Books in the Linguistic Inquiry Monographs series

"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts?"--

An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.

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 agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.

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

A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects.

A comprehensive theory of selective opacity effects-configurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to others-within a Minimalist framework.

An investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian) as the empirical starting point.