A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical
investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion. In this book, Omer Preminger investigates …

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in
the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of …

In this article I will attempt to shed some light on a few systematic differences between
French and English with respect to the syntax of sentence negation, questions, adverbs …

We argue that head movement, as an operation that builds head-adjunction structures in the
syntax, has been used to model two empirically distinct classes of phenomena. One class …

A formal approach to the typology of differential object marking (DOM) is developed within
the framework of Optimality Theory. The functional/typological literature has established that …

This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, morphology and
semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently …

The paper investigates a number of asymmetries in the behavior of subjects in Germanic,
Celtic/Arabic, Romance, and Greek. The languages under investigation divide into two main …

This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One
involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the" logical" …

This article raises the question of why Romance" special" clitics (in the sense of Zwicky
(1976)) get placed where they do. I want to justify this answer: the syntax of specificity and …

This thesis studies movement operations in natural languages. It is observed that certain
heads—C, v, and, in most languages, P—cannot be stranded; the complements of these …