Books in the Linguistic Inquiry Monographs series

A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.

A theory of control, equally grounded in syntax and semantics, that argues that obligatory control is achieved either through predication or through logophoric anchoring.

An exploration of the architecture of the grammar, where conditions apply, and the nature of the lexical/functional split.

Investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the framework of generative grammar. Diesing also considers the problem of deriving logical representations from syntactic representations of sentences.

An argument that the word order of a given language is largely predictable from independently observable facts about its phonology and morphology.