A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a
“person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression. This book offers a significant …

This dissertation proposes a novel theory of the phonology-morphology interface called
Optimal Interleaving (OI). OI is based on Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC) …

The aim of this work is to describe the different ways languages express focus and to explain
why languages use exactly these ways. I give a detailed account of focus in three …

A focused constituent contains the most prominent stress of the clause (Selkirk 1984,
Reinhart 1995). Reinhart accounts for this by a PF/LF mapping rule. I extend this view to …

French is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order and clause
structure triggering a variety of important developments in syntactic theory. This is a concise …

High above the clouds of California, I feel an acute sense of loss. Yesterday I walked
through golden hills. The last five years have been full of experiences that I wouldn't have …

Two kinds of framework for stating grammars of natural languages emerged during the 20th
century. Here we call them generative-enumerative syntax (GES) an d model-theoretic …

It is well known that syntax matters to phonology, but does phonology matter to syntax? This
question is controversial, partly because judging whether a phenomenon is syntactic or …

The forms represented orthographically as,,,,,, and have standardly been analyzed as
involving a syntactic rule or cliticization operation called to-contraction. Occasionally it has …

Nous proposons une analyse de l'ordre des adjectifs épithètes par rapport au nom en
français qui dépend crucialement de la notion de Poids syntaxique. Dans notre approche …