Volume III: Taling form.«This book is volume III of a trilogy which explores the difference
between words however defined and structures however constructed. The trilogy sets out to …

A longstanding claim in the literature holds that by phrases are special in the passive,
receiving certain external argument roles that by phrases in nominals cannot, such as the …

This thesis is concerned with developing a syntax for coordinate structures which is
compatible with both the syntactic behaviour of conjunction structures and with their …

This thesis investigates the mechanisms applying in the interpretation of syntactic chains.
The theoretical background includes a translation of syntactic forms into semantic forms and …

This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in
language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we …

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence
structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …

This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of" part" and"
whole" in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. Moltmann …

Theories of total reconstruction have generally supposed that movement can be followed by
an undoing operation like LF lowering (May 1977, 1985) or deletion of higher copies …

This dissertation argues that the widely-accepted analysis of all and both as universal
quantifiers is incorrect, and proposes instead that all/both are modifiers that place a …

We examine the three categories of empirical argument that Landau (2003) puts forward
against a movement theory of control (MTC): overgeneration cases, alleged arguments in …