This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental
to every language. Looking at how different theories of syntax have accounted for the …

It is a general assumption in linguistic theory that the categories of tense, aspect, and mood
(TAM) are inflectional categories of verbal classes only. In a number of languages around …

This dissertation presents a crosslinguistic study of the temporal semantics of noun phrases.
Through an investigation of languages with “nominal temporality markers”, ie markers that …

This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the
Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and …

It is commonly accepted that the process of pidginization leads to a loss of inflectional
morphology, but this loss is often not total. Lexifier inflections instead follow a cline of …

This book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of
Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Northern Australia. It sets forth arguments for …

Australian languages have had a significant impact on the theoretical and typological stage
over the last 50 years, particularly in the areas of nonconfigurationality and phrase structure …

Phi-features present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists, and semanticists to
collaborate on a research enterprise in which all have an equal stake and which all …

The study of the comparative is a particularly interesting area of linguistic research, precisely
because of the universality of the act. Comparison is a basic linguistic task which we expect …