The subject of nonfinite clauses is often missing, and yet is understood to refer to some
linguistic or contextual referent (eg'Bill preferred __ to remain silent'is understood as' Bill …

A longstanding claim in the literature holds that by phrases are special in the passive,
receiving certain external argument roles that by phrases in nominals cannot, such as the …

This book is concerned with anticausative verbs, ie, the intransitive version of verbs that
undergo the causative alternation. The main topic is the investigation of the so-called …

We argue that crosslinguistic variation regarding verbal reflexivization is parametric,
reflecting a broader lexicon-syntax parameter: arity operations—operations on θ-roles …

I should clarify at the outset what I mean by the term parser. I take this to refer specifically to
tht: structure building system that it used in sentence recognition, and not to the many other …

Aquesta tesi tracta de les propietats relacionals de la sintaxi i la semàntica de l'estructura
argumental. En especial, estudio la relació entre l'estructura argumental i la descomposició …

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from
the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic …

The specific problem I address in this study is what makes it possible for the same lexical
verb entry to be realized in dramatically different syntactic configurations. But it turned out to …

Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in more recent years,
European dialects have'levelled', making it difficult to distinguish a native of Reading from a …

Reference to non-overt arguments has been made in the description of a wide range of
syntactic phenomena. Some of them (PRO, pro, A/A′-traces) are relatively well understood …