CLITICS, PRONOUNS AND MOVEMENT -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFATORY NOTE -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION: SOME REFLECTIONS ON MOVEMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Four theories of movement -- 2.1 C-movement -- 2.2 C-copying -- 2.3 F-movement and F- copying -- 3. Asymmetric chains -- 3.1 Split Topicalization -- 3.2 CP Topicalization -- 3.3 Subject CP movement -- 4. Conclusions & a note on movement of clitics and pronouns -- REFERENCES -- THE GENITIVE CLITIC AND THE GENITIVE CONSTRUCTION IN ANDEAN SPANISH -- Introduction -- 1. Description of the data -- 1.1 Clitic co-indexation -- 2. Analysis of the inalienable possession construction -- 2.1 Southern Andean Spanish vs. Standard Spanish: the clitic -- 2.2 The categorial nature of the clitic in Southern Andean Spanish -- 3. Additional evidence-initial stages of second language acquisition of Spanish by Quechua speakers -- 3.1 Inalienable possession in Southern Quechua -- 3.1.1 The structure of inalienable possession in Southern Quechua -- 3.2 Different stages in Southern Andean Spanish acquisition -- 3.3 Further evidence: Ecuadorian Andean Spanish and Ecuadorian Quechua -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT-OBJECT ASYMMETRIES AND THE CLITIC EN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Unaccusative and unergative verb classes -- 2.1 Unaccusatives, case and the definiteness effect -- 2.2 Nominal and verbal categorial content -- 2.3 Past participles -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. Theta role hierarchy -- 3.1 Themes and agents -- 3.2 The structure of psych-verbs -- 3.2.1 The temere class -- 3.2.2 The spaventare class -- 3.3 Summary -- 4. Structure -- 4.1 Quantifier positions -- 4.2 VP shells and clause structure -- 4.3 Theoretical implications of the analysis -- 5. Conclusions and directions for future research -- REFERENCES -- CLITIC DOUBLING, SPECIFICITY AND FOCUS IN ROMANIAN -- 1. Introduction.

2. Focus and focus projection -- 3. Two approaches to clitic doubling constructions -- 3.1 Mahajan (1991) -- 3.2 Sportiche(1992) -- 4, Clitic doubling in Romanian -- 5. Clitic doubling, specificity and focus -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- REITERATIVE SYNTAX -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Methodological assumptions -- 1.1.1 Theoretical framework -- 1.1.2 Antisymmetry -- 1.1.3 Head Movement Constraint -- 1.1.4 Generalized doubly filled comp filter -- 1.1.5 Agreement licensing -- 2. Structure of complex complementizers -- 2.1 Data -- 2.1.1 Matrix clauses -- 2.1.2 Dependent clauses: subordinating conjunctions -- 2.1.3 Dependent clauses: coordinating conjunctions -- 2.2 Analysis of complementizer agreement -- 2.2.1 Zwart -- 2.2.2 Revisions to Zwart -- 2.3 Verbal agreement morphology -- 2.3.1 Subject-verb agreement in Classical Arabic -- 2.3.2 Subject-verb agreement in German -- 2.4 Additional structure in CP -- 2.4.1 WH-licensing -- 2.4.2 Topic licensing -- 2.4.3 Coordinating conjunctions -- 3. Structure reiteration -- 3.1 Clause medial CONJP -- 3.2 Clause medial WHP -- 3.3 Clause medial CP -- 3.4 Clause medial AGRP -- 3.5 Low clause medial CP -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- EXPERIENCE VERSUS NON-EXPERIENCEASYMMETRIES IN THE CAUSATIVE SYSTEM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological facts -- 3. Experience vs. non-experience asymmetries in transitivity -- 4. Pseudo-intransitiv e and weakly transitive -- 5. The weakly transitive nature of V[+EXP]S -- 6. Explanation of Exp ertencer-Theme Inversion -- 7. Implications for English grammar -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- MOVEMENT OF VERBAL COMPLEMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. VP complements -- 1.1 Movement of the maximal projection -- 1.2 Nominal features of infinitives -- 1.3 The functional projection -- 2. Movement of the CP complement -- 2.1. Inert projections -- 2.2 The State of post-verbal infinitives.

3. Frisian and Swiss German -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE BA CONSTRUCTION IN MANDARINCHINESE: A SERIAL VERB ANALYSIS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Patterns of the ba construction -- 3. Characteristics of the ba construction -- 3.1 Word order -- 3.2 Adjacency requirement -- 3.3 (Non-)presuppositionality -- 4. The verb and the ba NP -- 4.1 The relation between the verb and the ba NP -- 4.1.1 The relation between the verb and the ba NP in the objective ba construction -- 4.1.2 Affectedness and locative, instrumental & causative ba constructions -- 4.1.3 The bei passive and locative, instrumental and causative ba constructions -- 4.2 Properties of the verb -- 4.2.1 The verb is a non-stative transitive verb -- 4.2.2 The verb is a passive verb -- 5. What is ba? -- 6. A serial verb analysis of the ba construction -- 6.1 Baker's (1989) proposal -- 6.2 Structure of the ba construction -- 6.3 Merits of the serial verb analysis -- 6.3.1 Selectionai restrictions -- Speech Intentions, Speech Planning, and the Use ofSyntactic Constructions -- Introduction -- 1 Speech intentions -- 1.1 Preliminary remarks -- 1.2 Intentions-in-action -- 1.3 Sound-related form properties and speech intentions -- 2 Speech planning -- 2.1 The place of speech intentions in models of speech planning -- 2.2 The role of metalinguistic knowledge -- 3 The use of syntactic constructions: examples -- 3.1 Syntactic preferences -- 3.2 Discourse functions of syntactic constructions -- 3.3 Stylistic advice -- Conclusions -- References -- English Verbal Idioms of Aural Perception Evidence of Semantic Systematicity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Principal methodological assumptions -- 3 The sorted lexicographic meanings of nonintentional "hear" and intentional "listen" -- 4 Two claims -- 4.1 Claim 1 -- 4.2 Claim 2 -- 5 Discussion of data -- 5.1 "Listen"-L1 idioms -- 5.2 "(Listen"-L2 idioms.

5.3 "Listen"-L3 idioms -- 5.4 "Hear "-H2 idioms -- 5.5 Hybrid idioms -- 6 Summary and conclusion -- References -- Dictionaries -- Semantics and Grammar: A Relationship of Mutual Foundations? -- 1 Complex of HG-syntax -- 2 Complex of cognitive style -- 3 Complex of H-supervenience -- 4 Complex of analyticity -- 5 Complex of communicative style -- References -- The Problem of 'Adjectives' in Mandarin Chinese -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Theoretical background -- 2 'Adjectives' as verbs in Mandarin: syntactic arguments -- 2.1 Predicative use -- 2.2 Aspect marking -- 2.3 Attributive use -- 3 Possible objections -- 3.1 The use of shì with verbal predicates -- 3.2 Modification by degree adverbs -- 3.3 Ellipsis of de -- 3.4 Reduplication -- 4. 'Adjectives' as proper verbs in Mandarin -- 4.1 Lexical meanings ofGRAD- and NON-GRAD verbs -- 4.2 The function of attributive de -- 4.3 An assumption onpart of the word class system of Mandarin Chinese -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Beyond New Structuralism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A critical discussion of Lieb's proposal of New Structuralism -- 3. The linguistic structure claim -- 4. My own position - a Leibnizean position -- 5. Linguistic interdisciplines? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Wann hat eine Sprache begonnen? -- Abstract -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Zur universalen Dimension der IDENTIFIKATION -- Abstract -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Zum Gang der Forschungen nach UNITYP -- 3. Verschiedene Abgrenzungen des Datenbereichs -- 4. Der Bereich der IDENTIFIKATION, prätheoretisch -- OBJECT SHIFTIN SERBO-CROATIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Object Shift in Scandinavian -- 3. Object Shift in Serbo-Croatian -- 3.1 Main properties -- 3.2 Verb movement in Serbo-Croatian -- 3.3 Syntactic evidence for Object Shift as raising to SPEC.AGROP -- 3.4 Triggers for Object Shift -- 4. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES.

ENGLISH FINITE AUXILIARIES IN SYNTAX AND PHONOLOGY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The syntax of finite AUX -- 2.1 Contraction vs. reduction -- 2.2 Word order -- 2.3 Sentential adverbs and parentheticals -- 2.4 Serbian/Croatian clitic auxiliaries -- 2.5 Optionality -- 2.6 Negation -- 2.7 No contractions in yes-no questions -- 2.8 Weak AUX and focus -- 2.9 The role of Σ -- 3. Further distributional restrictions -- 3.1 Lefthand context -- 3.2 Righthand context -- 3.3 Left-right paradox -- 3.4 Proclisisandenclisis -- 3.5 English vs. Serbian/Croatian -- Appendix: contraction of do/does/did -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX.