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Description: 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.

Review: "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

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



Author 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.