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On Linearization

On Linearization

On Linearization

Toward a Restrictive Theory

by Guglielmo Cinque

ISBN: 9780262544955

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 7, 2023

The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.
Structure

Structure

Structure

Concepts, Consequences, Interactions

by Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka

ISBN: 9780262544542

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 13, 2022

Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters.
Syntax in the Treetops

Syntax in the Treetops

Syntax in the Treetops

by Shigeru Miyagawa

ISBN: 9780262543491

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 3, 2022

A proposal that syntax extends to the domain of discourse in making core syntax link to the conversational context.
A Selectional Theory of Adjunct Control

A Selectional Theory of Adjunct Control

A Selectional Theory of Adjunct Control

by Idan Landau

ISBN: 9780262542852

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 19, 2021

A novel, systematic theory of adjunct control, explaining how and why adjuncts shift between obligatory and nonobligatory control.
Language in Development

Language in Development

Language in Development

A Crosslinguistic Perspective

Edited by Gita Martohardjono and Suzanne Flynn

ISBN: 9780262542005

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 17, 2021

Explorations of language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages.
Merge

Merge

Merge

Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax

by Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-Yuksek

ISBN: 9780262539869

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 2, 2021

An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects.
Type-Logical Syntax

Type-Logical Syntax

Type-Logical Syntax

by Yusuke Kubota and Robert D. Levine

ISBN: 9780262539746

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 15, 2020

A novel logic-based framework for representing the syntax–semantics interface of natural language, applicable to a range of phenomena.
Probes and Their Horizons

Probes and Their Horizons

Probes and Their Horizons

by Stefan Keine

ISBN: 9780262538275

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 25, 2020

A comprehensive theory of selective opacity effects—configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others—within a Minimalist framework.
Cardinals

Cardinals

Cardinals

The Syntax and Semantics of Cardinal-Containing Expressions

by Tania Ionin and Ora Matushansky

ISBN: 9780262535786

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 11, 2018

An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition.
Situations and Syntactic Structures

Situations and Syntactic Structures

Situations and Syntactic Structures

Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English

by Gillian Catriona Ramchand

ISBN: 9780262535038

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 24, 2018

A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English auxiliary system as its empirical ground.
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