Much work has demonstrated so-called attraction errors in the production of subject–verb
agreement (eg,'The key to the cabinets are on the table',[Bock, JK, & Miller, CA (1991) …

This paper capitalizes on the difference between person complementarity (eg PCC effects)
and omnivorous number (eg the fact that a single plural marker can be used to cross …

This textbook--an abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax and the Syntax of English--
provides a concise and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the …

We investigated the relationship between linguistic representation and memory access by
comparing the processing of two linguistic dependencies that require comprehenders to …

This collection of recent essays (arranged in order of composition) has running strongly
through it both comparative syntax, which uses differences between languages as a new …

This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

This article reviews studies that have used experimental methods from psycholinguistics to
address questions about the representation of sentences involving ellipsis. Accounts of the …

This paper develops an argument for the copy theory ofmovement based on consideration of
Holmberg's Generalization [HG], a well-documented constrainton object shift in the …

Theories of total reconstruction have generally supposed that movement can be followed by
an undoing operation like LF lowering (May 1977, 1985) or deletion of higher copies …

The title question lends itself to being interpreted with an implicit “... as opposed to that,” and
the contrast between this and that in complementizer-like contexts (and elsewhere) will …