This book examines how word order variations in language can be regulated by various factors in cyclic syntax. In particular, it offers a valuable contribution

An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties. In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejec

What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provid

The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research program

Forty-one papers from the 1991 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics are included. The papers deal with diverse topics ranging from the traditional lingui