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Syntax

A Cognitive Approach

by Edward A. F. Gibson

ISBN: 9780262553575

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 16, 2025

A simple grammar formalism—dependency grammar—motivated by the observation that longer distance connections between words are harder to make.

Mereological Syntax

Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands

by David Adger

ISBN: 9780262553278

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 18, 2025

An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.

Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge

An Algebraic Model for Generative Linguistics

by Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky and Robert C. Berwick

ISBN: 9780262552523

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 5, 2025

A mathematical formalization of Chomsky’s theory of Merge in generative linguistics.

When Arguments Merge

by Elise Newman

ISBN: 9780262549103

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 15, 2024

A novel theory of argument structure based on the order in which verbs and their arguments combine across a variety of languages and language families.

Principles of Argument Structure

A Merge-Based Approach

by Chris Collins

ISBN: 9780262548274

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 17, 2024

A new theory of argument structure, based on the syntactic operation Merge and presented through an in-depth analysis of properties of the English passive construction.

On Linearization

Toward a Restrictive Theory

by Guglielmo Cinque

ISBN: 9780262544955

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 7, 2023

The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax.

Structure

Concepts, Consequences, Interactions

by Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka

ISBN: 9780262544542

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 13, 2022

Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters.