The dissertation summarized here provides an account of the fact that young children
acquiring English (around age 2) often produce utterances like (1), in which they omit a form …

There is a tension between Chomsky's recent Minimalist theory and the cartographic
program initiated by Cinque. Cinque's cartography argues for a large number of fine-grained …

Aquesta tesi tracta de les propietats relacionals de la sintaxi i la semàntica de l'estructura
argumental. En especial, estudio la relació entre l'estructura argumental i la descomposició …

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of
locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central …

Most syntacticians, no matter their theoretical persuasion, agree that features (types or
categories) are the most important units of analysis. Within Chomskyan generative grammar …

This article surveys empirical and theoretical work on Tense‐Aspect‐Mood (''TAM'') based
split ergativity, and offers an account for how it arises. While these splits are typically …

This dissertation is concerned with the broad question of why auxiliary verbs occur in natural
language. Much previous work has assumed that the occurrence of auxiliary verbs is …

The central goal of this article is to argue that functional categories are universally
associated with a core function but that their substantive content is subject to variation. We …

Individuals in Time Page 1 Individuals in Time Tense, aspect and the individual/stage
distinction María J. Arche John Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics …