This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of
Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We discuss some of the …

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations
from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative …

An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison,
combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the …

On the basis of a number of cases where the status of X with respect to phasehood changes
depending on the syntactic context in which X occurs, I argue for a contextual approach to …

In this volume Silvio Cruschina uses a comparative analysis to determine the syntax of the
functional projections associated with discourse-related features, and to account for the …

This book is the result of investigations on different aspects of Chomsky's framework of
phases. Earlier versions of the core ideas that can be found in the following pages were …

A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its
empirical consequences. In A Syntax of Substance, David Adger proposes a new approach …

This article shows that a version of the Condition on Extraction Domain (Huang 1982) can
be derived from the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC; Chomsky 2001, 2008) if the …

This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns. Through a
detailed analysis of simplex and complex anaphors in Dutch and English, as well as other …

Locality constraints on displacement as they have been proposed over the last decades
(since Chomsky (1964) and Ross (1967)) have been highly successful from an empirical …