Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of grammatical structures in natural languages. It is essential reading for researchers and students in linguistics.
Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of the structure of building blocks in natural language. Divided into four thematic parts, it covers the various theoretical and methodological approaches to syntactic variation; explores dependency relations and dependency marking; shows how the building blocks of syntax both vary and display universal properties across languages, and explores the interfaces between syntax and other aspects of language structure. It also includes examples from a typologically broad range of languages, as well as data from child language, sign language, language processing, and diachronic syntax, giving a clear picture of the ubiquity of cross-linguistic variation. It serves as a source of inspiration for future research, and forges a deeper understanding of the variant and invariant parts of language, making it essential reading for researchers and students in linguistics.
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Bringing together a global team of scholars, this book provides a full overview of the state-of-the-art in comparative formal syntax.
1. The comparative syntactic enterprise: an introduction Sjef Barbiers,
Norbert Corver and Maria Polinsky; Part I. Comparative Syntax: Theory,
Methodology and Data Collection:
2. Theoretical approaches to comparative
syntax Sjef Barbiers, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd and Jenneke van der Wal;
3.
Databases for comparative syntactic research Jessica K. Ivani and Balthasar
Bickel;
4. Quantitative approaches to syntactic variation Jeroen van
Craenenbroeck and Marjo van Koppen;
5. Computational approaches to syntactic
variation Tim Hunter and Robert Frank;
6. Comparative syntax from formal and
functional perspectives Polina Pleshak and Maria Polinsky;
7.
Micro-comparative syntax, dialectology, and sociolinguistics Sjef Barbiers;
8. Change: Comparative syntax and diachrony Adam Ledgeway;
9. Universal and
language-specific properties of language: a view from language acquisition
Maria Teresa Guasti and Elena Pagliarini; Part II. Comparative Syntax:
Building Blocks and Combinatorial Properties:
10. Words and features Paula
Fenger and Maria Kouneli;
11. Pronouns: Structure, binding, and
classification Elizabeth Ritter and Martina Wiltschko;
12. Functional
architecture of nominal phrases Artemis Alexiadou;
13. Functional
architecture of adjectival phrases Norbert Corver;
14. Functional
architecture of prepositional phrases Marcel den Dikken and Éva Dékįny;
15.
Analyzing tenselessness Hamida Demirdache and Hongyuan Sun;
16. Voice Jim
Wood and Matthew Tyler;
17. Coordination Jan-Wouter Zwart;
18. Clause types
Raffaella Zanuttini, Paul Portner and Miok Pak; Part III. Comparative Syntax:
Dependency Relations and Dependency Marking:
19. Agreement and concord Emily
Clem and Mark Norris;
20. Head dependencies Ian Roberts;
21. A-dependencies
Suzanna Fong and Claire Halpert;
22. Anaphoric dependencies Martin Everaert
and Eric Reuland;
23. The comparative syntax of nominal quantifier Peter
Jenks;
24. -dependencies and successive cyclic movement Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng;
25. From interrogatives to relatives: a comprehensive account of
wh-constructions Radek Simik; Part IV. Comparative Syntax: Interfaces:
26.
Syntax semantics Klaus Abels and Veneeta Dayal;
27. Comparative syntax,
morphology, and 'externalization' (What happens at PF?) David Embick;
28.
Syntax and externalization: Linearization Ad Neeleman;
29. Cross-modal
comparative syntax Roland Pfau and Josep Quer;
30. Syntax and information
structure Fatima Hamlaoui and Kriszta Szendroi;
31. Syntactic dependency
formation in sentence processing: a comparative perspective Brian Dillon and
Maayan Keshev.
Sjef Barbiers is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Leiden University. He was the leader of the Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects and European Dialect Syntax projects. He is currently the Scientific Director of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Norbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Utrecht University. He is co-editor of several books, including Semi-lexical Categories (with van Riemsdijk, 2001, De Gruyter Mouton) and Diagnosing Syntax (with Cheng, 2013, OUP) He is currently the scientific director of Utrecht University Institute for Language Sciences. Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland and Director of the National Heritage Research Center at UCLA. She has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals and advisory boards of several international centres. She is the author of multiple scholarly articles and several books, and editor of several handbooks.
