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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Some Basic Theoretical Notions | |
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Principles and Parameters | |
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The Model of the Grammar | |
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Clause Structure | |
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Movement | |
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Chomsky (1993, 1995) | |
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Chomsky (2000, 2001) | |
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Different Types of Movement | |
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Economy | |
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The Distribution of Nominal Arguments and the Syntax of A-Positions | |
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Principles Determining the Syntax of A-Positions | |
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Theta Theory and Argument Structure | |
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Case Theory | |
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The Extended Projection Principle | |
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Parameters Determining the Syntax of A-Positions | |
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The Pro-Drop Parameter | |
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Presence vs. Absence of Object Movement | |
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Transitive Expletive Constructions | |
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Morphology and the Setting of Parameters | |
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The Germanic Languages | |
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Outline | |
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Features, Categories and Checking. Towards Deriving the EPP and Abstract Case | |
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Introduction | |
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Object Movement and Categories - Towards Deriving Abstract Case | |
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Towards Deriving the EPP | |
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Some General Consequences | |
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Syntactic Categories | |
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Phrase Structure | |
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Checking Theory | |
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The Model of Grammar: The Single Output Model | |
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Interpretability of Categorial Features | |
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More on the EPP and Abstract Case | |
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The EPP | |
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The EPP and CPs | |
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The EPP and PPs | |
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Summary | |
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Abstract Case as Categorial Feature Checking | |
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Subject of a Finite Clause | |
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Object of V | |
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P and Case | |
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A and N Do Not Assign Structural Case | |
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No Overt Subjects in Infinitival Clauses | |
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Exceptional Case Marking | |
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Some Speculations on PRO | |
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Acc-ing Gerunds | |
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NP-Movement | |
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Object Movement | |
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Pesetsky and Torrego (2001): An Extension to CP? | |
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An Alternative to Categorial Feature Checking: Covalent Bonding | |
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Conclusion | |
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Syntactic Effects of Morphological Case | |
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Introduction | |
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Word Order Freedom and Morphological Case | |
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German vs. Dutch | |
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The Properties of Scrambling (i): Non-Adjacency of Verb and Object | |
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Clause Boundedness | |
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Weak Crossover | |
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Binding | |
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Parasitic Gaps | |
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Categorial Restrictions | |
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Summary | |
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The Properties of Scrambling (ii): Word Order Freedom in German | |
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Clause Boundedness | |
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Weak Crossover | |
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Binding | |
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Parasitic Gaps | |
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Categorial Restrictions | |
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Reconstruction | |
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Summary | |
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The Properties of Scrambling (iii): The Contrast Dutch vs. German | |
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Scrambling as A'-Movement | |
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Scrambled Elements in A-Positions | |
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The Properties of Scrambling: Summary | |
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Analyzing Scrambling (i) | |
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Analyzing Scrambling (ii) | |
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Some Consequences | |
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The Morphophonological Realization of Case | |
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Scrambling of PPs and CPs: Contrasts between German and Dutch | |
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Long Distance Scrambling | |
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VP-Topicalization | |
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Nominative-Dative Inversion, Part I | |
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Beyond Germanic - Some Notes on Korean | |
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The Case Parameter and Case Morphology | |
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Summary | |
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Nominal Complements of Adjectives and Case Morphology | |
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Some Speculations on OV/VO Order | |
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Summary | |
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Subjecthood and Agreement | |
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Introduction | |
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Subjects and Agreement in German | |
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On the Word Order XP-Subject in the Germanic Languages | |
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XP-Subject in German | |
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XP-Subject: Variation in the Germanic Languages | |
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Two Assumptions | |
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XP-SU in the West Germanic Languages | |
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XP-SU in the Scandinavian Languages | |
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Summary | |
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On Expletives | |
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Expletives and No Arguments | |
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Expletive-Associate Constructions | |
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Expletive-Associate Constructions and Categorical Feature Checking | |
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One Expletive, One Argument | |
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One Expletive, Two or More Arguments--TECs | |
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Some Consequences | |
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Expletive-Associate Constructions and Non-Categorial Feature Checking | |
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Expletives and Definite Subjects | |
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The Absence of the DE in German | |
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Some Cross-Linguistic Issues | |
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A Note on Expletive Constructions and Their Relation to Other Grammatical Properties | |
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Summary | |
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Oblique Case and Subjecthood. Or: Why Icelandic Is Different | |
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Introduction | |
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Oblique Case and Subjecthood: Icelandic vs. German | |
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Oblique Subjects | |
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A Contrast between Icelandic and German | |
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Different Types of Cases | |
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The Structural Position of Oblique Subjects: Preliminary Remarks | |
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Motivating Two Agreement Positions | |
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The Distribution of Person and Number Agreement within the Clause Structure | |
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Analyzing Oblique Subjects | |
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The Absence of Oblique Subjects in German | |
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Summary | |
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A Note on Nominative Objects | |
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'XP-Subject' in Icelandic | |
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Expletives and Definite Subjects | |
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On the Absence of Free Argument Order in Icelandic | |
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Morphological Case but Rigid Argument Order | |
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Some Freedom of Word Order: IO-DO Inversion | |
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Summary | |
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Some Cross-Linguistic Issues | |
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Yiddish | |
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The Distribution of Arguments | |
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V1 in Embedded Clauses | |
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Faroese | |
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Summary | |
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Conclusion | |
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References | |
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Language Index | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |