Constituent Structure - Part 24 | Acknowledgements This book has benefited from the input advice and feedback from a number of people ranging from answering simple email queries to reading all or some of the manuscript. Here s a partial list in alphabetical order Anne Abeille Ash Asudeh Andy Barss Bob Berwick Tom Bever Sherrylyn Branchaw Jean Carnie Fiona Carnie Morag Carnie Robert Carnie Robert Chametzky Noam Chomsky John Davey Andrea Dauer Malcolm Elliott Yehuda Falk Georgia Green Heidi Harley Michael Hammond Richard Hudson Peter Kahrel Tibor Kiss Simin Karimi Tracy Holliway King Terry Langendoen Shalom Lappin Howard Lasnik Tel Monks David P. Medeiros Stefan Muller David Pesetsky Massimo Piatelli-Palmar-ini Chloe Plummer Carl Pollard Geoff Pullum Sumayya Racy Ivan Sag Maggie Shade Yosuke Sato Robert Van Valin Steve Weschler. Thanks to you all. Special thanks go to my family who let me work on this book while ignoring them over the 2006 winter holidays. AC Tucson February 2007 General Preface Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology provides overviews of the major approaches to subjects and questions at the centre of linguistic research in morphology and syntax. The volumes are accessible critical and up-to-date. Individually and collectively they aim to reveal the field s intellectual history and theoretical diversity. Each book published in the series will characteristically contain 1 a brief historical overview of relevant research in the subject 2 a critical presentation of approaches from relevant but usually seen as competing theoretical perspectives to the phenomena and issues at hand including an objective evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach to the central problems and issues 3 a balanced account of the current issues problems and opportunities relating to the topic showing the degree of consensus or otherwise in each case. The volumes will thus provide researchers and graduate students concerned with syntax morphology and related aspects of grammar communication and
