36.3390, Books: Footprints of Phrase Structure: Arche, Zwart, Demirdache, and Borer (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 05-Nov-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Footprints of Phrase Structure: Arche, Zwart, Demirdache, and Borer (eds.) (2025)


Title: Footprints of Phrase Structure
Subtitle: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today   288
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.288

Editor(s): María J. Arche; Jan-Wouter Zwart; Hamida Demirdache; Hagit
Borer

eBook ISBN:  9789027244772 Pages:  382 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244772 Pages:  382 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244772 Pages:  382 Price: U.S. $ 176.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027222275 Pages:  382 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027222275 Pages:  382 Price: Europe EURO 143.10
Hardback ISBN:  9789027222275 Pages:  382 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027222275 Pages:  382 Price: U.S. $ 176.00

Abstract:

This volume presents a collection of state-of-the-art studies that
illustrate recent advances in the understanding of human language,
grammar design and linguistic categories. The title of the volume aims
at highlighting the mark that the work of Tim Stowell has had on the
field of Linguistics since his dissertation, Origins of Phrase
Structure, defended at the MIT in 1981. Stowell’s work established the
principles that replaced individual phrase structure rules from
previous generative models with general universal constraints, setting
off the articulation of formal grammars on a new journey. The papers
gathered here demonstrate how that principled approach runs in the
field today. The empirical evidence discussed in the papers comes from
15 different languages, which makes the volume a point of reference
for cross-linguistic analyses and testimony to the wealth of
descriptive knowledge brought to the scientific community.
A wide array of linguistic generations contributed to this volume,
ranging from legendary ones who established the field as we’ve known
it, to some who have only recently received their doctorates. This
plainly demonstrates the time spanning impact of Stowell’s work and
the deep footprint he has left in the field and in our lives.

Written In: English (eng)



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