Syntax and Semantics, Volume 32

Audience: Researchers and advanced students in linguistics and such neighboring fields as cognitive science and psychology.

For any theory of syntax, major questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what sort of syntactic categories does it assume? what
properties do they have? how do they relate to each other? The questions are prominent in two of the main contemporary theories of syntax,
Principles and Parameters theory (P&P) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), but they are also important in other theoretical
frameworks. This book brings together ten papers which discuss questions that arise in connection with the nature and function of syntactic
categories. The papers deal among other things with functional categories, the syntax-morphology interface, mixed constructions, English
auxiliaries, the relation between syntactic and semantic categories, wh-movement phenomena, and word order in Breton and Slavic and French.

Robert D. Borsley is Professor of the Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written many papers on English, Welsh, Breton,and Polish syntax. He is author of Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach (1991), Modern Phrase Structure Grammar (1996) and co-editor of The Syntax of the Celtic Languages (1996). He is also editor of Journal of Linguistics.