What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did
they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive …

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a
number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the …

The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter
of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

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 …

This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to
the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental …

In Cinque (1990a), I had proposed that the base position of A (djective) P (hrase) s in the
noun phrase was, despite appearances, the same in Romance as in Germanic, namely to …

Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-
negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means …

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the
clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains …

Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old" talk is cheap" maxim carries as much
weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to …