Richard Kayne's introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promi

Comparative work on linguistic varieties that are overall very similar can help us determine where and how exactly grammatical systems differ from one another,

This book was first published in 2010. The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing o

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative sy

Against the background of the past half century s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what