Marc Richards

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marc Richards plays a role.

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Biberauer, Theresa and Marc Richards 2006 True optionality: When the grammar doesn’t mind Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 35–67 | Article

Richards, Marc 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

Richards, Marc 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

Richards, Marc and Theresa Biberauer 2005 Explaining Expl The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories, Dikken, Marcel den and Christina Tortora (eds.), pp. 115–153 | Article