This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and
argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the …

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson
analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western …

This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how
languages change. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the …

Research on the syntactic bahavior of subject-like obliques in the Germanic languages does
not support the axiomatic assumption in the literature that these arguments have developed …

This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including
verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-) occurrence of null …

1Above all, I'd like to thank Paul Kay for hours of discussion and useful feedback at every
stage in the seemingly endless process of writing this chapter. I'm also grateful to Chuck …

In this article it is argued that long-term drifts that destroy grammatical strategies a language
disposes of in its functional domains are not as detrimental as one might think, thanks to a …

From the evidence of the earliest Indo-European documents, it is obvious that all the modern
Indo-European languages show, in varying degrees, the result of a typological revolution …

Icelandic case agreement suggests that nominative case is active in PRO infinitives in much
the same way as in finite clauses, thus posing a difficult and a long-standing problem for …

This article discusses A-licensing and case from a minimalist perspective, pursuing the idea
that argument NPs cyclically enter a number of A-relations, rather than just a single one …