Books in the Linguistic Inquiry Monographs series

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

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.

A radically new approach to argument structure in the minimalist program.

This minimalist study proposes that the computational system of human language must consist of strictly local operations.

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

A view of the locality conditions on vowel harmony, aligning empirical phenomena within phonology with the principles of the Minimalist program.