This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural
language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical …

Generating Copies: An investigation into structural identity in language and grammar Page 1
University of California Los Angeles Generating Copies: An investigation into structural identity …

I completed my UCLA dissertation in 2006. This book is a thoroughly revised version of that
work. Although I have retained the overall structure and analytical spirit of my thesis, I have …

This article centers around two questions: What is the relation between movement and
structure sharing, and how can complex syntactic structures be linearized? It is shown that …

This article discusses the nature of the operation Merge, and the possibility of
unconventional mergers, with some attention to the issue of representation. Regular Merge …

In this paper, we develop a new typology of multiple wh-questions with coordinated wh-
pronouns. We motivate the existence of three distinct structures for such questions: one …

This chapter examines a construction known as Right Node Raising (RNR). There are many
questions that RNR raises, and perhaps the most widely debated ones concern the position …

In this paper I argue that a stricture in which Merge between a root and another element
must take place across the smallest search domain possible. Only when the smallest search …

Merger of a phrase for the second time (ie remerge) leads to structure sharing, which can be
represented by a multidominance graph. Depending on the configuration, this corresponds …

Minimalist grammars cannot provide adequate descriptions of constructions in which a
single filler saturates two mutually independent gaps, as is commonly analyzed to be the …