sum syntax texts content length 3080 little week ago posted query linguist asking suggestions textbook undergraduate course syntax would like thank following people kind replies robert beard philip carpenter kevin b cohen brian lindsey alan munn helene ossipov john phillips robin sackmann also received replies several people asking reluctance deal cambridge university press several others asking decided use napoli syntax replied groups privately query syntax texts worded way eliminate napoli radford consideration limitation imposed haegemann introduction government binding theory recommended three people none books mentioned however single mentions useful brought attention works heard ones might considered otherwise complete list given thanks responded steve seegmiller linguistics department montlciar state university seegmiller apollo montclair edu charles bird timothy shopen article maninka timothy shopen ed languages speakers status university pennsylvania press keith brown jim miller syntax linguistic introduction sentence structure harper collins academic 2nd ed 1991 vivian cook chomsky universal grammar 2nd ed blackwell 1996 elizabeth cowper concise intro syntactic theory liliane haegemann introduction government binding theory 2nd ed blackwell lieb hans heinrich integrational linguistics jacobs j et al eds syntax international handbook contemporary research berlin new york de gruyter 1993 lieb hans heinrich integrational linguistics lieb hans heinrich ed prospects new structuralism current issues linguistic theory cilt 96 amsterdam philadelphia benjamins 1992 ronald wardhaugh understanding english grammar linguistic aproach blackwell 1995 gert webelhuth ed government binding theory minimalist program