Reading List for the Subfield Syntactic Theory.

Traditional Grammar

Aarts, Bas (2001): English Syntax and Argumentation (2nd ed.). Palgrave.
Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum (2002): The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum (2005): A Student's Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kaplan, Jeffrey P. (1989): English Grammar - Principles and Facts (2nd edition). New Jersey.

Government and Binding / Minimalism

Basic or Introductory Texts

Black, Cheryl A. 1996. A step-by-step introduction to Government and Binding Theory of Syntax.‭ Notes on Linguistics 73: 5-12. (online article: Black: A Step-by-Step Introduction to GB )
Haegeman, Liliane (1994): Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Blackwell.
Haegeman, Liliane; Gueron, Jaqueline (1999): English Grammar. A Generative Perspective. Cambridge: Blackwell.

Minimalism

Radford, Andrew (2004): English Syntax: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hornstein, Norbert; Nunes, Jairo; Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (2005): Understanding Minimalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Additional Texts or further Reading

Chomsky, Noam (1993): Lectures on Government and Binding. The Pisa Lectures (7th ed.). New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Halle, Morris & Alec Marantz. (1993): 'Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection.' In: The View from Building 20, ed. Kenneth Hale and S. Jay Keyser. MIT Press, Cambridge, 111-176.

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Basic Texts

Kim, Jong-Bok and Peter Sells (2008): English Syntax: An Introduction, CSLI.
Müller, Stefan: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar - Eine Einführung, Stauffenburg Verlag (2007)
Sag, Ivan A., Thomas Wasow and Emily Bender (2003): Syntactic Theory. A Formal Introduction. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Related links:
- Official web site of this book: http://hpsg.stanford.edu/book/
- The Feature Library: http://www.gwdg.de/~msailer2/HPSG_site/
  Overview over the features used in Sag/Wasow/Bender 2003. The web site may contain errors since it was compiled from students homework and not checked for consistency yet.

Additional Texts

Klenk, Ursula: Generative Syntax, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen (2003)
Pollard, Carl and Ivan A. Sag (1994): Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Sites with downloadable papers on current HPSG research (for more consult the HPSG links)

Interactive HPSG Bibliography: http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/HPSG-Bib/
Online Proceedings of the International HPSG conferences since 2002: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/HPSG/

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