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 …

In what follows I would like to show how the articulated functional structure of the clause
suggested in Cinque (1999) may shed new light on the “restructuring” phenomenon (Rizzi …

In certain types of infinitival complementation constructions in three quite dissimilar
languages (German, Japanese, and Itelmen) expected interpretations curiously, but …

This paper presents and discusses criteria for distinguishing between lexical and functional
heads in the clausal domain, with special focus on restructuring configurations (aka …

Verbs can be introduced (merged) in either a lexical VP or a functional head, the latter
position giving rise to restructuring contexts. We argue that there are two clitic positions in …

The distinction between lexical and functional elements is a central one in current
grammatical theory. 1 This distinction is often based on the assumption that the two different …

Restructuring or clause union phenomena provide an interesting testing ground for the
composition of the voice domain. 1 Restructuring refers to complex predicate constructions …

Abstract Landau (2000) distinguishes between P (artial) C (ontrol) and E (xhaustive) C
(ontrol): PC predicates like hope admit a subset relation between controller and controllee …

The theoretical focus of my thesis is the methodology of establishing the hierarchy of
functional projections. I argue that four factors influence the hierarchy: mapping to …

This dissertation investigates the structure and interpretation of noun phrases in Thai and
other classifier languages, focusing particular attention on whether Thai contains the same …