The chapter collected here represent some of the work carried out in the period 2002-2007
by the group working on the project “Null Subjects and the Structure of Parametric Theory” …

This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how
languages change. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the …

What do you know, if you know that a language has' Object Verb'structure rather than'Verb
Object'? Answering this question and many others, this book provides an essential guide to …

This article investigates the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC): a head-initial category
cannot be the immediate structural complement of a head-final category within the same …

While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction,
it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there …

Proposing a novel theory of parts of speech, this book discusses categorization from a
methodological and theoretical point a view. It draws on discoveries and insights from a …

Optionality in movement operations is widely held to be fundamentally incompatible with a
feature-driven approach to displacement in which movement must be triggered and …

An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order
constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a …

This article offers a critical conceptual discussion and refinement of Chomsky's (2000, 2001,
2007, 2008) phase system, addressing many of the problematic aspects highlighted in the …

This article presents a novel 'Kaynian'analysis of Old and Middle English (OE and ME) word-
order patterns in terms of which the patterns attested at the various stages of OE and ME are …