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Illicit NP Movement: Locality Conditions on Chains? 1985
One of the major syntactic discoveries of the early 1970s was that in certain central respects, NP movement obeys the same constraints as the process...
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The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory
The central challenge for modern linguistic theory is to develop a model of Universal Grammar that is, on the one hand, general enough to capture the...
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Causatives: From lexicon to syntax
By exploring the correspondences of hacer with ordenar on the one hand, and with hacer itself in simplex structures, we have derived some of the most...
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Structure of VP in Spanish
This chapter deals with the class of verbs in Spanish which have aspectual and copular interpretations, and argues that the structure dominating...
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Nominalizations as Clauses
In this chapter we explore the implications for semantics of the categorial neutralization between N and V in Quechua nominalizations, and argue that...
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Pirahã clitic doubling
The writing of this paper was supported by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and Grant BNS 8405996 from the National...
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Restructuring Constructions
In A Restructuring Rule in Italian Syntax (Rizzi (1978a) henceforth “RRIS”), Rizzi notes that certain verbs taking infinitival complements like...
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Causative Constructions
In this chapter we consider the various constructions one finds with causative and perception verbs. At a descriptive level, we can recognize three...
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Reflexives
In this chapter we examine in detail the syntax of reflexive clitics. In the first of the three sections that follow we address the question — thus...
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The Syntax of Inversion
In this chapter, we will attempt to provide a characterization of inversion, namely of the set of constructions with i-subjects, comparing Italian...
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Rule Properties
This study treats tonal phenomena within the framework of lexical phonology. A basic claim is that tonal representations are derived by applying...