The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for every-one who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article.

Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle Johnson), Ergativity (by Alana Johns), tone (by San Duanmu), acquisition of phonology (by Paula Fikkert), and semantic change (by Elizabeth Closs Traugott).

The second volume offers articles on subjects ranging from the development of grammars (by David Lightfoot) and markedness in phonology (by Keren Rice) to the syntactic representation of linguistic events (by Sara Thomas Rosen), optionality in Optimality syntax (by Gereon Müller) and the nature of coordination (by Ljiljana Progovac).

Autorentext

Lisa Cheng is Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Rint Sybesma is Researcher at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Inhalt

Preface

The development of grammars
David Lightfood

Semantics and the Generative Enterprise
J.-Marc Authier

The semantics of Mood
Paul Portner

Three approaches to discourse and donkey anaphora
Henriëtte de Swart

Floating quantifiers: Handle with care
Jonathan David Bobaljik

No lack of determination
Greg Carlson

Partivity
Helen de Hoop

Islands
Anna Szabolcsi and Marcel den Dikken

Structure for coordination
Ljiljana Progovac

Optionality in optimality-theoretic syntax
Gereon Müller

The syntactic representation of linguistic events
Sara Thomas Rosen

Syntactic approaches to cliticization
M. Rita Manzini

Featural markedness in phonology: variation
Keren Rice

Schwa in phonological theory
Marc van Oostendorp

Distributed Morphology
Heidi Harley and Rolf Noyer

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