Evidence of children's sensitivity to statistical features of their input in language acquisition is
often used to argue against learning mechanisms driven by innate knowledge. At the same …

Traditionally, acquisition of syntactic knowledge and the development of sentence
comprehension behaviors have been treated as separate disciplines. This article reviews a …

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides …

At earlier stages of the theory of government and binding (Chomsky 1981), the binding
theory was also believed to govern certain aspects of the restrictions on movement, most …

One tradition, going back as far as Chomsky 1955 and developed in works by Bach (1979),
Dowty (1978, 1982), Bowers (1983a), Jacobson (1983), and Larson (1988), holds that the …

Offers an explanation for a long-standing question in the typological distinction among
languages with respect to formation of interrogatives which use questions words such as" …

This thesis studies movement operations in natural languages. It is observed that certain
heads—C, v, and, in most languages, P—cannot be stranded; the complements of these …

Understanding Minimalism, first published in 2005, is an introduction to the Minimalist
Program-the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it …

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 …

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 …