Whether the operation Agree should be taken to underlie anaphoric binding has been the
topic of much recent debate. In this paper, we provide a novel empirical argument in favor of …

Traditional approaches to verbal periphrasis (compound tenses) treat auxiliary verbs as
lexical items that enter syntactic derivation like any other lexical item, via Selection/Merge …

In this paper, we analyse Motion Verb Constructions (MVCs) in southern Italian dialects,
especially in Sicily and Apulia, which provide an ideal illustration of morphosyntactic …

This thesis is a study of the syntax of multi-verb constructions, in which a single clause
contains more than one verbal element. Multi-verb constructions are of special interest in …

This dissertation focuses on long object movement (LOM), which is a type of A-movement
from the embedded object position inside an infinitive to the matrix subject position. In the …

1.1 Background Distributed Morphology (DM) has only begun to be systematically applied to
problems of historical morphology and diachronic reanalysis in the past 10–15 years, but …

Subject-verb agreement in φ-features has been treated as a relation between the subject
and some functional category in the clausal spine (Infl, Agr, T). I argue that such severing of …

This paper examines two types of light-verb (LV) constructions in Ndebele (Bantu,
Zimbabwe), which differ in the form of the main, lexical verb. In one type, the main verb is a …

An examination of the syntactic and morphological properties of motion verb constructions
(MVCs)(Cruschina 2013, Cruschina & Calabrese 2021), ie, constructions that are composed …

Agreement in Cinyungwe verb-verb constructions Page 1 Página | 11 Abstract The leading
idea within the Minimalist Program is that there is a relationship between Case and …