Syntactic Theory
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
GB
- 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/