Exploring Language Structure

Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a
lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of language:
syntax (the structure of sentences) and morphology
(the structure of words).

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Syntax within the Word: Economy, allomorphy, and argument selection in Distributed Morphology

Syntax within the Word provides a multifaceted look into the syntactic framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) within the Minimalist program. For those unfamiliar with the theory, this monograph provides an overview of DM and argues its strengths. For those more familiar with DM, this monograph provides analyses of familiar data much of which has not been treated within the framework: argument selection, stem allomorphy and suppletion, nominal compounds in English (feet-first vs. *heads-first), and the structure of the verb phrase.

A synopsis of English syntax

In A Synopsis of English Syntax, Nida defines the purpose of his analysis of English, syntax as "(1)  to demonstrate the application of descriptive techniques to the problems of syntax in the writer's own speech, and (2) to show in outline form the broad patterns of the language, indicating the    tagmeme structure as based on the taxemes of order, selection, modulation, and phonetic change."

Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume.

In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses initially appear plausible. Exploring the nature of such phenomena permits a deeper understanding of the nature of syntax and of neighbouring modules and their interaction. The book contributes to both traditional work in generative syntax and to the recent emphasis placed on questions related to the interfaces.