ABSTRACT

Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as:
* interpretation and distribution of pronouns
* ECP effects
* specifiers and phrase structure
* the role and functioning of head movement
* the architecture of grammar
Each chapter draws syntactic arguments from phenomena in a broad range of languages and brings these to bear on the structure of syntactic theory and the understanding of crosslinguistic variation. Among the languages studied are the African languages, Welsh and Irish, Norwegian, French, English and Dutch.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Pronouns and WCO

part |2 pages

PART II ECP

chapter 4|5 pages

ECP effects in main clauses

chapter 5|25 pages

Control from COMP and comparative syntax

part |2 pages

PART III Specifiers and phrase structure

part |2 pages

PART IV Heads

chapter 9|38 pages

Licensing heads

chapter 10|28 pages

On Verbs that fail to undergo V-second

part |2 pages

PART V Specifiers and Heads

chapter 11|35 pages

The Spec head configuration

chapter 12|17 pages

Unifying predicate cleft constructions