Independent clauses that are semantically related to each other tend to become structurally
connected over time. A coordinator such as and can be used to connect two independent …

This book is the result of investigations on different aspects of Chomsky's framework of
phases. Earlier versions of the core ideas that can be found in the following pages were …

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 …

In this paper, I discuss the relevance of the decomposition of CP for the syntax of adverbial
clauses. I will show that conjunctions introducing adverbial clauses, such as if, while and …

This article shows that a version of the Condition on Extraction Domain (Huang 1982) can
be derived from the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC; Chomsky 2001, 2008) if the …

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 …

This article presents novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka, in which the syntax of
successive-cyclic movement is remarkably transparent. We show that Dinka provides strong …

The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch
dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using two case studies, Van …

This thesis explores transparent and opaque interactions of operations in Minimalist syntax
in order to gain insights into the nature of elementary operations and their mode of …

Resumpti e prolepsis. A stud in indirect A'-dependencies Page 1 Resumpti e prolepsis. A stud in
indirect A'-dependencies Salzmann, M. Citation Salzmann, M. (2006, October 19). . LOT, Utrecht …