Literature for a general audience Technical literature and sources Textbooks
- Crystal, David. 1996.
- Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Campbell, Jeremy. 1982.
- Grammatical man. Information, entropy, language, and life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Pinker, Steven. 1994.
- The language instinct. How the mind creates language. New York: Morrow.
- Aoun, Joseph, Norbert Hornstein, and Dominique Sportiche. 1982.
- Some aspects of wide scope quantification. Journal of Linguistic Research 1: 69–95.
- Bayer, Josef. 1983-4.
- Comp in Bavarian syntax. The Linguistic Review 3, 209–274.
- Belazi, Hedi, Edward Rubin and Jacqueline Toribio. 1994.
- Code switching and X-bar theory: The Functional Head Constraint. Linguistic Inquiry 25, 221–237.
- Bever, T.G. and D.T. Langendoen. 1971.
- A dynamic model of the evolution of language. Linguistic Inquiry 2, 433–463.
- Bowers, John. 1993.
- The syntax of predication. Linguistic Inquiry 24, 591–656.
- Burzio, Luigi. 1986.
- Italian syntax. A Government-Binding approach. (Studies in natural language and linguistic theory.) Dordrecht: Reidel.
- Chomsky, Carol. 1969.
- The acquisition of syntax in children from 5 to 10. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1964.
- Current issues in linguistic theory. The Hague: Mouton.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1970.
- Remarks on nominalization. In Roderick Jacobs and Peter Rosenbaum (eds.), Readings in English transformational grammar. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell. 184–221.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1973.
- Conditions on transformations. In Stephen Anderson and Paul Kiparsky (eds.), A Festschrift for Morris Halle. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1977.
- On wh-movement. In Peter Culicover, Thomas Wasow and Adrian Akmajian (eds.), Formal syntax. New York: Academic Press. 71–132.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1981.
- Lectures on government and binding. (Studies in generative grammar 9.) Dordrecht: Foris.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1986.
- Barriers. (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 13.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1993.
- A minimalist program for linguistic theory. In Kenneth Hale and Samuel Keyser (eds.), The view from Building 20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1–52.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1995a.
- Bare phrase structure. In Gert Webelhuth (ed.), Government and Binding theory and the Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. 383–439.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1995b.
- The Minimalist Program. (Current studies in linguistics 28.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- den Besten, Hans. 1989.
- Studies in West Germanic syntax. Ph.D. thesis, Catholic University of Brabant. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Doherty, Cathol. 1993.
- The syntax of subject contact relatives. Ms., University of California at Santa Cruz.
- Gould, James L. and Peter Marler. 1987.
- Learning by instinct. Scientific American, January. Reprinted in: William S.-Y. Wang. 1991. The emergence of language. Development and evolution. New York: Freeman. 88–103.
- Grimshaw, Jane. 1991.
- Extended projection. To appear in Peter Coopmans, Martin Everaert, and Jane Grimshaw (eds.), Lexical specification and lexical insertion. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Hellan, Lars. 1988.
- Anaphora in Norwegian and the theory of grammar. (Studies in generative grammar 32.) Dordrecht: Foris.
- Hellan, Lars. 1991.
- A two-level X-bar system. Lingua 84, 239–257.
- Henry, Alison. 1995.
- Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect variation and parameter setting. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Heycock, Caroline. 1991.
- Layers of predication: The non-lexical syntax of clauses. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. Published in 1994 in the series Outstanding dissertations in linguistics, New York: Garland Press.
- Holmberg, Anders. 1988.
- The head of S in Scandinavian and English. McGill working papers in linguistics: Special issue on comparative Germanic syntax, 123–155.
- Huang, C.-T. James. 1982.
- Logical relations in Chinese and the theory of grammar. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT.
- Humboldt, Wilhelm von. 1836.
- Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues. The Hague: Mouton.
- Iatridou, Sabine. 1986.
- An anaphor not bound in its governing category. Linguistic inquiry 17, 766–772.
- Jackendoff, Ray. 1973.
- The base rules for prepositional phrases. In Steven Anderson and Paul Kiparsky (eds.), A Festschrift for Morris Halle. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 345–356.
- Joshi, Aravind, L. Levy and M. Takahashi. 1975.
- Tree adjunct grammars. Journal of the Computer and System Sciences 10, 136–163.
- Kayne, Richard. 1984.
- Connectedness and binary branching. Dordrecht: Foris.
- Kayne, Richard. 1989.
- Notes on English agreement. CIEFL Bulletin 1, 40–67.
- Kayne, Richard. 1994.
- The antisymmetry of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Asymmetries in long distance extraction in a TAG grammar. In Mark Baltin and Anthony Kroch (eds.), Alternative conceptions of phrase structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 66–98.
- Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change. Language Variation and Change 1, 199–244.
- Kroch, Anthony. 1994.
- Morphosyntactic variation. In K. Beals (ed.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, vol. 2. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 180–201.
- Kroch, Anthony and Aravind Joshi. 1985.
- The linguistic relevance of tree adjoining grammars. Technical report MS-CIS-85-16, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.
- Kroch, Anthony and Ann Taylor. 1995.
- Verb movement in Old and Middle English: dialect variation and language contact. In Ans van Kemenade and Nigel Vincent (eds.), Parameters of morphosyntactic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 45–68.
- Kroch, Anthony, Ann Taylor, and Donald Ringe. 1995.
- The Middle English verb-second constraint: a case study study in language contact and language change. Ms., University of Pennsylvania. To appear in Susan Herring et al. (eds.), Textual parameters in older languages. Benjamins.
- Lasnik, Howard and Mamoru Saito. 1984.
- On the nature of proper government. Linguistic Inquiry 15: 235–289.
- Lees, Robert. 1960.
- The grammar of English nominalizations. Bloomington, IN.
- Mahootian, Shahrzad. 1993.
- A null theory of codeswitching. Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University.
- Moore, John. 1961.
- You English words. A book about them. New York: Dell.
- Mossé, Fernand. 1968.
- A handbook of Middle English. Translated by James A. Walker. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Pinker, Steven. 1994.
- The language instinct. How the mind creates language. New York: Morrow.
- Pintzuk, Susan. 1991.
- Phrase structures in competition: variation and change in Old English word order. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
- Platzack, Christer. 1988.
- The emergence of a word order difference in Scandinavian subordinate clauses. McGill working papers in linguistics: Special issue on comparative Germanic syntax, 215–238.
- Platzack, Christer and Anders Holmberg. 1988.
- On the role of inflection in Scandinavian syntax. Working papers in Scandinavian syntax 42, 25–42.
- Premack, David and Ann James Premack. 1983.
- The mind of an ape. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Reinhart, Tanya. 1983.
- Anaphora and semantic transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Rizzi. Luigi. 1990.
- Relativized minimality. (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 16.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Ross, John Robert. 1967.
- Constraints on variables in syntax. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT.
- Sankoff, David and Shana Poplack. 1981.
- A formal grammar for code-switching. Papers in Linguistics 14, 3–43.
- Sobin, Nicholas. 1985.
- Case assignment in Ukrainian morphological passive constructions. Linguistic Inquiry 16, 649–662.
- Stowell, Timothy. 1983.
- Subjects across categories. Linguistic Review 2, 285–312.
Wagner, Jane. 1986. The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe. Harper & Row.
- Borsley, Robert. 1999, 2nd ed.
- Syntactic theory: a unified approach. London and New York: E. Arnold. Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall.
P291 .B674 1991 (1st ed.).
- Cook, Vivian James and Mark Newson. 1996, 2nd ed.
- Chomsky's Universal Grammar. An introduction. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Recommended. The chapter on Minimalism is especially useful, and there is ample discussion of language acquisition issues.
P85.C47 C66 1996.
- Cowper, Elizabeth. 1992.
- A concise introduction to syntactic theory. The Government-Binding approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Recommended. Lives up to its name.
On order.
- Culicover, Peter. 1997.
- Principles and Parameters. An introduction to syntactic theory. (Oxford books in linguistics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
On order.
- Haegeman, Liliane. 1994, 2nd ed.
- Introduction to Government & Binding theory. Cambridge: Blackwell.
P158.2 .H34 1991.
- Napoli, Donna Jo. 1993.
- Syntax. Theory and problems. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The exposition is uneven and can be confusing for the beginner.
Not in Van Pelt.