Literature for a general audience Reference works (electronic and paper) Sources and technical literature Textbooks
- Crystal, David. 1996, second edition.
- Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 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.
- Darling, Charles.
- Guide to grammar and writing
- Greenbaum, Sidney, and Randolph Quirk. 1990.
- A student's grammar of the English language. London: Longman.
Van Pelt doesn't have this condensed version of Quirk et al. 1985, but does have two earlier versions:
Quirk, Randolph, and Sidney Greenbaum. 1975. A university grammar of English. Longman. PE1112 .Q5 1975.
Quirk, Randolph, and Sidney Greenbaum. 1973. A concise grammar of contemporary English. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. PE1112 .Q5 1973.
- Aoun, Joseph, Norbert Hornstein, and Dominique Sportiche. 1982.
- Some aspects of wide scope quantification. Journal of Linguistic Research 1:69-95.
- Barnes, Michael. 1992.
- Faroese syntax - achievements, goals and problems. In J. Louis-Jensen and J.H. Poulsen, eds., The Nordic languages and modern linguistics 7, 17-27. Tórshavn.
- Bayer, Josef. 1983-4.
- Comp in Bavarian syntax. The Linguistic Review 3:209-274.
- Berko, Jean. 1958.
- The child's learning of English morphology. Word 14:150-177.
- Besten, Hans den. 1989.
- Studies in West Germanic syntax. Ph.D. thesis, Catholic University of Brabant. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Bever,
Thomas G., andD. Terrence Langendoen. 1971.- A dynamic model of the evolution of language. Linguistic Inquiry 2:433-463.
- Borsley, Robert, and Ian Roberts. 1996.
- The syntax of the Celtic languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres.
- Brown, Roger. 1973.
- A first language: The early stages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- 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. 1965.
- Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1970.
- Remarks on nominalization. In Roderick Jacobs and Peter Rosenbaum, eds., Readings in English transformational grammar, 184-221. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1971.
- Problems of knowledge and freedom. New York: Pantheon.
- 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, 71-132. New York: Academic.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1993.
- A minimalist program for linguistic theory. In Kenneth Hale and Samuel Keyser, eds., The view from Building 20, 1-52. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Chomsky, Noam. 1995b.
- The Minimalist Program. (Current studies in linguistics 28.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Chomsky, Noam, and George A. Miller. 1963.
- Introduction to the formal analysis of natural languages. In R. Duncan Luce, Robert R. Bush, and Eugene Galanter, eds., Handbook of mathematical psychology,
vol. 2, 269-321. New York: Wiley.
- Christian, Donna, and Walt Wolfram. 1976.
- Appalachian speech. Arlington, VA: Center for Applied Linguistics.
- Crain, Stephen, and Mineharu Nakayama. 1987.
- Structure dependence in children's language. Language 62:522-543.
- Doherty, Cathol. 1993.
- The syntax of subject contact relatives. Ms., University of California at Santa Cruz.
- Emonds, Joseph. 1978.
- The verbal complex V'-V in French. Linguistic inquiry 9:151-175.
- Falk, Cecelia. 1993.
- Non-referential subjects in the history of Swedish. Doctoral disseration, University of Lund.
- Frisch, Stefan. 1997.
- The change in negation in Middle English: A NEGP licensing account. Lingua 101:21-64.
- Green, Lisa. 1998.
- Aspect and predicate phrases in African-American Vernacular English. In Salikoko Mufwene, John Rickford, Guy Bailey, and John Baugh, eds., African-American English. Structure, history and use, 37-68. London: Routledge.
- Henry, Alison. 1995.
- Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect variation and parameter setting. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Holmberg, Anders, and Christer Platzack. 1995.
- The role of inflection in Scandinavian syntax. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Huang, C.-T. James. 1982.
- Logical relations in Chinese and the theory of grammar. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT.
- 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.
- Kroch, Anthony. 1989.
- 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, 180-201. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
- Kroch, Anthony, and Ann Taylor. 2000.
- The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition.
- 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. In press.
- Verb-object order in early Middle English. In Anthony Warner et al., eds., Diachronic syntax: Models and mechanisms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Langacker, Ronald. 1969.
- Pronominalization and the chain of command. In David Reibel and Sanford Schane, eds., Modern studies in English: Readings in transformational grammar, 160-200. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
- Lasnik, Howard, and Mamoru Saito. 1984.
- On the nature of proper government. Linguistic Inquiry 15:235-289.
- Lees, Robert B. 1960.
- The grammar of English nominalizations. International Journal of American Linguistics 26,
no. 3, pt. 2. Bloomington, IN.
- MacWhinney, Brian. 2000.
- The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk. 3rd edition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Marcus, Gary, Steven Pinker, Michael Ullman, Michelle Hollander, T. John Rosen, and Fei Xu. 1992.
- Overregularization in langauge acquisition. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development,
vol. 57, no. 4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Miller, George A., and Noam Chomsky. 1963.
- Finitary models of language users. In R. Duncan Luce, Robert R. Bush, and Eugene Galanter, eds., Handbook of mathematical psychology,
vol. 2, 419-491. New York: Wiley.
- 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.
- Postal, Paul. 1969.
- On so-called "pronouns" in English. In David Reibel and Sanford Schane, eds., Modern studies in English: Readings in transformational grammar, 201-224. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
- 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.
- Roberts, Ian. 1993.
- Verbs and diachronic syntax. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
- Rohrbacher, Bernhard. 1993.
- The Germanic languages and the full paradigm: A theory of V to I raising. Doctoral disseration, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Ross, John Robert. 1967.
- Constraints on variables in syntax. Ph.D. dissertation, MIT.
- Borsley, Robert. 1999, second edition.
- Syntactic theory: A unified approach. London and New York: Arnold.
- Cook, Vivian James, and Mark Newson. 1996, second edition.
- 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.
- Cowper, Elizabeth. 1992.
- A concise introduction to syntactic theory: The Government-Binding approach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Recommended.
- Culicover, Peter. 1997.
- Principles and Parameters: An introduction to syntactic theory. (Oxford books in linguistics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Haegeman, Liliane. 1994, second edition.
- Introduction to Government & Binding theory. Cambridge: Blackwell.
- Napoli, Donna Jo. 1993.
- Syntax: Theory and problems. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.