Current Issues in Comparative Grammar

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Role of the Antecedent in Anaphoric Relations

   • Luigi Burzio

   Pages 1-45

3. Inflection and Parametric Variation: Portuguese vs. Spanish

   • A. Carlos Quicoli

   Pages 46-80

4. PRO and pro: Comments on Quicoli

   • Ken Safir

   Pages 81-90

5. Inflection and Empty Categories: Response to Safir’s Comments

   • A. Carlos Quicoli

   Pages 91-100

6. Experiencers and Raising Verbs

   • Esther Torrego

   Pages 101-120

7. NP-Movement and “Restructuring”

   • Jaklin Kornfilt

   Pages 121-147

8. Some Other Possible Cases of Nonlocal Dependencies: Comments on The Paper by Jaklin Kornfilt

   • Wayne Harbert

   Pages 148-161

9. Case and Expletives: Notes Toward a Parametric Account

   • Howard Lasnik

   Pages 162-189

10. Notes on Case and Expletives: A Discussion of Lasnik’s Paper

    • Lisa Travis

    Pages 190-202

11. Comments on Relativized Minimality

    • M. A. Browning

    Pages 203-225

12. ‘Long’ WH-Movements and Referentiality

    • Guglielmo Cinque

    Pages 226-248

13. On the Characterization and Effects of D-Linking: Comments on Cinque

    • Mark R. Baltin

    Pages 249-256

14. Determiner Clitic Placement

    • Juan Uriagereka

    Pages 257-295

15. Head Movement, Cliticization, Precompilation, and Word Insertion (Comments on Uriagereka’s Paper)

    • Carlos P. Otero

    Pages 296-337

16. A Brief Response

    • Juan Uriagereka

    Pages 338-345

17. Two Cases of Logical Relations: Bound Pronouns and Anaphoric Relations

    • Joseph Aoun, Yen-Hui Audrey Li

    Pages 346-373

18. Remarks on Linguistic Scope Comments on Aoun and Li’s Paper

    • Edwin Williams

    Pages 374-380

19. Back Matter

    Pages 381-384

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Current Issues in Comparative Grammar illustrates the diversity and productivity of research within the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar. In combination, the papers in this volume address a rich and varied set of issues in the study of comparative grammar, including the theories of binding, case and government, the parametric effects of inflection, the syntactic properties of infinitival constructions, the analysis of expletives and of clitics, and the interpretation of anaphoric properties at the level of Logical Form. The collection employs several different research strategies, ranging from a broad survey of related constructions in a wide range of languages to the close analysis of an unusual construction in a single language and its consequences for the theory of Universal Grammar. Some of the papers collected here are commentaries on others, or responses to commentaries.

• Index
• comparative
• grammar
• infinitive
• language
• pronouns
• syntactic

• Princeton University, USA

  Robert Freidin

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