Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how
languages change. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the …

The syntactic structure of prepositional phrases is quite rich, as has been demonstrated in
numerous recent detailed studies of individual languages. In this chapter I present an …

The central issue of Newmeyer's new book is at the very core of language typological
research: how are similarities and differences among languages to be described and how …

Children acquire a mature language system and sometimes this system differs from that of
their parents. This is a significant part of language change and understanding acquisition is …

The goal of this book is to explore the diachronic development of subject-verb agreement,
focusing on the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as inflectional formatives. It is shown that …

Mandarin Chinese has become indispensable for crosslinguistic comparison and syntactic
theorizing. It is nevertheless still difficult to obtain comprehensive answers to research …

In addition to its theoretical impact, the development of molecular biology has brought about
the possibility of extraordinary historical progress in the study of phylogenetic classification …

The possibility of expressing negation is a very basic property of human language. All
natural languages possess it. However, there is a certain amount of variation in the linguistic …

This paper presents an analysis of the restriction in standard Indonesian that only subjects
are allowed to undergo A'-extraction. The specific proposal, grounded in the theory of …