This paper reviews the differences between predicational and specificational copular
sentences in the realm of (pseudo-) cleft constructions, and proposes an analysis which …

Synopsis Organizado pelos professores Dante Lucchesi e Ilza Ribeiro, da Universidade
Federal da Bahia, e pelo professor Allan Baxter, da Universidade de Macau, teve a …

This monograph investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Alemannic and Dutch
where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, ie not transformationally, related to the position …

The identity of phasal boundaries has mostly been considered in light of minimal CP-TP-vP-
VP structures. The question this paper addresses is where the clause-internal phase …

This thesis is a study of the Wolof clausal periphery, focusing on the morphosyntax of the two
layers commonly identified as CP and TP. It has long been noted that C and T are not …

In the present paper I discuss some of the kinds of evidence we can find in historical texts for
the emergence of grammatical constructions, and the kinds of discourse contexts in which …

The main question that this paper addresses is: what happens to non-finite auxiliaries under
English VP ellipsis (VPE)? Do they remain overt like finite auxiliaries, or do they disappear …

In this paper we investigate cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of copular clauses,
focusing on agreement patterns in binominal structures [NP1 BE NP2]. Our starting point is …

This thesis presents a study of (long-distance) restrictive relative clauses (RCs) and related
constructions in Dutch. RCs have always featured prominently in linguistic theory, as a result …

In recent years there has been considerable interest in accounting for motivations for
change: the ''why''of change. 1 Attention has been paid to various aspects of diagrammatic …