This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at
the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free …

The quantificational system in Japanese makes use of so-called indeterminate pronouns,
which take on existential, universal, interrogative, negative polarity, or free choice …

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers,
drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish …

In this article I discuss the selection and assembly of formal features in second language
acquisition. Assembling the particular lexical items of a second language (L2) requires that …

The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one
that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under …

This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link
positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations …

This monograph constitutes a complete revision and considerable extension of my doctoral
dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College …

The paper provides a semantic analysis of intervention effects in wh-questions. The
interpretation component of the grammar derives uninterpretability, hence ungrammaticality …

An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also
work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual …

1.1. The study of constraints in grammar has been one of the most persistent topics in
generative studies. Among the most important results of this enterprise is a set of locality …