Abstract The Extended Projection Principle (EPP) formalizes the requirement for a subject in
every clause. In this dissertation, I develop a typology of EPP effects based on a sample of …

This article aims to provide an analysis for a curious fact about reduced relative clauses in
Standard English: while full relative clauses permit all forms of inflection, reduced relative …

In this paper it will be argued that the difference between existential and locative sentences
is primarily structurally encoded at the v P/VP level (at the first phase of a derivation). The …

This thesis advances a theoretical move toward a grammatical model devoid of interface
conditions by proposing a novel feature-based structure-building mechanism. In the …

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the
Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Samoan …

Root clauses without an overt subject have often been analyzed as having a phonetically
null but syntactically present pronoun pro. In this dissertation, I investigate constructions in …

This paper examines a type of existential there sentence found in Middle English that has
been argued to have a structure similar to transitive expletive constructions (TECs) in other …

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 26) was
held on May 24-26, 2019 at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). The programme …

1. Cross-linguistically, there is evidence for a close affinity between locative, existential and
possessive sentences (Clark 1970, 1978). In many languages the only difference between …

From Homophony to Unity: Existential closure and a unified account of the English present
participle∗ Page 1 From Homophony to Unity: Existential closure and a unified account of the …