Concise, readable introduction to syntactic theory, mainly to Chomsky's minimalist programme.

Presents an introduction to the major issues in Principles and Parameters syntactic theory, including phrase structure, the lexicon, case theory, movement, and locality conditions. This title includes chapters on advanced topics including vP shells, object shells, control, gapping and ellipsis and on advanced topics in binding.

A self-contained text for lexical-functional grammar. It provides an accessible, empirically-motivated treatment of the mathematical architecture of LFG, the theoretical linguistic ideas that it can model, and the wide range of cross-linguistic syntactic phenomena it has been applied to.

This widely acclaimed textbook provides a complete introduction to the syntax of human languages.

An introduction to a body of ideas that have been central to syntax. It considers how they have been developed in two broad frameworks: government binding theory and phrase structure grammar. This second edition is updated in the light of developments in syntax theory.