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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a comprehensive view of the current issues in contemporary syntactic theory. Written by an international assembly of leading specialists in the field, these 23 original articles serve as a useful reference for various areas of grammar.
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Table of ContentsContributors.
Introduction.
Part I: Derivation Versus Representation:.
1. Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University).
2. Economy Conditions in Syntax: Chris Collins (Cornell University).
3. Derivation and Representation in Modern Transformational Syntax: Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut).
4. Relativized Minimality Effects: Luigi Rizzi (Université de Geneve).
Part II: Movement:.
5. Head Movement: Ian Roberts (University of Stuttgart).
6. Object Shift and Scrambling: Höskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland).
7. Wh-in-situ Languages: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo).
8. A-Movements: Mark Baltin (New York University).
Part III: Argument Structure and Phrase Structure:.
9. Thematic Relations in Syntax: Jeffrey S. Gruber (independent scholar).
10. Predication: John Bowers (Cornell University).
11. Case: Hiroyuki Ura.
12. Phrase Structure: Naoki Fukui (University of California).
13. The Natures of Nonconfigurationality: Mark C. Baker (McGill University).
14. What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, but not Why: Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts at Amherst).
Part IV: Functional Projections:.
15. Agreement Projections: Adriana Belletti (Universitá di Siena).
16. Sentential Negation: Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University).
17. The DP Hypothesis: Identifying Clausal Properties in the Nominal Domain: Judy B. Bernstein (Syracuse University).
18. The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters and Problems: Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste).
Part V: Interface With Interpretation:.
19. The Syntax of Scope: Anna Szabolcsi (New York University).
20. Deconstructing Binding: Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert (both Utrecht Institute of Linguistics).
21. Syntactic Reconstruction Effects: Andrew Barss (University of Arizona).
Part VI: External Evaluation of Syntax:.
22. Syntactic Change: Anthony S. Kroch (University of Pennsylvania).
23. Setting Syntactic Parameters: Janet Dean Fodor (City University of New York).
Bibliography.
Index.
