The subject of nonfinite clauses is often missing, and yet is understood to refer to some
linguistic or contextual referent (eg'Bill preferred __ to remain silent'is understood as' Bill …

A longstanding claim in the literature holds that by phrases are special in the passive,
receiving certain external argument roles that by phrases in nominals cannot, such as the …

Elided VPs and their antecedent VPs can mismatch in voice, with passive VPs being elided
under apparent identity with active antecedent VPs, and vice versa. Such voice mismatches …

A number of recent accounts for vague terms postulate a kind of context-sensitivity, one that
kicks in after the usual 'external'contextual factors like comparison class are established and …

Abstract Since Wasow (1977), the differences between adjectival and verbal passives in
English have been taken to motivate a division between lexical and syntactic word-formation …

Although they participate in control relations, implicit arguments are standardly viewed as
unprojected ϑ-roles, absent from the syntax. I challenge this view and argue that implicit …

Syntactic theory, in its broadest sense, is concerned primarily with the ways in which
individual lexical items combine to compose hierarchical structures, and with the …

This book brings a basic yet detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations to bear on the
general theoretical and architectural issues that nominalizations have raised since the …

This dissertation investigates the structure of the noun phrase in Serbo-Croatian (SC) and
cross-linguistically and argues that DP is not universal.^ Chapters 2 and 3 examine the …

Imagine that Ann, asked to name her favorite treat, answers: 1. Licorice is tasty Imagine that
Ben, having hidden some licorice in the cupboard, whispers to Ann: 2. There might be …