This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations
from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative …

An argument that the word order of a given language is largely predictable from
independently observable facts about its phonology and morphology. Languages differ in …

There is a tension between Chomsky's recent Minimalist theory and the cartographic
program initiated by Cinque. Cinque's cartography argues for a large number of fine-grained …

We argue for a uniformly upward-probing implementation of Agree (Upward Agree, UA),
showing that it can account for a wide range of long-distance agreement phenomena …

This dissertation examines the question of why there should be different types of phrasal
movement, with different syntactic and semantic properties. I develop the hypothesis that all …

This article investigates the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC): a head-initial category
cannot be the immediate structural complement of a head-final category within the same …

A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-
standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory …

This paper proposes that morphological selection and subcategorization are derived from
conditions on Merge, specifically the claim that Merge is only possible when it leads to …

Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their
distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky …

In this thesis, I examine some core grammatical phenomena-case licensing, agreement, the
EPP-through the lens of the Bantu language Zulu. Zulu has a number of remarkable and …