Carnie Andrew - The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theoretical and empirical advances in the dynamically evolving field of syntax from a variety of perspectives, both within the dominant generative paradigm and between syntacticians working within generative grammar and those working in functionalist and related approaches.

The Handbook covers key issues within the field that include:

core areas of syntactic empirical investigation

contemporary approaches to syntactic theory

interfaces of syntax with other components of the human language system

experimental and computational approaches to syntax.

Bringing together renowned linguistic scientists and cutting-edge scholars from across the discipline and providing a balanced yet comprehensive overview of the field, The Rout-ledge Handbook of Syntax is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in syntactic theory.

Andrew Carnie is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on constituent structure, hierarchies, case, and word order. His numerous volumes include Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 3rd edition (2013), Modern Syntax: A Coursebook (2011), Constituent Structure (2010), and Irish Nouns (2008).

Yosuke Sato is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in syntax and linguistic interfaces and works on Austronesian, Japanese, and World Englishes. He publishes his research in such journals as Journal of Linguistics, Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, and Studia Linguistica.

Daniel Siddiqi is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and English at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research record includes a focus on the morphologysyntax interface especially as it relates to realizational theories, particularly Distributed Morphology. Other research interests include non-standard English morphosyntactic phenomena and morphological metatheory.

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Praise for this volume:

The Handbook brings together thoughtful and judicious essays by outstanding scholars, covering the many aspects of syntax that have been explored and developed extensively in recent years. It is sure to be of great value to a wide range of users, from students to those engaged in advanced research, as well as to others who want to gain some sense of current ideas about the nature of language. A very welcome and impressive contribution.

Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

This is an excellent book, both rich in detail and beautifully clear and accessible. The most important phenomena and theoretical issues in generative grammar are discussed in an even-handed and interesting way. I especially appreciate the sections that situate syntactic theory in its various contexts: interfaces with other structural aspects of language, relations to language change, acquisition and processing, and the rich range of theoretical approaches currently being pursued. The combination of historical perspective, theoretical and methodological breadth, and up-to-date insights makes it a must-read for graduate students, and a valuable resource for specialists.

Elizabeth Cowper, University of Toronto, Canada

This comprehensive handbook presents in an impressively clear way the current issues on the central topics of the rapidly advancing field. It is a valuable resource for researchers and is useful especially for graduate students as each chapter includes a concise introduction of a research area and illustrates the recent developments step by step, leading up to ongoing research.

Mamoru Saito, Department of Anthropology and Philosophy, Nanzan University

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Handbook of Syntax

Edited by Andrew Carnie,
Yosuke Sato, and Daniel Siddiqi

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Includes index.

1. Grammar, Comparative and generalSyntaxHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Generative grammarHandbooks, manuals, etc. I. Carnie, Andrew, 1969- editor of compilation. II. Sato, Yosuke, 1978- editor of compilation. III. Siddiqi, Daniel, editor of compilation. IV. Title: Handbook of syntax.

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PART I
Constituency, categories, and structure