Books in the Dissertations in Linguistics S. series

Australian Aboriginal languages challenge some of the central assumptions of current linguistic theory.

This book examines the scrambling phenomena in German and Korean.

A nonderivational, lexicalist analysis within the constraint-based framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

A nonderivational, lexicalist analysis within the constraint-based framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

This work examines word order in Russian.

An in-depth investigation into the interaction of place of articulation features and constriction degree features in phonological processes.

This volume proposes that central to an adequate theory of complementation is an account of the role of lexical semantics.

This book develops a comprehensive analysis of the contribution of possessive NPs to the truth conditions of the sentences in which they occur.

This volume investigates the proper treatment of the semantic or discourse aspects of zibun -binding and their interaction with syntax.

This text asserts that grammatical relations such as subject and object are syntactic notions, and must be identified on the basis of syntactic properties, rather than by semantic roles or discourse functions. It uses data from Tagalog to test the theories on subjecthood that have been put forth.