This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some o

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, br

In this collection of essays, the author addresses the central issues in syntax theory, comparative syntax and the theoretically conscious study of language acq

Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its re

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic