Business process management (BPM), business process reengineering (BPR), and
business process innovation (BPI) have been the primary strategies adopted by several …

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known
as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of …

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 …

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective,
perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The …

Imperatives may be interpreted with many subvarieties of directive force, for example as
orders, invitations, or pieces of advice. I argue that the range of meanings that imperatives …

Crosslinguistically, the same modal words can be used to express a wide range of
interpretations. This crosslinguistic trend supports a Kratzerian analysis, where each modal …

Finite clausal arguments differ from other arguments—and other CPs—in two fundamental
ways:(a) they do not move leftward (,,,) and (b) they may combine with nouns that do not …

This dissertation examines the syntax and semantics of clausal complements. It identifies
semantic underpinnings for some syntactic properties of the arguments of propositional …