The division labor between the lexicon and the
syntax has been a major topic within the generative
grammar for decades. Many linguists have been
occupied with assigning more central information to
the lexicon in order to explain the syntactic
behaviors which seem to be dependent on the lexical
semantics of certain items. This book, however,
argues that the syntax-driven approach, whereby
properties of grammatical structures, typically
having been assumed to be associated with lexical
items, are reduced to general syntactic
considerations, can provide straightforward accounts
to...