Introduction to Government and Binding Theory

Synopsis of Introduction to Government and Binding Theory

«Introduction to Government and Binding Theory» is Liliane Haegeman's textbook on generative syntax, published by Wiley-Blackwell in paperback (728 pages, in English).

A reference work on the Principles and Parameters approach within generative grammar, also known as government and binding theory. Starting from sentence structure and the lexicon, the author develops case theory, anaphoric relations, unpronounced categories, syntactic movement and logical form. The second edition adds chapters on functional heads, head movement and relativized minimality, with revised exercises to work on the most debated topics in theoretical syntax.

Originally published in 1991; this second edition is from June 1994. It is part of the Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics series, where it is number 1.

Intended for linguistics students with basic knowledge of generative grammar who want to deepen their formal syntactic analysis.