Annotation This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the
distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as …

" This book considers important aspects of the syntax of sentences and their relation to the
extra-sentential context. The relations between a sentence and the context is frequently …

I discuss the semantics and syntax of a phenomenon often called ''lexical subordination''and
here called ''conflation,''in which a VP with a single verb expresses both an activity and a …

The role of structural case in syntax is arguably one of the most controversial topics in
syntactic theory with important implications for semantic theory. This book focuses on some …

A new theory of argument structure, based on the syntactic operation Merge and presented
through an in-depth analysis of properties of the English passive construction. In Principles …

Aquesta tesi tracta de les propietats relacionals de la sintaxi i la semàntica de l'estructura
argumental. En especial, estudio la relació entre l'estructura argumental i la descomposició …

English and French are configurational languages, in the sense that the grammatical
functions of subject and object consistently appear in particular phrase structure …

This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a
Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well …

In this paper we investigate resultative constructions in Italian, German, Dutch, and English,
and also compare them with those in Japanese and Chinese. We pursue a lexical approach …