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

This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis - and explains their plac

To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the ca

Syntactic theory is central to the study of language. This innovative book introduces the ideas which underlie most approaches to syntax and shows how they have

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