Adopting a modern approach and with extensive use of clear comprehensive diagrams, Essential Microbiology explains key topics through the use of definition boxes and end of chapter questions.

This monumental reference resource offers a comprehensive survey of the field of syntax as it has been studied over the last forty years or so. Made up of 77 extensive case studies written by 80 of the world's leading linguists, it gives a complete overview of the empirical facts and theoretical insights gleaned in syntactic research in recent decades.

Under the editorial direction of martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk, this comprehensive multi-volume set comprises case studies commissioned specifically for this Companion. Contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joseph Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, C.-T. James Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others.

Each set features an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume. The entire Companion is also available electronically on the accompanying CD-Rom. Published within the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this significant reference work can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which this series - and Blackwell Publishing' linguistics list - is associated.