In this book, Holmberg and Platzack present a theory of the role which subject-verb
agreement and case morphology play in syntax. Their theory is based mainly on a detailed …

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 …

The study of Russian is of great importance to syntactic theory, due in particular to its
unusual case system and its complex word order patterns. This book provides an essential …

This article examines the relationship between abstract and morphological case, arguing
that morphological case realizes abstract Case features in a postsyntactic morphology …

This thesis is a theoretical investigation of various dimensions of symmetry exhibited in
human language. I discuss two kinds of symmetry: AGREEMENT SYMMETRY and …

The main thesis of this dissertation is that morphological case is a purely morphological
phenomenon, determined exclusively within the post-Spell-out portion of the derivation on …

The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in
sentences like'John wants to leave'are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes …

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

In the context of an analysis of the four-way Case system of Nez Perce, this paper presents
evidence for three claims concerning Case theory. First, ergative is not a structural Case like …

ABSTRACT I propose an analysis of the inflectional system of clauses that captures both
crosslinguistic variation and differences between adult speakers and young children …