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Hubert Haider is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Salzburg. He specializes in the theory of syntax, comparative syntax and syntax and the brain. His previous publications include The Syntax of German (Cambridge, 2010).
'Professor Haider's Basic Branching Constraint is a bold solution to the problem of word order and word order correlations in language … should be read and taken seriously by grammarians of all stripes.' Frederick J. Newmeyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
'There's a big idea at the core of this book, that natural languages have only right-branching structures: left-branching structures do not exist. Haider explored this idea in his 2010 Syntax of German, showing that it led to productive analyses for German, but here he takes things to a new level and examines consequences for analyses in a range of languages and compares his proposal to related ideas in other theoretical models.' David W. Lightfoot, Georgetown University
'Professor Haider's Basic Branching Constraint is a bold solution to the problem of word order and word order correlations in language … should be read and taken seriously by grammarians of all stripes.' Frederick J. Newmeyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
'There's a big idea at the core of this book, that natural languages have only right-branching structures: left-branching structures do not exist. Haider explored this idea in his 2010 Syntax of German, showing that it led to productive analyses for German, but here he takes things to a new level and examines consequences for analyses in a range of languages and compares his proposal to related ideas in other theoretical models.' David W. Lightfoot, Georgetown University