Closest conjunct agreement is of great theoretical interest in terms of what it reveals about
the structure of coordination; the locality of agreement relations; and the interaction between …

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides …

This dissertation has two inter-related goals:(i) to describe and provide novel analyses of
three types of important and difficult phenomena within Amharic DPs and (ii) to explore the …

Abstract This paper investigates Small Nominals, that is nominals that lack the DP
projection. It is shown that Small Nominals can appear in argument positions, but even in …

Starting from an analysis for the crosslinguistic variation in the grammaticality of DP-internal
conjunctions such as This [man and woman] are in love, this article develops a theory of the …

Abstract “Hybrid” nouns are known for being able to trigger either syntactic or semantic
agreement, the latter typically occurring outside the noun's projection. We document and …

I argue for a novel model of feature valuation in the CI interface and explore under what
circumstances a syntactic feature is semantically interpretable. As the groundwork for the …

The theoretical focus of my thesis is the methodology of establishing the hierarchy of
functional projections. I argue that four factors influence the hierarchy: mapping to …

A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a
formal approach to the study of language using a step-by-step approach and rich language …

Recent work on the syntax and semantics of functional projections within the noun phrase
has had as one goal an explanation for the crosslinguistic distribution of …