A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical
investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion. In this book, Omer Preminger investigates …

Classical syntactic theory was designed to permit the type of movement called raising to
proceed out of infinitival, but not finite, clauses—a positive result for languages such as …

This dissertation examines the question of why there should be different types of phrasal
movement, with different syntactic and semantic properties. I develop the hypothesis that all …

This article presents novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka, in which the syntax of
successive-cyclic movement is remarkably transparent. We show that Dinka provides strong …

With some 300–500 closely related languages, the Bantu family provides a wealth of
examples for the study of syntactic micro-variation within a set of typologically similar …

Across the languages of the world, we repeatedly find that the extraction of the subject of an
embed ded clause correlates with a reduction in the size of that clause. This generalization …

This thesis explores transparent and opaque interactions of operations in Minimalist syntax
in order to gain insights into the nature of elementary operations and their mode of …

Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their
distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky …

In this dissertation, I investigate the sensitivity of ϕ-agreement to features typically
associated with Ā-extraction, including those related to wh-questioning, relativization, focus …

This paper investigates cross-linguistic variation in raising-to-subject constructions,
proposing a unified account for the derivation of hyper-raising and standard raising. I argue …