This is a revised and updated version of Butt (2003), which noted that the study of light verbs
and complex predicates is frought with dangers and misunderstandings that go beyond the …

Most Slavic prefixes can be assigned to one of two large cate-gories, lexical and
superlexical. The lexical prefixes are like Germanic particles, in having resultative meanings …

This article shows that a version of the Condition on Extraction Domain (Huang 1982) can
be derived from the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC; Chomsky 2001, 2008) if the …

The Person Case Constraint is frequently concomitant with Case Syncretism. We provide a
syntax‐driven account of both phenomena that relies on the dual role that φ‐features play in …

In this paper, I draw on data from prefixation in Russian to argue for a basic distinction
between event structure and temporal struc-ture. I present a linguistic semantics of verb and …

In this paper, we analyse the formation of goal of motion interpretation in English and Italian.
We argue that contrary to what has been argued, both languages do form goal of motion …

We examine the three categories of empirical argument that Landau (2003) puts forward
against a movement theory of control (MTC): overgeneration cases, alleged arguments in …

Locality constraints on displacement as they have been proposed over the last decades
(since Chomsky (1964) and Ross (1967)) have been highly successful from an empirical …

This paper is intended to justify the classification of all the Rus-sian prefixes into lexical and
superlexical. It gives semantic and syntactic criteria for distinguishing between the two …

[eng] In this dissertation I put forth a syntactic theory of argument structure and the
syntaxmorphology interface and I apply it mainly to Early and Classical Latin, although …