new books syntax morphology 3 titles negation clausal structure comparative study romance languages raffaella zanuttini georgetown university oxford studies comparative syntax zanuttini absolutely cutting edge research romance languages theoretical syntax significant contribution field donna jo napoli swarthmore college every human language syntactic means distinguishing negative nonnegative sentence words every speaker syntactic competence provides means express sentential negation ability however may expressed different ways shown fact individual languages employ different syntactic strategies expression semantic function negating sentence zanuttini goal characterize range variation comparing different syntactic means expressing sentential negation exhibited members one language family romance languages reducing differences witness constrained set choices available particular grammars languages sort analysis first step towards ultimate goal determining understanding limits syntactic options universal grammar imposes expression sentential negation september 1997 216 pp 18 charts 019 508055 6 paper 39 95 oxford university press clause structure word order hebrew arabic essay comparative semitic syntax ur shlonsky university geneva oxford studies comparative syntax shlonsky uses chomsky government binding approach examine clausal architecture verb movement hebrew several varieties arabic establishes syntactic analysis hebrew extends analysis certain aspects arabic clausal syntax comparative lens hebrew shlonsky hopes resolve number problems arabic syntax results generate novel important conclusions concerning patterns negations verb movement nature participles gamut positions available clausal subjects languages june 1997 304 pp 019 510867 1 paper 45 00 019 510866 3 cloth 75 00 oxford university press tense aspect semantics morphosyntax alessandra giorgi university bergamo italy fabio pianesi institute technology scientific research irst trento italy oxford studies comparative syntax book examines interactions morphosyntax semantic interpretation tense aspect germanic romance languages languages diverge variety tense aspectual forms also distribution interpretation given forms adopting noam chomsky minimalist framework alessandra giorgi fabio pianesi attempt provide theoretical explanations observed patterns form meaning link morphosyntactic properties languages universal languageparticular constraints interpretation december 1997 336 pp 019 509193 0 paper 35 00 019 509192 2 cloth 85 00 oxford university press information linguistics titles oxford university press email linguistics oupusa org visit oxford university press usa web site http www oupusa org oxford university press usa