In the enterprise of generative grammar, it has been considered desirable to minimize
assumptions and eliminate redundancy. Following this tradition, Chomsky (1992) proposed …

Aquesta tesi gira a l'entorn del fenomen de l'ascens dels clítics (AC) i la correlació que
estableix amb la reestructuració i el control. Els tres objectius principals són: delimitar l'abast …

This paper traces the development of so-called Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) under
perception, permissive and causative verbs in Romance. Synchronically, we can observe …

Aquesta tesi explora aspectes de la variació microparamètrica que es troba en la
complementació defectiva dels verbs causatius i de percepció en les llengües romàniques …

This dissertation explores the mechanisms behind the linguistic expression of causation in
English, Hiaki (Uto-Aztecan) and Spanish. Pylkkänen's (2002, 2008) analysis of causatives …

The study of linguistic transfer—understood here in terms of the copying of previous
linguistic representations—seeks to reveal how domain-relevant prior language knowledge …

Abstract Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a
pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only …

In Romance languages, causative and perception verbs are found in a biclausal Exceptional
Case Marking (ECM) construction and in two monoclausal faire faire constructions, faire …

This paper considers what happens when clause union meets restructuring by examining
contexts where the causative FACERE verb takes a restructuring verb as its complement in …

The paper deals with the syntax of analytic causative constructions with infinitival and
subjunctive complementation. The study puts special emphasis on the syntactic position of …