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 …

An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order
constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a …

The empirical focus of this paper is what looks like a verb third (V3) pattern in West Flemish
(WF) in which an adverbial modifier (typically a temporal or conditional adjunct) is followed …

This dissertation develops a unified syntax for negation. More particularly, it proposes a
unified account for the differences and similarities between 'sentence negation', as in …

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old
Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the …

The present paper consists of two parts. We first show that the Flemish preverbal morpheme
en in negative sentences differs from superficially similar items in other languages such as …

A crosslinguistic survey of the expression of polarity emphasis reveals that some such
expressions are subject to the distributional constraints typical of main clause phenomena …

Cet ouvrage présente une nouvelle approche originelle à la vielle question de la variation
du ne de négation en français moderne. Soigneusement établie sur un corpus de langue …

The aim of this paper is twofold. We will argue that Flemish/en/has hitherto been
misanalysed, mostly as a marker of negation or polarity, and that a number of its …

This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch
(StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally …