Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This
book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative …

The subject of nonfinite clauses is often missing, and yet is understood to refer to some
linguistic or contextual referent (eg'Bill preferred __ to remain silent'is understood as' Bill …

The paper investigates a number of asymmetries in the behavior of subjects in Germanic,
Celtic/Arabic, Romance, and Greek. The languages under investigation divide into two main …

Offers an explanation for a long-standing question in the typological distinction among
languages with respect to formation of interrogatives which use questions words such as" …

Recent research on the syntax of Arabic has produced valuable literature on the major
syntactic phenomena found in the language. This guide to Arabic syntax provides an …

This monograph constitutes a complete revision and considerable extension of my doctoral
dissertation submitted to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College …

In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant
contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful …

The Syntax of Relativization Page 1 The Syntax of Relativization Page 2 Published by LOT
phone: +31 30 253 6006 Trans 10 fax: +31 30 253 6000 3512 JK Utrecht e-mail: lot@let.uu.nl …

This dissertation examines the question of why there should be different types of phrasal
movement, with different syntactic and semantic properties. I develop the hypothesis that all …

In this paper, we show how incorporating into syntax the concept of structural
underspecification and the dynamics of its resolution enables us to characterise the …