Bücher der Reihe Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.

An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.

A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.

A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression.

A version of the copy theory of movement within the Minimalist Program according to which movement is an interaction among Copy, Merge, Form Chain, and Chain Reduction.

Argument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics.

Aronoff integrates an account of morphological structure into a general theory of generative grammar.

A study of the interface between syntax and phonology that seeks deeper explanations for such syntactic problems as case phenomena and the distribution of overt and covert wh-movement.

An exploration of the architecture of the grammar, where conditions apply, and the nature of the lexical/functional split.

Investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the framework of generative grammar. Diesing also considers the problem of deriving logical representations from syntactic representations of sentences.

This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax.