Comparing Syntax

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. In 2007 he became an Ordinary Fellow of the British Academy, and between 2019 and 2022 was the Chair of the Linguistics and Philology Section of the British Academy. He has published eight monographs and three textbooks, and has edited several collections of articles.

• 1. Word-Order Typology; 2. The theory of linearization and the Final over Final Condition; 3. Null Subjects; 4. Polysynthesis and 'Deep' Analyticity; 5. Verb Movement; 6. Ergativity; 7. Interrogatives; 8. Negation; 9. Parameters.

'This excellent third volume of Roberts' syntax trilogy introduces students to generative theories of linguistic typology: why does the grammar of languages vary in just the way it does? The book expertly explains fundamental concepts, generalisations, and phenomena. Novel problem sets, end-of-chapter reading lists, and a glossary make it uniquely helpful to intermediate and advanced syntax students.' David Adger, Queen Mary University London