The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

Cartography is a research program within the Principles & Parameters framework of
syntactic theory. Its project is to draw detailed maps of syntactic configurations but its place …

This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of
Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We discuss some of the …

This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the
comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order …

A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical
investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion. In this book, Omer Preminger investigates …

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations
from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative …

This paper attempts to articulate the essential nature of the notion 'root'in the morphosyntax.
Adopting a realizational (Late Insertion) view of the morphosyntactic model, the question of …

A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating
and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program …

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a
number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the …

An investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-
Polynesian) as the empirical starting point. In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates …