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  • Syntactic Islands

    by Cedric Boeckx ...
    Series series Key Topics in Syntax
    The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist? Cedric Boeckx discusses the pros and cons of all the major generative accounts of island effects, and focuses the discussion ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Aspects of the Syntax of Agreement

    by Cedric Boeckx ...
    Series series Routledge Leading Linguists
    This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory. The essays collected here show how and why agreement has emerged in recent years as the central theoretical construct in minimalism. Although the theoretical context of the volume is minimalist in character, Boeckx formulates formal and ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Elementary Syntactic Structures

    Prospects of a Feature-Free Syntax

    by Cedric Boeckx ...
    Series Book 144 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Most syntacticians, no matter their theoretical persuasion, agree that features (types or categories) are the most important units of analysis. Within Chomskyan generative grammar, the importance of features has grown steadily and within minimalism, it can be said that everything depends on features. They are obstacles in any interdisciplinary investigation concerning the nature of language and it ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Control as Movement

    by Cedric Boeckx, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes ...
    Series Book 126 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control structures is a theta ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Advances in Biolinguistics

    The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis

    Edited by Koji Fujita, Cedric Boeckx ...
    Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution

    Edited by Limor Raviv, Cedric Boeckx ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides a detailed account of the many methodological tools and approaches used in the field of language evolution. The field has seen a rapid growth over the last decade, with a greater focus on empirical data and interdisciplinary syntheses. This volume aims to make sense of these recent developments, to provide a clear map of the current research landscape, and to showcase some ... Read more

    $148.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics

    Edited by Cedric Boeckx, Kleanthes K. Grohmann ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Biolinguistics involves the study of language from a broad perspective that embraces natural sciences, helping us better to understand the fundamentals of the faculty of language. This Handbook offers the most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Biolinguistic Enterprise

    New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty

    Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Cedric Boeckx ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics
    This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new developments in theoretical linguistics, and insights on the relations between variation in language and variation in biology. The authors address the Darwinian questions on the origin and evolution of language from a minimalist ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory

    by Dominique Sportiche, Hilda Koopman, Edward P. Stabler ...
    An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages.Includes numerous pedagogical features such as 'practice' boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitate understanding of both the 'hows' and the 'whys' of sentence structureGuides ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • The Modular Architecture of Grammar

    by Jerrold M. Sadock ...
    Series Book 132 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Modular grammar postulates several autonomous generative systems interacting with one another as opposed to the prevailing theory of transformational grammar where there is a single generative component – the syntax – from which other representations are derived. In this book Jerrold Sadock develops his influential theory of grammar, formalizing several generative modules that independently ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • How We Learn

    Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    **“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAn illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Topics in French Syntax

    by Geraldine Legendre ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    The main goal of this study, first published in 1994, is to present a substantial part of the grammar of French. This goal is achieved by bringing together two aspects of syntactic investigation. First, the study focuses on a vast range of French clausal phenomena, including Object Raising constructions, Causative constructions of various types, Impersonal constructions, amongst many others. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD