Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between
syntax and semantics, is derived from S-structure by strictly local movement. The primary …

The article proposes a new theory of successive-cyclic movement that reconciles the early
and the current minimalist approaches to it. As in the early approach, there is no feature …

This thesis proposes that wit-operators in (headed) restrictive and non—restrictive relatives
are resumptive chains. A resumptive chain can have Huh-features or-wh-features. If it has …

The article demonstrates that the rescue-by-PF-deletion account of the amelioration effect of
island violations under ellipsis, originally noted by Ross (1969), can be extended to account …

In this dissertation, adult learners' accessibility to Universal Grammar is tested by verifying
knowledge of movement constraints in L2 English. We investigate the treatment of wh …

The goal of this thesis is to provide an alternative theory of how wh-expressions are
interpreted. I propose that French wh-words are interpreted through an A-bar binding …

This paper examines Superiority effects with VP internal constituents in English, Spanish
and Bulgarian. It is argued in the paper that certain data concerning Superiority effects …

This study is concerned with the semantic content of complcmentizers, and with the modes
of interpretation of adverbial wh elernents and with their possibilities for wh movement. It …

Slavic languages are characterized by multiple wh-fronting (MWF) in overt syntax. Rudin
(1988a, 1988b, 1996)(for important early studies of MWF, see Wachowicz 1974 and Toman …

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral
genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain …