References

Contents

Literature for a general audience
Reference works (electronic and paper)
Sources and technical literature
Textbooks

Literature for a general audience

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.

Reference grammars

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.

Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. 1985.
A comprehensive grammar of the English language. London: Longman.
Van Pelt Reference, PE1106 .C65 1985.

Sources and technical literature

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., and D. 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.

Vikner, Sten. 1995.
Verb movement and expletive subjects in the Germanic languages. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wagner, Jane. 1986.
The search for signs of intelligent life in the universe. New York: Harper & Row.

Textbooks

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.

Radford, Andrew. 1988.
Transformational syntax: A first course. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Recommended as an introduction to syntactic argumentation. The style can be grating.

Radford, Andrew. 1997.
Syntactic theory and the structure of English: A minimalist approach. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.