A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating
and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program …

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 …

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 …

Fragmentary utterances such as 'short'answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic
antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis …

This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program.
Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives and that their properties follow …

This article raises the question of why Romance" special" clitics (in the sense of Zwicky
(1976)) get placed where they do. I want to justify this answer: the syntax of specificity and …

I argue that definite descriptions, pronouns and proper names share one common syntax
and semantics, basically that of definite descriptions. E-type pronouns are argued to be …

This thesis is concerned with developing a syntax for coordinate structures which is
compatible with both the syntactic behaviour of conjunction structures and with their …

Independent clauses that are semantically related to each other tend to become structurally
connected over time. A coordinator such as and can be used to connect two independent …

The article proposes a new theory of successive-cyclic movement that reconciles the early
and the current minimalist approaches to it. As in the early approach, there is no feature …