Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior
knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to …

Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-
negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means …

Of the 24 mathematically possible orders of the four elements demonstrative, numeral,
adjective, and noun, only 14 appear to be attested in the languages of the world. Some of …

This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of
Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on …

This collection of recent essays (arranged in order of composition) has running strongly
through it both comparative syntax, which uses differences between languages as a new …

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 …

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is
fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical …

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of
locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central …

I propose a phrasal-movement analysis of word order in Hebrew and Arabic noun phrases. I
argue that the positioning of nominal modifiers with respect to the head of simple nouns …