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Routledge Leading Linguists


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The books in this series, Routledge Leading Linguists, draw together some of the seminal essays from the most important linguists of the last decades. Each book covers one scholar, making the best of his or her work readily accessible and available in one place for the first time.

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Theory and Experiment in Syntax

Theory and Experiment in Syntax

1st Edition

By Grant Goodall
January 29, 2024

This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall’s previous publications and new work exploring how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them. The volume sheds light on ...

Structures, Syntactic Computations and Acquisition

Structures, Syntactic Computations and Acquisition

1st Edition

By Adriana Belletti
September 29, 2023

This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti published over the last ten years or so, offering readers a useful tool to see the mutual enrichment between linguistic theory and experimental studies on (modes of) language acquisition through her work. The volume ...

A Minimalist Theory of Simplest Merge

A Minimalist Theory of Simplest Merge

1st Edition

By Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, T. Daniel Seely
May 31, 2023

This collection explicates one of the core ideas underpinning Minimalist theory – explanation via simplification – and its role in shaping some of the latest developments within this framework, specifically the simplest Merge hypothesis and the reduction of syntactic phenomena to third factor ...

Merge in the Mind-Brain Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language

Merge in the Mind-Brain: Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language

1st Edition

By Naoki Fukui
July 16, 2019

This collection of nine papers brings together Naoki Fukui’s pioneering body of work on Merge, the basic operation of human language syntax, from the two distinct but related perspectives of theoretical syntax and neurosciences. Part I presents an overview of the development of the theory of Merge ...

Diachronic and Comparative Syntax

Diachronic and Comparative Syntax

1st Edition

By Ian Roberts
August 21, 2018

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts’ pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume. Divided into two parts, the volume engages in recent key topics in empirical ...

Biolinguistic Investigations and the Formal Language Hierarchy

Biolinguistic Investigations and the Formal Language Hierarchy

1st Edition

Edited By Juan Uriagereka
June 08, 2018

This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in recent years in one comprehensive volume. The book’s introduction lays the foundation for the field of biolinguistics, which looks to integrate concepts from the natural sciences in the...

Explorations in Maximizing Syntactic Minimization

Explorations in Maximizing Syntactic Minimization

1st Edition

By Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, T. Daniel Seely
February 12, 2018

This volume presents a series of papers written by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, each of which explores fundamental linguistic questions and analytical mechanisms proposed in recent minimalist work, specifically concerning recent analyses by Noam Chomsky. The collection includes eight papers by...

Primitive Elements of Grammatical Theory Papers by Jean-Roger Vergnaud and His Collaborators

Primitive Elements of Grammatical Theory: Papers by Jean-Roger Vergnaud and His Collaborators

1st Edition

Edited By Katherine McKinney-Bock, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
February 05, 2018

This book is a compilation of manuscripts and publications from 2001-2010 by Jean-Roger Vergnaud, in collaboration with colleagues and students. This work is guided by the scientific belief that broader mathematical principles should guide linguistic inquiry, as they guide classical biology and ...

Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Hierarchies The Work of Eloise Jelinek in Context

Pronouns, Presuppositions, and Hierarchies: The Work of Eloise Jelinek in Context

1st Edition

Edited By Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley
February 05, 2018

Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic theory, information structure, and several Native American languages (including Lummi, Yaqui, and Navajo). She was one of the very first generative linguists who brought the theoretical implications of the properties of typologically ...

Aspects of Grammatical Architecture

Aspects of Grammatical Architecture

1st Edition

By Alain Rouveret
January 31, 2018

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective. The phenomena that are brought to bear on the architectural issue come from a range of languages, among them French, ...

Formal Grammar Theory and Variation across English and Norwegian

Formal Grammar: Theory and Variation across English and Norwegian

1st Edition

By Terje Lohndal
October 12, 2017

This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach. The book begins by outlining the development of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the work of Noam Chomsky, and moves ...

Typological Studies Word Order and Relative Clauses

Typological Studies: Word Order and Relative Clauses

1st Edition

By Guglielmo Cinque
June 08, 2015

In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general ...

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