Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2010. — 433 p.
/Illustrations by Kimiko Ryokai/
This book arose out of an effort to rethink part of the undergraduate curriculum in linguistics at Stony Brook University in line with the traditional goals of undergraduate education. Specifically, it represents an attempt to reconsider the structure and content of the introductory syntax course from the standpoint of three broad questions:
What is the general educational value of studying syntax?
What broad intellectual issues are engaged in studying syntax?
What general intellectual skills are developed by studying syntax?