The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

RR 2016/016 The Routledge Handbook of Syntax Edited by Andrew Carnie, Yosuke Sato and Daniel Siddiqi Routledge London and New York 2014 xviii + 716 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 53394 2; ISBN 978 1 317 75103 8 (e-book) £150 $240 Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics

Keywords Syntax, Linguistics

Review DOI 10.1108/RR-09-2015-0208

"The study of syntax has been rife with controversy both within the dominant generative paradigm and among those working in functionalist and related approaches". The only comment I would make on that quotation is that the study of syntax in my student days (admittedly a very long time ago) was never like this. For one thing, of course, my own studies related only to English, Latin and Ancient Greek, while one of the many advances exemplified in this book is the expansion of study across many,...