In addition to the division in Case theory between structural and non-structural Case, the
theory must distinguish two kinds of nonstructural Case: lexical Case and inherent Case …

The central concern of this title, first published in 1994, is the syntactic nature of negation in
Universal Grammar, and its relation to other functional elements in the Syntax. The study …

Page 1 OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX Checking Theory and Grammatical
Functions in Universal Grammar Hiroyuki Ura Page 2 Checking Theory and Grammatical …

A major tenet of much research in generative grammar is that there exists a set of universal
properties that are common to all languages (principles), and that even the differences that …

The grammatical status of Romance pronominal clitics has long been the object of intense
debate. Are they syntactically-independent arguments or are they affixal agreement …

A key piece of evidence in favor of recent proposals that speech act roles are encoded in the
syntax comes from languages with “allocutivity”–agreement with non-thematic addressees …

Ergative case is said to mark transitive subjects, and it is widely assumed that this is true
under the ordinary definition of transitive; however, propose that ergative languages fall into …

This dissertation focuses on the structure of non-finite verbal projections in Basque and the
grammatical formatives associated with them: the nominalizer te and the perfect morpheme …

In this paper we aim at a comprehensive but minimal description of verb classes in Basque
in terms of their argument structure. We assume the principles of Lexical Decomposition …

The aim of this thesis is two-fold: to develop an articulated Vietnamese clause structure in
two syntactic domains: VP-external and VP-internal in the spirit of generative grammar, and …