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David Pesetsky provides a brilliant and astonishingly original account of one of the most notorious problems of Russian morphosyntax--that of the case and number patterns in numerical phrases. By meticulously exposing the deep regularities beneath one language's apparently minor inflectional quirks, Pesetsky motivates a radical simplification of the overall architecture of syntactic theory. As such, Pesetsky's book is the best kind of linguistic research--it reaffirms the place of generative linguistics as an empirically driven creative science, and moves our understanding of the true relation between syntax and morphology to a new level. -- John Frederick Bailyn, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Stony Brook University; author of The Syntax of Russian

About the Author

David Pesetsky is Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT. He is the author of Zero Syntax: Experiencers and Cascades and Phrasal Movement and Its Kin, both published by the MIT Press. Pesetsky is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was recently elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.