Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative …
Different verbs can take different kinds of arguments. Factive verbs such as remember and forget take clausal complements which are presupposed to be true. In contrast, verbs such …
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What distinguishes the two cases? The pronouns in (1) appear in positions where one would, in a certain sense, have expected to find a gap. The expectation is reasonable …
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This chapter offers a thorough introduction to nanosyntactic theory, a development of the cartographic program in generative grammar. It discusses the foundations on which …
The empirical focus of this paper is the syntax and semantics of embedded clauses, and in particular, finite object clauses that are weak islands for extraction and incompatible with …
In this dissertation, I investigate the sensitivity of ϕ-agreement to features typically associated with Ā-extraction, including those related to wh-questioning, relativization, focus …
In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the …
Latin Embedded Clauses Page 1 Latin Embedded Clauses The let periphery Lieven Danckaert John Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today 184 Page …
This dissertation investigates the structure and interpretation of noun phrases in Thai and other classifier languages, focusing particular attention on whether Thai contains the same …