This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.

This book characterises the diverse morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world.

Prosody in English, German and Chinese is outlined as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction.

This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence.

An integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality couched in a syntactic theory constructing trees from the top down.

The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening.