In this book John A. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are
structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence …

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 …

In this article, I address the issue of head movement in current linguistic theory. I propose a
new view of the nature of heads and head movement that reveals that head movement is …

In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant
contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful …

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 …

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is
fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical …

Finnish exhibits an unusual combination of properties relating to'the subject':(a) it is a null-
subject language,(b) it has obligatory expletives,(c) it is topic-prominent in the sense that the …

In Finnish a yes/no‐question is normally answered by repeating the finite verb or auxiliary,
optionally followed by a string of nonfinite verbs and certain adverbs. The claim is that these …

Degree heads combine with individual (John is taller than [Mary]) as well as clausal
arguments (John is taller than [Mary is]). Does the degree head have the same meaning in …

Serbo-Croatian (SC) is a language with very free word order; almost any permutation of
words in a sentence is allowed. There are surprising exceptions to this: clitics and multiple …