Economy considerations have always played an important role in the generative theory of grammar. Indeed, the very development of the theory has been characteriz

This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together expert

This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on changes in English betw

This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis

The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its pro