El objetivo de esta tesis es explorar la Teoría de Fases de Chomsky (cf. Chomsky 2000;
2001; 2004; 2005; 2007; en preparación) y sus conexiones con la variación paramétrica. El …

This work investigates a series of phenomena that shed light on the analysis of attitudes de
se. We adopt Lewis'(1979) proposal that attitudes de se involve self-ascription of a property …

In this paper, we propose that when any two syntactic units are combined by the operation
Merge, a" probe-goal" relation (Chomsky 2000; 2001) must be established between these …

The main claim of this paper is that while the core function of the category INFL is universally
fixed, its substantive feature content is not. The dissociation of INFL from its features …

In a partial control configuration the denotation of the controller is properly included in the
understood subject of the infinitive. This paper proposes a compositional semantics for …

The role of structural case in syntax is arguably one of the most controversial topics in
syntactic theory with important implications for semantic theory. This book focuses on some …

Abstract Landau (2000) distinguishes between P (artial) C (ontrol) and E (xhaustive) C
(ontrol): PC predicates like hope admit a subset relation between controller and controllee …

This work examines multiple-modal constructions in Mandarin Chinese. It is shown that
modals in Mandarin Chinese are ordered in specific ways, and, while a number of factors …

On paper, they differ in one symbol, but semantically and structurally they show interesting
similarities and differences. Both involve an obligatory interpretational dependency between …

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the nature of finiteness and A-
movement by looking at control phenomena in Japanese, where verbal morphology …