A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-
standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory …

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 …

There are a number of phenomena where an apparent animacy requirement exceptionally
admits some inanimate causers as felicitous. In this paper I argue that these should be …

Unlike belief and desire reports, intention reports (eg John intends to leave soon) are not
well studied in formal semantics. This article aims to begin to fill this gap, focusing on …

This paper addresses the interaction between morphology and syntax in cases where the
morphological realization of a structure appears to determine its grammaticality. The …

The verb láta 'let/make'in Icelandic provides a unique opportunity to understand the behavior
of symmetric versus asymmetric DAT-NOM constructions. In this paper, I take a close look at …

Central to this study is a question of how the conceptual distinction between direct and
indirect causation is manifested in the grammar of natural languages. Since the early years …

The hyperintensional South Slavic involuntary state/FEEL-LIKE construction is interesting in
that it is restricted to a peculiar syntactic frame (dative subject and reflexive-impersonal or …

It is a common observation that language is limited in the kinds of events it may encode in a
single clause. Vendler (1957) posits that the most complex event descriptions …

Composing associated motion in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec Page 1 Composing associated
motion in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec∗ Jack Duff — UC Santa Cruz — jduff@ucsc.edu WCCFL …