This 1999 textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point
of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a …

Starting with the idea that the notion “pronoun” is not a primitive of linguistic theory, we
propose that it is necessary to recognize (at least) three pronoun types: pro-DP, pro-fP, and …

In this book, Holmberg and Platzack present a theory of the role which subject-verb
agreement and case morphology play in syntax. Their theory is based mainly on a detailed …

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This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Conger language family, which includes most
of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the …

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the consequences of what we might call the
Zwart/Kayne view for Old English (OE) and, in particular, for the word-order changes that …

Concord within DP argues that movement is driven by uninterpretable features of either the
target or the moved item, contra Chomsky 1995. The uninterpretable f-features of which …

In this article, we argue that a structural distinction between predicational and equative
copular clauses is illusory. All semantic predicational relationships are constructed …

The goal of this paper is to give a general overview of recent studies on the syntax of
determiners, particularly in Romance, Germanic and Balkan languages, which can shed …

Names, descriptions, and demonstratives raise well-known logical, ontological, and
epistemological problems. Perhaps less well known, among philosophers at least, are the …