At earlier stages of the theory of government and binding (Chomsky 1981), the binding
theory was also believed to govern certain aspects of the restrictions on movement, most …

Under what conditions are expressions of a language the same; when are they different?
Indices and Identity focuses on this question in the context of the theory of anaphora and on …

One of the most striking differences between Chinese and English is the fact tha reflexives
must have strictly local antecedents whereas in Chinese, as well as in other East Asian …

In most European languages intensifiers (eg Latin ipse, German selbst, Russian sam, Italian
stesso, etc.) differ from reflexive pronouns (Latin se, German sich, Russian sebja, Italian sè) …

The locality restrictions on reflexives vary widely from language to language. For example,
as discussed in Cole, Hermon, and Sung 1990 and in many other works, reflexives in …

Evidence from comparative syntax is combined with evidence from child language
acquisition to address foundational questions about the mental representation of language …

This dissertation focuses on a set of languages that to different degrees lack infinitival
structures, and studies the behavior of the finite representations that have replaced them …

Most recent approaches to language learnability and acquisition have assumed that
parameter setting is largely a deductive process. This article develops the thesis that …

This book, which represents a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, is concerned with
the representation and interpretation of pronominal elements and focuses on issues at the …

Reciprocal constructions arguably denote the most complex event type to be expressed in
most languages by regular grammatical means. A clause like John and Mary love/chase …