The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax

Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in comparing differences that might otherwise appear unrealted, and has helped to identify the core principle

Preface1. Richard Kayne: Some Notes of Comparative Syntax with Special Reference to English and French2. Luigi Rizzi: On the Grammatical Basis of Language Development: A Case Study3. Arhonto Terzi: Comparative Syntax and Language Disordered4. Enoch Olade Aboh: Object Shift, Verb Movement, and Verb Reduplication5. R. Amritavalli and K. A. Jayaseelan: Finiteness and Negation in Dravidian6. Paolo Beninca and Cecila Poletto: On Some Descriptive Generalizations in Romance7. Lisa L.-S. Cheng and Rint Sybesma: Classifiers in Four Varieties of Chinese8. Michel DeGraff: Morphology and Word Order in "Creolization" and Beyond9. Steven Franks: Slavic Languages10. Anders Holmberg and Christer Platzack: The Scandinavian Languages11. Alain Kihm: Noun Class, Gender, and the Lexicon-Syntax-Morphology Interfaces: A Comparative Study of Niger-Congo and Romance Languages12. Jaklin Kornfilt: Agreement and Its Placement in Turkic Non-Subject Relative Clauses13. Nicola Munaro and Jean-Yves Pollock: Qu'est-ce-que (qu)-est-ce que? A Case Study in Comparative Romance Interrogative Syntax14. Jamal Ouhalla: Clitic-placement, Grammaticalization, and Reanalysis in Berber15. Eduardo Raposo and Juan Uriagereka: Clitic Placement in Western Iberian: A Minimalist View16. Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon: Comparative Athapaskan Syntax: Arguments and Projections17. Gemma Rigau: Number Agreement Variation in Catalan Dialects18. Andrew Simpson: Calssifiers and DP Structure in Southeast Asia19. Maggie Tallerman: The Celtic Languages20. John Whitman: Preverbal Elements in Korean and Japanese21. Jan-Wouter Zwart: Continental West-Germanic Languages