Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax

Silvia Luraghi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pavia, Italy.Claudia Parodi is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at UCLA, USA.

A good complementary volume to the Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography … I recommend it to anyone who studies or teaches the syntax of any language.

• Contributors IntroductionPart 1. Research Methods in Syntax 1.1. Hypothesis formation William Croft 1.2. Hypothesis testing in the Minimalist Program Marc Baker 1.3. Field methods in syntactic research Marianne Mithun 1.4. Corpus methods Maria Freddi Part 2. Current Issues and Research in Syntax 2.1. Constituents Marja-Liisa Helasvuo 2.2. X-bar structure and Minimalism Jairo Nunes 2.3. The structure of NPs Giuseppe Longobardi and Giuseppina Silvestri 2.4. Word order Pamela Munro 2.5. Scrambling Francisco Ordoñez 2.6. On V2 types Cecilia Poletto 2.7. Clitics Silvia Luraghi 2.8. Changing the subject: Shifting notions about subjecthood in Generative Grammar Tim Stowell 2.9. Alignment and grammatical relations Doris Payne 2.10. Passives and antipassives Edward Keenan 2.11. Middles and reflexives Leonid Kulikov 2.12. Causatives: Structure, type and distribution Jae Jung Song 2.13. Coordination Caterina Mauri 2.14. Wh-movement Luis Lopez 2.15. Complementation Claudia Parodi and Carlos Quicoli 2.16. Adverbial subordination Holger Diessel 2.17. Negation Liliane Haegeman and Terje Lohndal 2.18. Syntactic change Thorhallur Eythorsson 2.19. Acquisition of syntax Maria Teresa Guasti Part 3. New Directions in Syntactic Research 3.1. Usage and syntax Paul Hopper 3.2. Construction Grammar and the syntax/semantics interface Laura Michaelis 3.3. Topic, Focus and the cartography of the left periphery Luigi Rizzi 3.4. Optimality Theory as a possible framework for the Minimalism Program Vieri Samek-Lodovici Appendix: Resources in syntax Maria Freddi and Silvia Luraghi Glossary Bibliography