Universal Grammar (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenans long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. It includes two seminal foundation articles, Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar (with Bernard Comrie) and Towards a Universal Definition of Subject of. Most of the other articles have appeared in a variety of relatively inaccessible places, and so this book brings together for the first time a large body of work supporting the research directions taken in the foundation articles. In addition, one article of a psycholinguistic sort was specially prepared for this volume.