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

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various dire

First Published in 1999. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is essentially a response to a minimalist question: how perfect is language? There

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It is standardly assumed that Universal Grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. This book prop