This thesis studies movement operations in natural languages. It is observed that certain
heads—C, v, and, in most languages, P—cannot be stranded; the complements of these …

According to an Aristotelian view maintained in modern linguistics, a sentence consists of a
predicate, a subject and some indication of tense. This work attempts a principled and …

This book is about Acadian French, a dialect of French which developed from the centre-
ouest varieties of France spoken by the original French colonists of Atlantic Canada. Today …

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 …

In this study, we investigate whether preposition stranding, a stereotypical non-standard
feature of North American French, results from convergence with English, and the role of …

This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition,
processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so …

I argue that there is little evidence that chiac, an often stigmatized variety of Acadian French
spoken in the urban area of Moncton, New Brunswick, differs dramatically from a number of …

Loin de l'influence du français de France et du parler québécois, le parler acadien a évolué
selon ses propres lois. Aujourd'hui les Acadiens demeurent dans les provinces atlantiques …

We are most grateful to our commentators for their careful reading of our Keynote Article
(henceforth KA) and their incisive observations on contact-induced change, and for the …

The crosslinguistic distribution of preposition stranding by A movement in pseudopassive
constructions matches that of a marked A'phenomenon, namely extraction from Bare Present …