Randall Hendrick

List of John Benjamins publications for which Randall Hendrick plays a role.

This chapter describes the syntactic behavior of constructions like the prospects are for peace. The construction is argued to be a sub-case of equational (or ‘specificational’) copular constructions. It is shown that the construction exhibits a definiteness effect on the subject of the copula and… read more
Hendrick, Randall 2007 Syntactic labels and their derivationsPhrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 93–107 | Article
There has been some interest in minimalist theories in deriving category label from a head of phrase without having to stipulate them directly. This paper investigates syntactic labels and their derivation, and considers whether the head of a phrase and the label it supplies are fixed and unique… read more