Annotated Syntax Reader

Richard S. Kayne is Silver Professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax, and author of French Syntax (1975), Connectedness and Binary Branching (1984), The Antisymmetry of Syntax (1994), Parameters and Universals (2000), Movement and Silence (2005), and Comparisons and Contrasts (2010). Raffaella Zanuttini is Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. She is the author of Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Languages (1997). Thomas Leu is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

"This collection of papers constitutes another volume in Wiley-Blackwell's important series Linguistics: The essential readings." (Language, 1 September 2014)

• Acknowledgments viiiIntroduction 11 On So-Called “Pronouns” in English, 1966 12Paul Postal2 On Complementizers: Toward a Syntactic Theory of Complement Types, 1970 26Joan W. Bresnan3 Remarks on Nominalization, 1970 42Noam Chomsky4 Conditions on Transformations, 1973 58Noam Chomsky5 On Grammatical Relations and Clause Structure in Verb-Initial Languages, 1977 74Stephen R. Anderson and Sandra Chung6 On Wh-Movement, 1977 86Noam Chomsky7 Why Subject Sentences Don’t Exist, 1978 108Jan Koster8 Violations of the Wh Island Constraint in Italian and the Subjacency Condition, 1980 121Luigi Rizzi9 On Certain Differences between French and English, 1981 136Richard S. Kayne10 Move WH in a Language without WH Movement, 1982 151C. T. James Huang11 Negation, Wh-Movement, and the Null Subject Parameter, 1982 169Luigi Rizzi12 The Mirror Principle and Morphosyntactic Explanation, 1985 187Mark Baker13 On the Double Object Construction, 1988 203Richard K. Larson14 Facets of Romance Past Participle Agreement, 1989 220Richard S. Kayne15 Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP, 1989 233Jean-Yves Pollock16 Parameters of Phrase Structure, 1989 247Lisa Travis17 Negative Heads and the Neg Criterion, 1991 262Liliane Haegeman and Raffaella Zanuttini18 Romance Clitics, Verb Movement, and PRO, 1991 277Richard S. Kayne19 The Position of Subjects, 1991 294Hilda Koopman and Dominique Sportiche20 On Argument Structure and the Lexical Expression of Syntactic Relations, 1993 312Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser21 Reference and Proper Names: A Theory of N-Movement in Syntax and Logical Form, 1994 328Giuseppe Longobardi22 The Noun Phrase, 1994 347Anna Szabolcsi23 Distributivity and Negation. The Syntax of Each and Every, 1997 364Filippo Beghelli and Tim Stowell24 The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery, 1997 379Luigi Rizzi25 The Typology of Structural Deficiency: A Case Study of the Three Classes of Pronouns, 1999 400Anna Cardinaletti and Michal Starke26 Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP, 1999 413Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and Rint Sybesma27 Remarks on Holmberg’s Generalization, 1999 430Anders Holmberg28 Movement and Control, 1999 448Norbert Hornstein29 VSO and VOS: Aspects of Niuean Word Order, 2000 463Diane Massam30 Derivation by Phase, 2001 482Noam Chomsky31 IP-Internal Topic and Focus Phrases, 2001 497K. A. Jayaseelan32 The Configurational Structure of a Nonconfigurational Language, 2001 515Julie Anne Legate33 Antisymmetry and Japanese, 2003 533Richard S. Kayne34 “Restructuring” and Functional Structure, 2004 551Guglielmo Cinque35 Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20 and Its Exceptions, 2005 569Guglielmo CinqueIndex 583