Robert D. Borsley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert D. Borsley is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. He studied at the University College of North Wales and the University of Edinburgh, where he did his Ph.D. He worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, University College London, the IBM UK Scientific Centre in Winchester and University College Dublin, before becoming a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor in 1986. He was awarded a Personal Chair in 1997. In 2000, he moved to the University of Essex.
Robert D. Borsley's Published Works
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Published Works
- On ‘On binding’ (1981) (290)
- Remarks and replies (1997) (123)
- The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories (1999) (115)
- Non-Transformational Syntax: Formal and Explicit Models of Grammar (2011) (94)
- Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach (1991) (89)
- Mixed Extended Projections (1999) (84)
- The Syntax of Welsh (2007) (77)
- Clitic auxiliaries and incorporation in Polish (1994) (58)
- An approach to English comparative correlatives (2004) (54)
- An HPSG approach to Welsh (1989) (54)
- Modern phrase structure grammar (1996) (50)
- The Syntax of the Celtic Languages: A Comparative Perspective (2005) (48)
- Phrase-structure grammar and the Barriers conception of clause structure (1989) (44)
- Agreement and the position of subjects in Breton (1989) (44)
- Comparative correlatives and parameters (2008) (44)
- Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: The handbook (2018) (42)
- Subjects and complements in HPSG (1987) (39)
- The syntax of the Celtic languages: Long head movement in Breton (1996) (37)
- More on the difference between English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses (1992) (36)
- Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics (2005) (32)
- Breton as a V2 language (2000) (32)
- On the superficiality of Welsh agreement (2009) (30)
- On some similarities and differences between Welsh and Syrian Arabic (1995) (30)
- Welsh Negation and Grammatical Theory (2005) (28)
- A note on prepositoins and case marking in Polish. (1988) (27)
- Gaps and resumptive pronouns in Modern Standard Arabic (2013) (26)
- Mutation and constituent structure in Welsh (1999) (25)
- Clitic auxiliaries and incorporation (1994) (22)
- Grow your own linguistics? On some applied linguists' views of the subject☆ (2002) (22)
- Slavic in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (1999) (21)
- On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization” (2009) (21)
- Prepositional complementizers in Welsh (1986) (20)
- Constructions, functional heads and comparative correlatives (2011) (19)
- VP complements: evidence from Welsh (1984) (17)
- The syntax of comparative correlatives in French and Spanish (2006) (16)
- 3. A Welsh agreement process and the status of VP and S (1983) (16)
- Non-restrictive relative clauses, ellipsis and anaphora (2008) (15)
- Wh-movement and unbounded deletion in Polish equatives (1981) (14)
- On the nature of Welsh unbounded dependencies (2013) (14)
- On the nature of Welsh VSO clauses (2006) (14)
- An HPSG approach to Welsh unbounded dependencies (2010) (12)
- Auxiliary-stranding relative clauses (2010) (12)
- Arabic relative clauses in HPSG (2012) (11)
- What do prepositional complementizers do (2001) (10)
- ON THE POLISH PERIPHERY: COMPARATIVE CORRELATIVES IN POLISH1 (2003) (9)
- Free relatives in Polish and English (1984) (9)
- On Some Welsh Unbounded Dependency Constructions (2008) (9)
- Syntactic and Lexical Approaches to Unbounded Dependencies (2006) (8)
- An HPSG Approach to Negation in Libyan Arabic (2012) (8)
- Phrase Structure (2019) (8)
- 2 The Language Muddle: Roy Harris and Generative Grammar (1997) (8)
- On pseudo-non-finite clauses in Welsh (2016) (7)
- Mutation and Case in Welsh (1997) (7)
- The syntax of Welsh negation (2000) (7)
- The syntax of the Celtic languages: Contents (1996) (7)
- A note on impersonal passives (1988) (6)
- Apparent filler–gap mismatches in Welsh (2015) (6)
- A linear approach to negative prominence (2006) (5)
- Comments on the two central claims of ‘trace theory’ (1980) (5)
- More on ‘some applied linguists’: A response to Stubbs (2003) (5)
- A note of ellipsis and case (1989) (5)
- On the analysis of English exhaustive conditionals (2014) (4)
- On the nonexistence of VP's (1984) (4)
- The development of finiteness in early Welsh (2001) (4)
- On Polish PPs (1989) (4)
- A GPSG Approach to Breton Word Order (1990) (4)
- Pattern grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English.: Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. (2002) (3)
- A note on ‘traditional treatments’ of Welsh (1987) (3)
- GPSG and Welsh clause structure (1988) (3)
- In defence of single mothers (1980) (3)
- On so-called transitive expletives in Belfast English1 (2009) (3)
- HPSG and the nature of agreement in Archi (2016) (3)
- A NEW APPROACH TO WELSH NEGATION 1 (2005) (3)
- A Note on Passives in GPSG. (1986) (2)
- Some remarks on equatives and related phenomena (1981) (2)
- A response to Schmitz (2004) (2)
- The comparative correlative construction in Modern Standard Arabic (2014) (2)
- Heads in grammatical theory: Heads in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (1993) (2)
- Syntactic theory a unified approach pdf (2015) (2)
- On a family of Welsh constructions (2020) (2)
- Simple and complex comparatives in Modern Standard Arabic (2017) (1)
- Word grammar: Richard Hudson, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1984. 267 pp. £λ22.50 (hardback), £λ7.95 (paperback). (1986) (1)
- Redefining linguistics: Hayley G. Davis and Talbot J. Taylor (eds.), Routledge, London and New York, 1990. 192 pp. £35.00 (hb.), £9.99 (pb.). (1992) (1)
- Comparative syntax: An HPSG perspective (2020) (1)
- Non-transformational theories of syntax: Formal and explicit models of grammar (2011) (1)
- The Syntax of Welsh: Syntax and mutation (2007) (1)
- Explanations and ˋEngineering Solutions'? Aspects of the relation between Minimalism and HPSG (2017) (1)
- Don't Move! (2012) (1)
- Hang on again! Are we `on the right track'? (2007) (1)
- The language machine (1990) (1)
- Regina Blass, Relevance relations in discourse: a study with special reference to Sissala . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xii+284. (1993) (0)
- The Syntax of Welsh: Introduction (2007) (0)
- Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach@@@A Concise Introduction to Syntactic Theory: The Government-Binding Approach (1993) (0)
- Natural language syntax (review) (2010) (0)
- The Welsh of Jesus and Job: Verb-second in Middle Welsh (2021) (0)
- Why do we need another book about unbounded dependencies? A review article on Chaves & Putnam’s Unbounded Dependency Constructions (2021) (0)
- Raphael Salkie, The Chomsky update: linguistics and politics . London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. Pp. xiv + 238. (1992) (0)
- David W. E. Willis,Syntactic change in Welsh: a study of the loss of verb-second. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xiii+306. (1999) (0)
- More on verbal syntax (2007) (0)
- R. May and J. Koster (eds.), Levels of syntactic representation. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1981. Pp. 302. (1983) (0)
- The syntax of the Celtic languages: Introduction (1996) (0)
- Chapter 28 HPSG and Minimalism (2021) (0)
- Language in mind and language in society: T. Pateman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiii + 194 pp. £25.00. (1989) (0)
- Chapter 1 Basic properties and elements (2021) (0)
- The Syntax of Welsh: Preface (2007) (0)
- The distribution and interpretation of Welsh N-words * (2004) (0)
- Book reviewSimpler Syntax, Peter W. Culicover, Ray Jackendoff, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2005), xvii + 608 pp. (2007) (0)
- Thomas Hoffmann, English comparative correlatives: Diachronic and synchronic variation at the lexicon–syntax interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 259. (2020) (0)
- The Comparative Correlative Construction in Modern Standard (2014) (0)
- P. Muysken and H. van Riemsdijk, Features and projections . Dordrecht: Foris, 1986. Pp. viii + 254. (1988) (0)
- A unified theory of syntactic categories: Joseph, E. Emonds, Dordrecht, Foris, 1985, 356 pp. $43.25 (hardback), $33.25 (paperback). (1987) (0)
- The Syntax of Welsh: Simple finite clauses (2007) (0)
- Skeptical Linguistic Essays (review) (2006) (0)
- Constructions,FunctionalHeads,andCom- parative Correlatives (2011) (0)
- Kate Scott, Billy Clark & Robyn Carston (eds.), Relevance, pragmatics and interpretation: Essays in honour of Deirdre Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 259. (2020) (0)
- On the structure of Welsh noun phrases (2022) (0)
- The Syntax of Welsh: Welsh as a VSO language (2007) (0)
- Unbounded Dependency Constructions1 (2021) (0)
- Chapter 13 Unbounded dependencies (2021) (0)
- MIXED EXTENDED PROJECTIONS 1 (0)
- Book review: Simpler Syntax (2007) (0)
- 2 The Language Muddle (1997) (0)
- The syntax of the Celtic languages: References (1996) (0)
- F. Heny (ed.), Binding and filtering . London: Croom Helm, 1981. Pp. 337. (1983) (0)
- J. Koster. Domains and dynasties: the radical autonomy of syntax . Dordrecht: Foris, 1987. Pp. ix + 400. (1989) (0)
- R. Hendrick, Anaphora in Celtic and universal grammar . Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1988. Pp. xi+ 284. (1989) (0)
- Aspects of English anaphora (1979) (0)
- The Syntax of Welsh: Non-finite verbs and infinitival clauses (2007) (0)
- Mutation in Welsh: Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller, London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xiv + 321 pp. £ 55.00 (hb.). (1994) (0)
- The Syntax of Welsh: Noun phrases (2007) (0)
- Andrew Radford, Relative clauses: Structure and variation in everyday English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 161). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 314. (2020) (0)
- More on agreement (2007) (0)
- Index of Languages (2011) (0)
- Pauline Jacobson and Geoffrey K. Pullum (eds), The nature of syntactic representation . (Synthese Language Library, Vol. 15.) Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1982. Pp. xix + 479. (1983) (0)
- Introduction - Data in Theoretical Linguistics (2005) (0)
- Nigel Love (ed.), The foundations of linguistic theory: selected writings of Roy Harris . London: Routledge, 1990. Pp. xv + 236. (1991) (0)
- D. Bouchard, On the content of empty categories . Dordrecht: Foris, 1983. Pp. vi + 217. (1986) (0)
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