Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments
within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes …

A restrictive theory of syntax needs both a restrictive theory of structures and a restrictive
theory of operations. Much recent effort has gone into narrowing the class of allowable …

To remind the reader, the data description in chapter three revealed the following picture.
There are two main reasons for word order variation in Russian. First, the base order can be …

This paper investigates a morpheme central to the clausal syntax of Kîîtharaka (SVO, Bantu,
E54, Kenyan). The first sections of the paper offer a careful description of three functions of …

On the occasion of the completion of this book, I would like to pay tribute to Louise Bennett–
our “Queen of Patois”, who recently passed away (July 2006). Louise Bennett-Coverly was …

Editorial board: Carlo Geraci, Rachel McKee, Victoria Nyst, Marianne Rossi Stumpf, Felix
Sze, Sandra Wood Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has …

Different languages typically adopt different ways to answer the same question concerning
the identification of the subject of the clause, when the answer is provided through a full …

Anti-pied-piping is a widespread but understudied phenomenon where a language targets a
proper subpart of the logical focus for focus morphosyntax: for example, focus particle …

I have argued in recent work (Belletti 2008) that the CP of cleft sentences has some peculiar
properties, the crucial ones being the following two: i. it is a reduced CP; ii. the reduced CP …

Based on interface evidence, this paper shows that the interpretation of discourse categories
relies on syntactic conditions. Specifically, the existence of a systematic connection between …