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The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery
Under current assumptions, the structural representation of a clause consists of three kinds of structural layers, each layer an instantiation of the X-bar schema: 1. The lexical layer, headed…
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Issues in Italian Syntax
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The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century and the topics range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
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Null objects in Italian and the theory of 'pro'
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Relativized relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of A-bar dependencies
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Locality and Left Periphery
Psych-verbs and θ-theory
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On the Form of Chains: Criterial Positions and ECP Effects.
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The present paper starts with a discussion of the functional motivations of movement, and connects this level of analysis to the study of the form of chains, with special reference to the A'-system, and the formal principles which constrain possible chain configurations.
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Some Notes on Linguistic Theory and Language Development: The Case of Root Infinitives
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The basic properties of the construction are shown to be amenable to the Truncation Hypothesis: Root infinitives are incompatible with wh-elements, subject critics, auxiliaries, and so forth.
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On Nature and Language
In this new and outstanding book Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind, and brain, integrating current research in linguistics into the burgeoning field of…
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Relativized Minimality Effects
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