This Bloomsbury Companion is the most wide-ranging, state-of-the-art resource to a key area of contemporary linguistics. It covers fundamental issues, concepts, movements and approaches within the most relevant theoretical perspectives on syntax, encompassing the relationship between syntax and other levels of grammar. This book is a major tool for understanding syntax and its essential assumptions in the broader framework of current linguistic research.
It is the most complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working in syntax and neighboring fields. In addition, this companion offers a comprehensive reference resource, giving an overview of key terms and topics in syntax, research areas and new directions. With its section on methodology, it features a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. It provides a review of current research as well as practical guidance for advanced study in the area.
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Table of Contents
Contributors Introduction Part 1. Research Methods in Syntax 1.1. Hypothesis formation William Croft 1.2. Hypothesis testing in the Minimalist Program Marc Baker 1.3. Field methods in syntactic research Marianne Mithun 1.4. Corpus methods Maria Freddi Part 2. Current Issues and Research in Syntax 2.1. Constituents Marja-Liisa Helasvuo 2.2. X-bar structure and Minimalism Jairo Nunes 2.3. The structure of NPs Giuseppe Longobardi and Giuseppina Silvestri 2.4. Word order Pamela Munro 2.5. Scrambling Francisco Ordoñez 2.6. On V2 types Cecilia Poletto 2.7. Clitics Silvia Luraghi 2.8. Changing the subject: Shifting notions about subjecthood in Generative Grammar Tim Stowell 2.9. Alignment and grammatical relations Doris Payne 2.10. Passives and antipassives Edward Keenan 2.11. Middles and reflexives Leonid Kulikov 2.12. Causatives: Structure, type and distribution Jae Jung Song 2.13. Coordination Caterina Mauri 2.14. Wh-movement Luis Lopez 2.15. Complementation Claudia Parodi and Carlos Quicoli 2.16. Adverbial subordination Holger Diessel 2.17. Negation Liliane Haegeman and Terje Lohndal 2.18. Syntactic change Thorhallur Eythorsson 2.19. Acquisition of syntax Maria Teresa Guasti Part 3. New Directions in Syntactic Research 3.1. Usage and syntax Paul Hopper 3.2. Construction Grammar and the syntax/semantics interface Laura Michaelis 3.3. Topic, Focus and the cartography of the left periphery Luigi Rizzi 3.4. Optimality Theory as a possible framework for the Minimalism Program Vieri Samek-Lodovici Appendix: Resources in syntax Maria Freddi and Silvia Luraghi Glossary Bibliography