Word Order Matters

Przemysław Tajsner is professor of linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznañ, Poland. His major research area is the interface of information structure and syntax, but his interests extend to comparative linguistics, minimalist syntax and biolinguistics. Jacek Witkoś is a professor of linguistics at AMU, with a record of research in English/Polish comparative morpho-syntax from the generative and minimalist perspective. He has published on a variety of topics, including wh-movement and its reconstruction, negation, control, reflexives and distribution and properties of pronouns.

• syntax – morpho-syntax – comparative linguistics – minimalism – word order – reason clauses – relative clauses – focus – topic – cleft sentences – information structure – left-periphery – sentence cartography – lexical features – derivation – phase – introspective judgments – gradient acceptability – reflexives – pronouns