Movement and Silence [Paperback]

This volume collects important recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. Although the articles range widely in topic and theme, they hang together in that they illustrate the power of the comparative approach, and that they reinforce Kayne's view that syntax is generally more complex than it first appears. As with other volumes in this series, the audience for the volume will be formal linguists and syntacticians around the world.

1. New Thoughts on Stylistic Inversion (in collaboration with Jean-Yves Pollock)
2. On the Left Edge in UG: A Reply to mcCloskey
3. Review of Paola Beninca,La variazione sintattica
4. Here and There
5. Prepositions as Probes
6. Pronouns and Their Antecedents
7. On Some Prepositions That Look DP-Internal: Englishofand Frenchde
8. A Note on the Syntax of Quantity in English
9. Antisymmetry and Japanese
10. Silent Years, Silent Hours
11. Some Remarks on Agreement and on Heavy-NP Shift
12. Some Notes on Comparative Syntax: With Special Reference to English and French
Bibliography
Index

Kayne's arguments are very carefully and logically presented, moving from one step to the next before reaching often quite surprising conclusions. --Linguist List 17.1057