Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk

Cover page......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 12
Hi Morris, this is Henk!......Page 16
An intersubjective note on the notion of 'subjectification'......Page 22
A note on non-canonical passives: the case of the get-passive......Page 34
Preposition stranding and locative adverbs in German......Page 52
Moving verbal complexes in Spanish......Page 64
Unbearably light verbs versus finite auxiliary drop......Page 74
Extraction from subjects :some remarks on Chomsky's On phases......Page 80
A Chinese relative......Page 90
Approximative of zo as a diagnostic tool......Page 98
A note on interpretable features and idiosyncratic categorial selection......Page 108
Transparent, free... and polarised: the (politics of polarity in transparent free relatives......Page 118
The inverse agreement constraint in Hungarian: a relic of a Uralic-Siberian Sprachbund?......Page 129
Syntactic conditions on phonetically empty morphemes......Page 137
Long-distance reciprocals......Page 148
The notion of topic and the problem of quantification in Hungarian......Page 158
Questions of complexity......Page 167
Concatenation and interpretation......Page 183
As time goes by: a digressive discourse......Page 192
There's that: unifying existential and list readings......Page 207
Extended projections - extended analogues: a note on Hungarian PPs......Page 218
Against the sonority scale: evidence from Frankish tones......Page 227
Classifiers, agreement and honorifics in Japanese......Page 243
What stranded adjectives reveal about Split-NP Topicalization......Page 251
Past tense interpretations in Dutch......Page 262
Why phonology is the same......Page 273
Recursively linked Case-Agreement: from accidents to principles and beyond......Page 284
Enfoldment as Economy......Page 296
"GP, I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground"......Page 304
On parameters and on principles of pronunciation......Page 310
What to do with those fools of a crew?......Page 321
Why indefinite pronouns are different......Page 331
Seeing the forest despite the tree......Page 340
When to pied-pipe and when to strand in San Dionicio Octotepec Zapotec......Page 352
Free relatives as light-headed relatives in Turkish......Page 361
Is linguistics a natural science?......Page 371
Two asymmetries between Clitic Left and Clitic Right Dislocation in Bulgarian......Page 380
On dative subjects in Russian......Page 386
On the nature of case in Basque: structural or inherent?......Page 395
Examining the scope of Principles-and-Parameters Theory......Page 404
Clitics and adjacency in Greek PPs......Page 411
A minimalist program for parametric linguistics?......Page 428
A syntactic approach to negated focus questions in Bulgarian......Page 436
The case of midpositions......Page 445
Quechua P-soup......Page 455
Semantic compositionality of the way-construction......Page 460
Soft mutation at the interface......Page 468
Abracadabra, the relation between stress and rhythm......Page 479
What do we learn when we acquire a language?......Page 487
A prosodic contrast between Northern and Southern Dutch: a result of a Flemish-French sprachbund......Page 495
The object of verbs like help and an apparent violation of UTAH......Page 504
A note on relative pronouns in Standard German......Page 516
Agreeing to bind......Page 526
Positive polarity and evaluation......Page 535
Phase theory and the privilege of the root......Page 550
On the role of parameters in Universal Grammar: a reply to Newmeyer......Page 559
Welsh VP-ellipsis and the representation of aspect......Page 575
A new perspective on event participants in psychological states and events......Page 584
A glimpse of doubly-filled COMPs in Swiss German......Page 593
Missing prepositions in Dutch free relatives......Page 603
Final sonorant devoicing in early Yokuts field-records......Page 613
Cyclic NP structure and trace interpretation......Page 620
Appositive and parenthetical relative clauses......Page 629
Overt infinitival subjects (if that's what they are)......Page 639
Wanna and the prepositional complementizers of English......Page 646
A note on asymmetric coordination and subject gaps......Page 654
The representation of focus and its implications: towards an alternative account of some 'intervention effects'......Page 662
Circumstantial evidence for Dative Shift......Page 682
Why should diminutives count?......Page 690
Adjacency, PF, and extraposition......Page 700
A note on functional adpositions......Page 710
Bibliography of Henk C. van Riemsdijk......Page 717
Index......Page 728