The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a succes
This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of
Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various dire
This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax – that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause – relate to the local contingencies of a