Comparative Grammar Critical Concepts in Linguistics Book

VOLUME ONE: EARLY WORK (PRE-1980)

Introduction

1. J. Greenberg (1963) ‘Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements’, in J. Greenberg (ed.), Universals of Language (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 58–90)

2. J. Hawkins (1980) ‘On implicational and distributional universals of word order’, Journal of Linguistics 16: 193–235

3. R. Kayne (1975) ‘Clitic placement in the faire-infinitive construction’, in French Syntax (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 269–342)

4. L. Rizzi (1982) ‘A restructuring rule’, in Issues in Italian Syntax (Dordrecht: Foris), pp. 1–48

5. H. den Besten (1977) ‘On the interaction of root transformations and lexical deletive rules’, in W. Abraham (ed.), On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania (Amsterdam: John Benjamins), pp. 47–132

6. L. Rizzi (1982) ‘Violations of the Wh island constraint and the subjacency condition’, in Issues in Italian Syntax (Dordrecht: Foris), pp. 49–76

7. D. Perlmutter and P. Postal (1983) ‘Towards a universal characterization of passivization’, in D. Perlmutter (ed.), Studies in Relational Grammar 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 3–29

VOLUME TWO: THE NULL-SUBJECT PARAMETER

Introduction

8. L. Rizzi (1982), ‘Negation, Wh-Movement and the Null Subject Parameter’, in Issues in Italian Syntax (Dordrecht: Foris), pp. 117–85

9. J. McCloskey and K. Hale (1984) ‘On the syntax of person-number inflection in modern Irish’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1: 487–553

10. C.-T. J. Huang (1984) ‘On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns’, Linguistic Inquiry 15: 531–74

11. C. Platzack (1987) ‘The Scandinavian languages and the null-subject parameter’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 5: 377–403

12. L. Vanelli, L. Renzi, and P. Benincà (1986) ‘Tipologia dei pronomi soggetto nelle lingue romanze medievali’, trans. Ian Roberts, Quaderni Patavini di Linguistica 5: 49–66 (reprinted in P. Benincà, La variazione sintattica (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1994), pp. 195–213)

13. L. Rizzi (1986) ‘Null objects in Italian and the theory of pro’, Linguistic Inquiry 17: 501–57

14. O. Jaeggli and K. Safir (1989) ‘Introduction’, in The Null Subject Parameter (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 1–44

15. A. Alexiadou and E. Anagnostopoulou (1998) ‘Parametrizing AGR: word order, V-movement and EPP-checking’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16: 491–539

VOLUME THREE: HEAD-COMPLEMENT ORDER

Introduction

16. M. Dryer (1992) ‘The Greenbergian word order correlations’, Language 68: 81–138

17. H. Koopman (1984) ‘Verbs, lexical properties of verbs and INFL’, in Verb Movement and Universal Grammar (Dordrecht: Foris), pp. 41–103

18. H. Koopman (1984) ‘Towards a minimal base component’, in Verb Movement and Universal Grammar (Dordrecht: Foris), pp. 105–35

19. L. Travis (1984) ‘Word order in Germanic languages’, in Parameters and Effects of Word Order Variation (PhD Dissertation, MIT), pp. 108–58

20. Y.-H. A. Li (1990) ‘Single complementation’, in Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 41–66

21. Y.-H. A. Li (1990) ‘Multiple complementation’, in Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 67–116

22. R. Kayne (1994) ‘Introduction and proposal’, in The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 3–6

23. R. Kayne (1994) ‘Deriving X-bar theory’, in The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 7–12

24. R. Kayne (1994) ‘Adjunction’, in The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 15–32

25. R. Kayne (1994) ‘Word order’, in The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 33–46

26. R. Kayne (1994) ‘Further consequences’, in The Antisymmetry of Syntax (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 46–54

27. J.-W. Zwart (1997) ‘Dutch as an SVO language’, in Morphosyntax of Verb Movement: A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 81–105

28. J.-W. Zwart (1997) ‘The position of the functional heads in Dutch’, in Morphosyntax of Verb Movement: A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 107–54

29. M. Saito and N. Fukui (1998) ‘Order in phrase structure and movement’, Linguistic Inquiry 29: 439–74

VOLUME FOUR: WH-MOVEMENT

Introduction

30. E. Bach (1971) ‘Questions’, Linguistic Inquiry 2: 153–66

31. C-T. J. Huang (1981) ‘Move WH in a language without WH Movement’, The Linguistic Review 1: 369–416

32. J. Aoun and Y.-H. A. Li (1993) ‘Wh-elements in situ: syntax or LF?’, Linguistic Inquiry 24: 199–238

33. L. Cheng (1991) ‘Wh-movement and clausal typing’, in On the Typology of WH Questions (PhD Dissertation, MIT), pp. 18–51

34. L. Cheng (1991) ‘Optional and multiple fronting of Wh-words’, in On the Typology of WH Questions (PhD Dissertation, MIT), pp. 52–111

35. C. Rudin (1988) ‘On multiple questions and multiple WH fronting’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 6: 445–502

36. D. MacDaniel (1989) ‘Partial and multiple wh-movement’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 7: 565–605

37. J. Sabel (2000) ‘Partial Wh-Movement and the typology of Wh-questions’, in U. Lutz, G. Müller and A. von Stechow (eds.), Wh-Scope Marking (Amsterdam: John Benjamins), pp. 409–46

38. A. Mahajan (2000) ‘Towards a unified treatment of Wh-expletives in Hindi and German’, in U. Lutz, G. Müller and A. von Stechow (eds.), Wh-Scope Marking (Amsterdam: John Benjamins), pp. 317–32

39. Ž. Boškovic (2002) ‘On multiple Wh-fronting’, Linguistic Inquiry 33: 351–85

40. A. Rackowski and N. Richards (2005) ‘Phase Edge and Extraction: A Tagalog Case Study’, Linguistic Inquiry 36: 565–99

VOLUME 5: VERB MOVEMENT

Introduction

5.1. V-to-I Movement

41. J. Emonds (1978) ‘The verbal complex V-V’ in French’, Linguistic Inquiry 9: 151–75

42. J.-Y Pollock (1989) ‘Verb movement, universal grammar and the structure of IP’ Linguistic Inquiry 20: 365–424

43. N. Chomsky (1991) ‘Some notes on economy of derivation and representation’, in R. Friedin Freiden (ed.), Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar (MIT Press, 1991), pp. 417–54

5.2. Verb Second

44. J.-W Zwart (1997) ‘The verb movement asymmetry in Dutch’, in Morphosyntax of Verb Movement: A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 191–244

45. J.-W Zwart (1997) ‘The verb movement asymmetry in Dutch’ ‘Inversion in Dutch’, in Morphosyntax of Verb Movement: A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 245–83

46. S. Vikner and B. Schwartz (1996) ‘The verb always leaves IP in V2 clauses’, in A. Belletti and L. Rizzi (eds.), Parameters and Functional Heads (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 11–62

47. G. Müller (2004) ‘Verb-Second as vP-First’, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 7: 179–234

5.3. VSO languages

48. H. Koopman and D. Sportiche (1991) ‘On the position of subjects’, in J. McCloskey (ed.), The Syntax of Verb-initial Languages (Lingua 85, special edition), pp. 211–58

49. J. McCloskey (1996) ‘On the scope of verb movement in Irish’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 14: 47–104

50. D. Massam (2000) ‘VSO and VOS: aspects of Niuean word order’, in A. Carnie and E. Guilfoyle (eds.), The Syntax of Verb-initial Languages (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 97–116

VOLUME SIX: FURTHER ISSUES

Introduction

6.1 Further Kinds of Syntactic Variation

51. M. Baker (1994) ‘Introduction: of parameters and polysynthesis’, in The Polysynthesis Parameter (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 3–40

52. M. Baker (1988) ‘Noun incorporation’, in Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 76–147

6.2 First-language Acquisition and Syntactic Variation

53. N. Hyams (1986) ‘The AG/PRO parameter in early grammars’, in Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters (Dordrecht: Kluwer), pp. 63–109

54. D. Poeppel and K. Wexler (1993) ‘The full competence hypothesis of clause structure in early German’, Language 69: 365–424

55. L. Rizzi (1993/4) ‘Some notes on linguistic theory and language development: the case of root infinitives’, Language Acquisition 3: 371–93

6.3 Diachronic Syntax

56. A. Battye and I. Roberts (1995) ‘Introduction’, Clause Structure and Language Change (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. ???–???

57. A. Kroch (1989) ‘Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change’, Language Variation and Change 1: 199–244