Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses
the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to …

This book began as conversations that took place as the alphabetically prior author was
writing his doctoral dissertation at Stanford University. Geography and complex personal …

1.1 Two Conceptions of Grammar The reader may wonder, why would a college offer
courses on grammar–a topic that is usually thought of as part of junior high school …

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 book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

1Above all, I'd like to thank Paul Kay for hours of discussion and useful feedback at every
stage in the seemingly endless process of writing this chapter. I'm also grateful to Chuck …

The paper focuses on the difference between event‐conditionals and premise‐conditionals.
An event‐conditional contributes to event structure: it modifies the main clause event; a …

In this book, I presented analyses for auxiliaries, subject and object control verbs, subject
and object raising verbs, copula constructions, subject and object predicative constructions …

This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena.
Pronominal resumption is the realization of the base of a syntactic dependency as a bound …

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 …