I argue that definite descriptions, pronouns and proper names share one common syntax
and semantics, basically that of definite descriptions. E-type pronouns are argued to be …

This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

This study extends two ideas of the minimalist program in linguistic theory (Chomsky 1992,
1994, 1995a)(LF feature decomposition and elimination of D-structure), and explores …

This article investigates the interaction between resumption and movement. Lebanese
Arabic distinguishes between true resumption, where a pronoun or an epithet phrase is …

I demonstrate that the null object construction (NOC) in Japanese cannot be analyzed on a
par with VP-ellipsis (VPE) in English, contrary to the suggestion made in Huang 1988, 1991 …

The behavior of various types of anaphors may be classified according to a two-way contrast
with regard to locality and an antecedence property known as subject orientation. The …

This dissertation investigates the structural and interpretive aspects of the Head-Internal
Relative Clause (henceforth, HIRC) construction and the Head-External Relative Clause …

In this paper, we present a theory of discourse management, based on a version of Mental
Space Theory, modified to accommodate dialogic discourse by incorporating a memory …

This thesis investigates how prosodic phrasing influences listeners' interpretation of scopally
ambiguous wh-questions in Japanese. It focuses on sentences such as that in (1), in which …

This paper aims to illustrate how we might proceed to attain repeatability and falsifiability in
generative grammar, on the basis of discussion of concrete empirical materials in Japanese …