Bloque I: Generative approaches.

Cook, Vivian J. & Mark Newson. 2007 [1996]. Chomsky's Universal Grammar. An introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Radford, Andrew. 2004. Minimalist syntax. Exploring the structure of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bloque II: Optimality Theory.

Archangeli, Diana. 1997. "Optimality Theory: An introduction to linguistics in the 1990's". In Optimality Theory: An Overview, ed. by Diana Archangeli and D. Terence Langendoen, 1-32. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kager, René. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Legendre, Géraldine. 2001. "An introduction to Optimality Theory in syntax". Optimality-Theoretic Syntax, ed. by Géraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw and Sten Vikner, 1-28. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McCarthy, John J. 2002. A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCarthy, John J. (ed.) 2003. Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader. Malden, MA, and Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Prince, Alan and Smolensky, Paul. 2004. Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar. Malden, MA, and Oxford, UK: Blackwell. [Revision of 1993 technical report, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science. Available on Rutgers Optimality Archive, ROA-537.].