Edited by Benjamin Shaer, Philippa Cook, Werner Frey, Claudia Maienborn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

   This volume is about 'dislocation' – the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. Dislocation encompasses a wide range of linguistic phenomena, related to nominal and adverbial expressions and to the information structuring notions of topic and...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology

   By Edwin Williams

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to...

   Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. How to Teach a Foreign Language

   By Otto Jespersen

   This book was first published in 1904....

   Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Philosophy of Grammar

   By Otto Jespersen

   This book was first published in 1924....

   Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
7. Between Syntax and Semantics

   By C.T. James Huang

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events....

   Published October 4th 2009 by Routledge
8. Structures and Strategies

   By Adriana Belletti

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax and the syntax of verb-related phenomena of agreement and...

   Published December 8th 2008 by Routledge
9. A Unification of Morphology and Syntax

   Investigations into Romance and Albanian Dialects

   By M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland. The empirical base used in the book includes a wealth of previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romansch...

   Published November 20th 2006 by Routledge
10. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

    Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1954....

    Published October 15th 2006 by Routledge