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Grammar theories

Index of SIL publications on Grammar theories listed by country.

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General works

• BAART, Joan L. G., author. 1996. Review of: Grammatical theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky, by P. H. Matthews.
• BAART, Joan L. G., author. 1998. Review of: The empirical base of linguistics: grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology, by Carson T. Schütze.
• BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 1998. Review of: Parameters and functional heads: essays in comparative syntax, by Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi.
• BLASS, Regina, author. 1998. Review of: Auxiliaries, cognitive forces and grammaticalization, by Bernd Heine.
• BLASS, Regina, author. 1998. Review of: Grammaticalization: a conceptual framework, by Bernd Heine, Ulrike Claudi and Friederike Hünnemeyer.
• BRAINARD, Sherri, author. 1998. Review of: Grammatical constructions: their form and meaning, Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson, editors.
• CLIFTON, John M., author. 1998. Review of: Parameters of Slavic morphosyntax, by Steven Franks.
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1995. Combining functional and formal approaches to language.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1992. Review of: Autolexical syntax: a theory of parallel grammatical representations, by Jerrold M. Sadock.
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1999. Review of: Semiotic grammar, by William B. McGregor.
• KIEVIT, Dirk, author. 2009. Review of: Skeptical linguistic essays, by Paul M. Postal.  
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1960. "String constituent analysis."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1970. "Hierarchy in language."
• MALONE, Terry, author. 1998. Review of: Incorporation: a theory of grammatical function changing, by Mark C. Baker.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1998. Review of: The polysynthesis parameter, by Mark C. Baker.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 2000. Review of: Lexical and constructional aspects of linguistic explanation: studies in constraint-based lexicalism, by Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Andreas Kathol.
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 2000. Review of: Lexical relations, by Jean-Pierre Koenig.
• NIDA, Eugene A., author. 1948. "The analysis of grammatical constituents."
• O’HERIN, Brian, author. 2010. Review of: Possible and probable languages: a generative perspective on linguistic typology.  
• PECK, Charles W., author. 1998. Review of: Minimal ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework, AbrahamWerner Abraham and others, editors.
• SIM, Ronald J., author. 1994. Review of: The philosophy of grammar, by Otto Jespersen.
• WEBER, David J., author. 1993. Some reflections on formal syntax.
• WEBER, David J., author. 1998. Review of: Ellipsis: Functional heads, licensing, and identification, by Anne Lobeck.
• WEBER, David J., author. 1998. Review of: Functionalism and grammar, by Talmy Givón.
• WEBER, David J., author. 2009. Review of: Constructions at work: the nature of generalization in language, by Adele E. Goldberg.  
• WIESEMANN, Ursula, author. 1997. Review of: German in head-driven phrase structure grammar, John Nerbonne, Klaus Netter and Carl Pollard, editors.
• WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1996. Review of: The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world, by Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins and William Pagliuca.
• WILLETT, Thomas L., author. 1997. Review of: Grammaticalization, by Paul J. Hopper and Elizabeth Closs Traugott.
• WIT, Gert de, author. 1994. Review of: Theory and description in generative syntax: a case study in West Flemish, by Liliane Haegeman.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Côte d’Ivoire

• MARCHESE, Lynell, author. 1977. The verbal system in Godié: a daughter dependency approach.

Ethiopia

• SIM, Ronald J., author. 1989. Predicate conjoining in Hadiyya: a head-driven PS grammar.

Americas

Brazil

• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1983. Grammaticalization: An introduction.
• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1983. "A gramática dos genes."
• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1985. "Uma introdução aos princípios básicos da teoria de regência e vinculação: a teoria chomskyana e uma discussão epistemológica."
• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1986. "O diálogo e a seleção de dados para uma gramática."
• MATTOS, Rinaldo de; WIESEMANN, Ursula, authors. 1980. Metodologia de análise gramatical.
• WIESEMANN, Ursula, author. 2008. "Análise do discurso e estudo da gramática."

Colombia

• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1983. The generative revolution and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (part 1).
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1984. The generative revolution and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (part 2).

Ecuador

• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1983. The generative revolution and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (part 1).
• MAXWELL, Michael B., author. 1984. The generative revolution and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (part 2).

Mexico

• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1984. Assumptions in Maxwell’s article ‘The generative revolution and the Summer Institute of Linguistics’.

Peru

• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1987. A survey of morphological theories (Report on the Milwaukee morphology meeting, April 1986).

Suriname

• HUTTAR, George L., author. 1977. Some thoughts on clauses.  

Asia

Thailand

• THOMAS, David D., author. 1980. "Toward a theory of sentence structure."  
• TUMTAVITIKUL, Apiluck, author. 1997. "Reflection on the Xʼ category in Thai."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• ROBERTS, John R., author. 1988. "Amele switch-reference and the theory of grammar."