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The Serial Verb Construction Parameter
An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation.
Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative
First Published in 1998. This work is an unrevised version of my 1996 University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D. dissertation. The only changes that have been made are corrections …
Aspect, Eventuality Types and Nominal Reference
First published in 1999. This book examines the interplay between the semantics of noun phrases and verbal predicates, with an emphasis on data drawn from Czech and English, and …
The Interaction of Modality and Negation
First Published in 1997. This book is an updated version of the author's 1994 dissertation, submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Southern California. With updated …
The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb
The book investigates the synatctic distribution of the Algonquian Conjuct verb from the theoretical perspective of the Minimalist Program.
On the Syntax of Negation
First Published in 1994. This is an investigation to explore certain syntactic phenomena induced by sentence negation in Basque and English. In this study of linguistics the …
The Discourse Function of Inversion in English
First published in 1997. This dissertation presents a discourse-functional account of English inversion, based on an empirical study of natural language data. The central finding …
On Economizing the Theory of A-Bar Dependencies
First Published in 1999. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is essentially a response to a minimalist question: how perfect is language? There are so many factors …
Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction
First Published in 1997. The alternation between high vowels and glides is shown here to follow from the interaction of phonological constraints as defined by Prince and …
A Presuppositional Analysis of Specific Indefinites
First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite …
Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese
This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure and (some instances of) focus realisation in European Portuguese (EP). The …
Long-Distance Dependencies
This book investigates the theory of locality within the framework of minimalism, with a special focus on restructuring and other related phenomena that exhibit an apparent …