Marc Richards
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marc Richards plays a role.
2006 True optionality: When the grammar doesn’t mind Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 35–67 | Article
2006 Weak pronouns, object shift, and multiple spell-out: Evidence for phases at the PF interface Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 160–181 | Article
2006 Object Shift, Phases, and Transitive Expletive Constructions in Germanic* Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 139–159 | Article
This paper reconsiders the analysis of Transitive Expletive Constructions (TECs) across Germanic in light of recent developments in the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995 et seq.). I argue that prevailing views of expletives as merged directly into the Spec-TP position are untenable under the… read more
2005 Explaining Expl The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 115–153 | Article