Problems in Syntax

Front Matter....Pages iii-xix
Syntactic-Morphological Discrepancies in Maltese Sentence Structure....Pages 3-28
Heuristic Problems Concerning the Identification of Grammatical Relations: The Case of the Westgermania (Dutch-English-German)....Pages 29-53
Verb Complements and Sentence Complements : Two Different Types of Relation....Pages 55-83
Observations on the Syntax of English Nominals....Pages 85-103
The Structure of Infinitival Perception Verb Complements in a Transformational Grammar....Pages 105-128
Passive in a Semantic-Syntactic Dependency Network....Pages 129-150
Verb-First Clauses in Icelandic, Successive Cyclic wh-Movement and Syntactic Binding....Pages 151-179
The Construction of the Infinitive with Causative Movement Verbs in French....Pages 181-193
Generalized Union....Pages 195-229
On the Status of Verbal Reflexives....Pages 231-255
Reflexivization in English....Pages 257-272
The Temporal Reference of the English Futurate....Pages 273-288
Prolegomena to a Semantic Analysis of Phase-Indicating Verbal Periphrases in Portuguese....Pages 289-323
Time, Tense and Restriction....Pages 325-346
The Configurational Matrix....Pages 347-360
Towards Plausibility in Theories of Language Acquisition....Pages 361-375
Back Matter....Pages 377-393