Minimum of English Grammar: An Introduction to Feature Theory with a Special Note on the Nature of Early Child Grammars of English

This handbook essentially delivers two books in one. On one hand, linguistic informed phenomena are presented to the reader in general terms---topics related to Child Language Acquisition, Language Impairment, as well as the Brain-Language Corollary. On the other hand, the handbook presents as its fundamental core the kind of theoretical syntax that has come to be regarded amongst Chomskyan linguists.

"I like the approach of this text. It is cutting edge, practical, and integrated. There is also implied interdisciplinarity here with psychology and biology, which students will find exciting. ... I think students, especially those preparing to teach, would find this approach interesting and helpful. ...My main impression when I first glimpsed the text was that it looks highly technical, When you start reading, however, it's engaging."---Gwen Ladd Hackler Southern Nazarene University

"Nothing like this grammar has crossed my desk in fifteen years as a college professor. ...His prose is interesting and readable. ...My interest was immediately piqued by the sections on Early Child Grammars, Shakespearian Grammar, and the English Sound System."---Anonymous