Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses
the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to …

The starting point of this paper is the observation that English temporal and conditional
clauses resist argument fronting. The first part of the paper discusses the empirical and …

The empirical focus of this paper is the syntax and semantics of embedded clauses, and in
particular, finite object clauses that are weak islands for extraction and incompatible with …

Starting from a consideration of the internal make-up of adverbial clauses this paper shows
that the widespread assumption that fronted arguments in English and CLLD constituents in …

Certain English constructions permit two syntactic alternations.(1) a. I looked up the number.
b. I looked the number up.(2) a. He is often at the office. b. He often is at the office. This study …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to
teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. Helps …

The present book is the revised version of my PhD thesis that I submitted and defended in
2006 at Philipps-University Marburg. First and foremost, I wish to express my deep gratitude …

Previous studies on relative clauses have mostly dealt with the restrictive/non-restrictive
dichotomy, focusing on the differences from a syntactic point of view. In particular, non …

This article explores the interface between syntactic structure and information structure–in
particular, the broad generalizations that can be made between certain noncanonical word …