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 …

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

The starting point of this paper is the observation that English temporal and conditional
clauses resist argument fronting. The first part of the paper discusses the empirical and …

The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across a range of theoretical
frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals …

Proposing a novel theory of parts of speech, this book discusses categorization from a
methodological and theoretical point a view. It draws on discoveries and insights from a …

Starting from a consideration of the internal make-up of adverbial clauses this paper shows
that the widespread assumption that fronted arguments in English and CLLD constituents in …

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to
teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. Helps …

This paper sheds new light on the conditions governingextraction from NPs. A close
examination of wh-extraction out of object NPs reveals thatpreviously unnoticed semantic …

We reexamine cases of coordinated elements that do not match in syntactic category. We
show that these fall into two types. The first type includes predicates, modifiers in the clausal …

I propose that a moved clausal complement must involve a DP structure headed by a covert
determiner. This proposal explains the fact that the base-generated position of a moved …