Bücher der Reihe Linguistic Inquiry Monographs

It is standardly assumed that Universal Grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. This book proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. According to this theory, phrase structure always completely determines linear order, so that if two phrases differ in linear order, they must also differ in hierarchical structure.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.

A theory of control, equally grounded in syntax and semantics, that argues that obligatory control is achieved either through predication or through logophoric anchoring.

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

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.

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

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.