Dhivehi, the language of the Maldives, has received little attention in the linguistic literature, and no other comprehensive grammar of the...
This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis...
Under the tenet shared by Hornstein and Kayne that rules of construal need to be recaptured by the operation Move, this book aims to construct a...
Natural language differs from artificial ones in having the "displacement property," allowing expressions to "move" from one position to another in...
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of...
This comparative grammar of Acadian and Louisiana French is the first extensive description of the varieties of French spoken in Canada and the...
This is a cross-linguistic exploration of the use of clause linkage markers in causal, conditional, and concessive sentences. Employing a five-level...