The phenomenon of grammaticalization-the historical process whereby new grammatical
material is created-has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. This is an attempt …

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 …

Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-
negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means …

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" …

Recent research on the syntax of Arabic has produced valuable literature on the major
syntactic phenomena found in the language. This guide to Arabic syntax provides an …

In this paper we present some results from an experimental study that we have been
conducting into the effects of syntactic attrition on the L1 of Greek and Italian speakers who …

REVIEWS849 between the syntactic position of an element and its semantic scope might
arise from different syntactic and semantic parses of the same elements rather than from …

The main claim of this paper is that a general theory of negative concord (NC) should allow
for the possibility of NC involving sco** of a universal quantifier above negation. I propose …

This book explores the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar'.
From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework put forward by Chomsky …

Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a
phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the …