This paper gives further support for the claim that the EPP feature in T and ψ‐features
agreement/nominative Case assignment can be fulfilled by different elements. Some …

This book examines some knotty problems in natural language. These typically involve
questions where the sense or the grammaticality of an utterance teeters on or over the edge …

English exhibits PP, AP and NP resultative secondary predicates (SPs). Italian freely exhibits
PP resultatives and, less commonly, AP resultatives. This difference follows from two facts …

This paper discusses a class of grammatical A′-extractions from untensed verbal adjuncts
in English, which appear to contradict the generalisation that adjuncts are islands. Two …

One problem in linguistic theory concerns the way in which a predication relation between a
predicate and its subject (antecedent) is formally licensed by the grammar. The aims of this …

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 …

In this paper we investigate resultative constructions in Italian, German, Dutch, and English,
and also compare them with those in Japanese and Chinese. We pursue a lexical approach …

In some languages with DOM, the exponents of DOM and dative are homophonous, eg in
Spanish and Hindi. I argue that this pattern is not due to DOM objects and indirect objects …

This paper investigates the geometry of phi-features, with a special emphasis on number
and gender in Spanish. We address two sets of questions:(i) are number and gender …

This article provides with a state of the art of how the Individual Level/Stage Level distinction–
and the related but distinct issue of the distribution of ser/estar–is instantiated in Spanish …