The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of function

The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of function

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about t

This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universa

In this book, Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat diff