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Argument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics.

The central idea of this book is that movement and phrase structure are not independent properties of grammar; instead, movement is triggered by the geometry of phrase structure. Using this idea of "Dynamic antisymmetry", the book analyzes the consequences for the design of grammar.

A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects.

An exploration of the architecture of the grammar, where conditions apply, and the nature of the lexical/functional split.

Investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the framework of generative grammar. Diesing also considers the problem of deriving logical representations from syntactic representations of sentences.

It is standardly assumed that Universal Grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. This book proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption. According to this theory, phrase structure always completely determines linear order, so that if two phrases differ in linear order, they must also differ in hierarchical structure.