Modifiers and modification have been a major focus of inquiry for as long as the formal study
of semantics has existed, and remain at the heart of major theoretical debates in the field …

Phase Theory is the latest empirical and conceptual innovation in syntactic theory within the
Chomskyan generative tradition. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, this book provides …

An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order
constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a …

The first attempt at a restrictive theory of the linear order of sentences and phrases of the
world's languages, by one of the founders of cartographic syntax. Linearization, or the typical …

This paper discusses the synchronic and diachronic syntactic properties of pseudo-partitives-
see (2). I assume that the first noun of such structures (ie the measure element …

The fact that even the most rigid head-final and head-initial languages show inconsistencies
and, more crucially, that the very languages which come closest to the ideal types (the “rigid” …

A Noun Phrase (NP) is a syntactic unit (constituent) resulting from expanding a lexical noun
(the head of the NP) by the addition of a variety of arguments and modifiers (collectively …

In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention
due to their apparently idiosyncratic behaviour, as both nouns and adjectives at the same …

This paper is a preliminary study of the Slovenian article-like element ta, typically called
the'colloquial definite article'(Toporišič 2000, Orešnik 1994, Herrity 2000), which is …

This paper discusses the Slovenian word TA, which is in some ways reminiscent of the
standard definite articles known from many European languages, but has several atypical …