The French clitic system has posed a persistent challenge to transformational syntactic
analysis, which has never produced a successful account of problems such as elitic …

With the advent of functional as well as lexical structure within the noun phrase, there exists
much syntactic structure that appears to be unused. While there has been discussion as to …

The grammatical status of Romance pronominal clitics has long been the object of intense
debate. Are they syntactically-independent arguments or are they affixal agreement …

This thesis examines the phrase structure of Modern Persian. The general goal is to account
for the structure of simple clauses in Persian using a small number of principles that are as …

The thesis offers a description and analysis of the DP in the Eastern Indo-Aryan language
Bangla (Bengali). In particular, it re-establishes the dominant theme in the DP literature of …

This paper explores the relationship between word order and focus positions in Hindi-Urdu,
Malayalam, Western Bade and Tangale. Characterizations of positional focus in terms of a …

This work challenges some prevalent claims and assumptions about Persian syntax and
offers an alternative account. The standard assumption regarding the direct objects in …

This article provides an analysis of participial constructions in English, within the feature-
checking approach to inflectional morphology. It argues for a unified treatment of the perfect …

The paper provides evidence for the analysis of Romance clitics as agreement markers, in
accordance with analyses such as Rizzi 1986, Kaiser 1992, Kaiser & Meisel 1992, Suñer …

Almost all formal accounts of clitic ordering, from Perlmutter (1971) to Grimshaw (2001) have
accepted without question the assumption that clitic clusters always appear in a rigidly fixed …