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 new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest
research. It now includes' big picture'questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as …

While the notion of" subject" as a primitive of grammar is in some way encoded in mast
modern syntactic theories, the c!. uster of syntactic properties attributed to subjects is not a …

In this article, I address the issue of head movement in current linguistic theory. I propose a
new view of the nature of heads and head movement that reveals that head movement is …

This textbook--an abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax and the Syntax of English--
provides a concise and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the …

The article examines the structure of resultative participles in English: participles that denote
a state resulting from a prior event, such as The cake is flattened or The metal is hammered …

This monograph investigates the nature, properties, and consequences of the grammatical
constraints that yield overt marking of objects in a variety of languages. The author, working …

The article proposes a new theory of successive-cyclic movement that reconciles the early
and the current minimalist approaches to it. As in the early approach, there is no feature …

Elided VPs and their antecedent VPs can mismatch in voice, with passive VPs being elided
under apparent identity with active antecedent VPs, and vice versa. Such voice mismatches …

First Published in 1999. Code switching is widely used in bilingual communities worldwide,
and has been found in government documents, literature, religious works, and song …