Major new work arguing that grammars are profoundly shaped by language processing.

Annotation "The handbook provides an overview of the current status of this research. In its first volume, the handbook begins by presenting the historical back

This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering

Over the past decade, many issues leading towards refining the model have been identified for a theory of syntax under minimalist assumptions. One of the centra