Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses
the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to …

This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of
language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of …

By analogy with the movement analysis of temporal clauses, some authors have proposed
that conditional clauses be derived by leftward operator movement (Bhatt and Pancheva …

This article explores a syntactic approach to the Person Case Constraint, a ban on 1st/2nd
person agreement caused by a dative. The approach proposes that the constraint is due to …

In Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus, David Goldstein offers the first
theoretically-informed study of second-position clitics in Ancient Greek and challenges the …

We propose a theory of head displacement that replaces traditional Head Movement and
Lowering with a single syntactic operation of Generalized Head Movement. We argue that …

This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report
present-time situations. It begins from the assumption that there is a restriction on the use of …

We propose a theory of the person restrictions in clitic double object constructions, a
phenomenon known as the Person Case Constraint (PCC). In our proposal, the PCC is …

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to spend four wonderful years at the Center for
Language and Cognition in Groningen and to be able to work on this thesis (besides other …

This article reviews some of the principal patterns of morphosyntactic variation within Daco-
Romanian and across Daco-Romance in support of a distinction between low vs high V …