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A theory of control, equally grounded in syntax and semantics, that argues that obligatory control is achieved either through predication or through logophoric anchoring.

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Argument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics.

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This monograph explores several complex questions concerning the theories of government and bounding, including, in particular, the possibility of a unified approach to these topics.

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A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core.

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A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects.

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Following on from Noam Chomsky's "The Minimalist Program", this text deals in a general way with economy derivation and minimalism.

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In this monograph Mark Aronoff argues that linguists must consider morphology by itself, not merely as an appendage of syntax and phonology, and that linguistic theory must allow for a separate and autonomous morphological component.

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Exemplifies a trend in grammatical theory which combines findings from more than one area of linguistics. The author looks at the relationship between phrasal prominence and focus in Romance and Germanic languages to provide insights into how these properties are grammatically articulated.

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This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax.

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It is assumed that universal grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. This book proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption.

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An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages.

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A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.

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"A new theory on adjunct control from a leading linguistics researcher"--

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An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement.

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"An argument for a novel binarity constraint on merge, preventing syntactic movement from relating more than two distinct positions at one time"--

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A comprehensive theory of selective opacity effectsconfigurations in which syntactic domains are opaque to some processes but transparent to otherswithin a Minimalist framework.

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"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts"--