Ebook: The Blackwell companion to syntax

This monumental reference resource offers a comprehensive survey of the field of syntax as it has been studied over the last 40 years. Made up of 70 extensive case studies written by 80 of the world’s leading linguists, it gives a complete overview of the empirical facts and theoretical insights gleaned in syntactic research in recent decades.Under the editorial direction of Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemskijk, this comprehensive multi-volume set comprises case studies commissioned specifically for this volume. Contributors are drawn from an international group of prestigious linguists, including Joe Emonds, Sandra Chung, Susan Rothstein, Adriana Belletti, Jim Huang, Howard Lasnik, and Marcel den Dikken, among many others.Each set features an accessible alphabetical structure, with an index integral to each volume. The entire Companion is also available electronically on the accompanying CD Rom. Published within the prestigious Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series, this significant reference work can be relied upon to deliver the quality and expertise with which this series – and Blackwell Publishing’s linguistics list more broadly – is associated.