Books in the OXFORD STUDIES COMPARATIVE SYNTAX SERIES series

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.

Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on five under-studied languages of West Africa, Jason Kandybowicz develops a novel theory of the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the sound system of a language. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility.