A central issue in the theory of clause types is whether force is represented in the syntax.
Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we examine this question focusing on a …

This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

The main hypothesis of this paper is that certain exclamative constructions in Catalan (que-
exclamatives) involve a null degree operator. It is shown that, when this analysis combines …

Im Folgenden trete ich dafür ein, die Rechtsversetzung nicht als eine einheitliche
Konstruktion zu analysieren, sondern vielmehr zwischen „Rechtsversetzung “im engeren …

This dissertation is a case study of the syntax of the left periphery, using exclamatives in
English and Japanese. In the first part, I discuss exclamatives in Japanese in detail by …

1 Background Grimshaw (1979) and many subsequent authors have described the
distribution of complements exemplified in (1)-(4) by assuming that lexical entries not only …

Esta tesis pretende dar una explicación del fenómeno de la polaridad positiva en español,
es decir, de la incompatibilidad que presentan ciertos elementos, los denominados términos …

The study presented in this paper has two aims. First, it establishes pragmasemantic
features of exclamations and exclamatives relying on three formulated approaches–a …

1 Background This paper discusses two generalizations (see Grimshaw 1979) concerning
question embedding predicates. The examples in (1) reveal that predicates expressing …