This volume focuses on the interplay between grammatical and pragmatic factors in the
comprehension of lexically communicated meaning. It uses a case-study, modality, in order …

The Mandarin VP deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve
the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative …

The striking parallels across languages in the syntactic expression of “argument structure”
broadly construed has led within generative grammar, at least since Generative Semantics …

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 …

Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal
pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language …

Sentential Negation and Negative Concord Page 1 Sentential Negation and Negative
Concord Page 2 Published by LOT phone: +31.30.2536006 Trans 10 fax: +31.30.2536000 …

This thesis studies movement operations in natural languages. It is observed that certain
heads—C, v, and, in most languages, P—cannot be stranded; the complements of these …

Independent clauses that are semantically related to each other tend to become structurally
connected over time. A coordinator such as and can be used to connect two independent …

This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of
Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on …

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 …