This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, morphology and
semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently …

This book is concerned with anticausative verbs, ie, the intransitive version of verbs that
undergo the causative alternation. The main topic is the investigation of the so-called …

While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction,
it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there …

In a range of Indo-European languages (Romance, Albanian, Iranian, Indo-Aryan), the same
oblique case ('dative') is associated with indirect objects and with animate/definite direct …

This paper proposes a unified analysis of all uses of main verb have, including causative
and experiencer readings, alienable and inalienable possession, the locational reading …

Unlike full noun phrases, weak and null pronouns typically cannot procrastinate: they cannot
move at LF. Taking this as its starting point, this paper addresses the behaviour of English …

This study offers an overview of the main classes of German datives, arguing that most of
them are interpreted in exactly the same way as subjects of English have, a result expressed …

homophonous with the 3rd person singular neuter pronoun. Nevertheless, the verb does not
agree with the expletive; rather, it agrees with the plural associate.'(3) a. Es* ist/sind wohl …

This dissertation is fundamentally about the place of thematic roles in the architecture of the
grammar. One contemporary viewpoint takes thematic roles to be formal features present in …

Our focus in this paper is on those Romance and Germanic languages which exhibit
alternation of 'have'and 'be'('auxiliary selection') according to verb class. In these closely …