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This volume provides a comprehensive view of the current issues in contemporary syntactic theory. Written by an international assembly of leading specialists in the field, these 2 original articles serve as a useful reference for various areas of grammar.

Contains 23 articles written by an international assembly of specialists in the field.
The lucidly written articles grant accessibility to crucial areas of syntactic theory.
Contrasting theories are represented.
Contains an informative introduction and extensive bibliography which serves as a reference tool for both students and professional linguists.

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• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Derivation Versus Representation
• 1 Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition
• 2 Economy Conditions in Syntax
• 3 Derivation and Representation in Modern Transformational Syntax
• 4 Relativized Minimality Effects
• Part II
• 5 Head Movement
• 6 Object Shift and Scrambling
• 7 Wh-in-situ Languages
• 8 A-Movements
• Part III Argument Structure and Phrase Structure
• 9 Thematic Relations in Syntax
• 10 Predication
• 11 Case
• 12 Phrase Structure
• 13 The Natures of Nonconfigurationality
• 14 What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, but not Why
• Part IV
• 15 Agreement Projections
• 16 Sentential Negation
• 17 The DP Hypothesis: Identifying Clausal Properties in the Nominal Domain
• 18 The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters and Problems
• Part V
• 19 The Syntax of Scope
• 20 Deconstructing Binding
• 21 Syntactic Reconstruction Effects
• Part VI External Evaluation of Syntax
• 22 Syntactic Change
• 23 Setting Syntactic Parameters
• Bibliography
• Index

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Since Chomsky's groundbreaking work in the 1960s, research on syntax has concentrated on demonstrating how restrictive syntactic structures (the systems responsible for construction of sentences) are in comparison to what they could be. Current emphasis in syntactic analysis is on the various constraints that operate, and the essays in this collection (bearing such titles as "Object Shift and Scrambling" and "Sentential and Constituent Negation") deal with such constraints. Although the editors claim they are addressing researchers and students, the articles are in fact accessible only to advanced postgraduate students and other professional linguists. Linguists unfortunately write primarily to themselves and to one another, and they are addicted to jargon. There are important contributions here, but readers will have difficulty sorting out major from minor points in articles that are often prolix and rambling: few of the findings are likely to filter down to even a highly educated public. The collection is up-to-date only insofar as it represents the "school of Chomsky," who is still uncritically revered 40 years after his 1962 article. Departures from Chomsky's approach do not do more than acknowledge different schools of thought within that tradition. For professionals only. J. B. Beston; formerly, Nazareth College of Rochester

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Mark Baltin is Professor of Linguistics at New York University where he has been teaching since receiving his Ph.D. from MIT in 1978. He has published widely on movement and ellipsis, and served on the NSF Advisory Panel for Linguistics from 1996 to 1999. He is the editor, with Anthony S. Kroch, of Alternative Conceptions of Phrase-Structure (1989).

Chris Collins served in the Peace Corps before enrolling in MIT's graduate program in linguistics. He is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University and has published widely in the syntax of various African languages and general syntactic theory. He is the author of Local Economy (1997).