FACTA UNIVERSITATIS Series: Linguistics and Literature Vol. 13, N o 1, 2015, pp. 55 - 60 Book Reviews Enoch Oladé Aboh, Maria Teresa Guasti, Ian Roberts (eds.) LOCALITY Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax Oxford University Press, 2014 Sabina Halupka-Rešetar Department of English, University of Novi Sad, Serbia SUMMARY This volume is a collection of eleven papers dealing with the concept of locality in syntactic theory. The chapters, authored by fifteen eminent generative linguists, explore this key concept in linguistic theorizing, relating to the line of research Luigi Rizzi has pursued for three and a half decades. Various issues pertaining to locality are explored crosslinguistically and in both syntactic and psycholinguistic terms, which makes the present volume an extremely rich and useful reference book both for students and scholars working in the domains of linguistic theory, generative syntax and comparative syntax. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the editors, Enoch O. Aboh, Maria Teresa Guasti and Ian Roberts (p. 1-31), in which Luigi Rizzi‟s contribution to the field is presented in context. First, the theory of locality is defined as the theory of the finite domains over which syntactic dependencies and operations apply and of their relation to the fundamentally unbounded nature of syntax. Following this, the editors sketch the development of the theory of locality of A‟-movement in generative syntax in the most important works in this area (such as Chomsky 1964, 1973, 1986 and Ross 1967). This serves as an excellent brief introduction to the description of the three innovations in the theory of locality which have been extremely influential in the development of syntactic theory and are attributed to Rizzi: (a) the observation that bounding nodes/barriers in Italian are different from those in English, (b) the connection between complementizer- trace effects and the null-subject parameter and (c) relativized minimality. The chapter closes with an overview of the chapters in the volume. Chapter 2 (p. 32-57), Richard Kayne and Jean-Yves Pollock‟s „Locality and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion‟(HCI) focuses on inversion structures Submitted May 17 th 2015 Corresponding author: Sabina Halupka-Rešetar Department of English, University of Novi Sad, Serbia E-mail: halupka.resetar@gmail.com brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk