.... The chapter also compares the use of pronouns versus full noun-phrase referring expressions to refer to entities within preceding relative clauses. Centering Theory Discourse coherence Kameyama M Givón T Grosz B Joshi A Topicality Weinstein S Anaphora Accessibility salience hierarchy Givenness...

...Jean-Roger Vergnaud made significant contributions to linguistics through research, including his 1974 PhD dissertation on French restrictive relative clauses, as well as his work on movement and deletion. This book explores the fundamental importance of Case in syntactic theory and the major...

... since become, in somewhat modified form, the standard analysis for the derivation of relative clauses. He later integrated the proposal within a broader theory of movement and abstract case. These topics have remained central to theoretical linguistics. This book attests to the importance of Vergnaud’s...

...This chapter examines the phasal analysis of syntactic derivation, focusing on reconstruction and successive cyclicity effects. It proposes a non-movement analysis of resumptive pronouns in Celtic relative clauses in which these properties are derived under a phasal analysis of Agree. This novel...

...This book has shown that adjectives enter the structure of DPs in two different ways: either as direct phrasal specifiers of dedicated functional heads of the extended projection of the noun or as predicates of reduced relative clauses, merged above the functional projections hosting the former...

...This book offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, the author proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase either as “adverbial” modifiers to the noun or as predicates of reduced relative...

...This chapter examines identity avoidance and the “Obligatory Contour Principle” (OCP) in phonology, focusing on syntactic problems raised by headed relative clauses in Swiss German. It discusses the properties of a range of headed relative-clause constructions in Swiss German and considers three...

..., but instead affects all relative clauses. Finally, it examines wide scope quantifiers. Lambda Calculus Sloppy reading Bound variable reading Williams E A movement Antecedent Contained Deletion ACD Baltin M Extraposition Fiengo R Fox D Hirschbuhler P Hornstein N Infinite Regression Kennedy C...