From Word to Sentence: A First Course in Syntax - Tapa dura

This is a textbook for undergraduate syntax courses and for beginning students in graduate programs. David Pesetsky presents syntax as a scientific enterprise of theory building and discovery. He sets syntax in the wider context of cognitive and brain science and takes its discussion from a variety of methodologies and disciplines. The text focuses on the three main findings of modern syntax and is organized around the story of these three discoveries. It pays attention to the human side of syntactic inquiry. From Word to Sentence shows that syntax can be taught as an exciting narrative of scientific discovery.