In this Postface, one of our primary objectives as editors, is to weave together into a coherent whole the insights and analyses of our contributors. We aim to show how the chapters in the volume complement each other, highlighting both similarities and differences in the patterns of the nominal… read more
Jayaseelan (1992) aims to account for the fact that ‘inverse copula sentences’ such as My best friend is John may exclude coreference between a Name and a pronoun in the absence of the c-command configuration which triggers the application of Principle B of the Binding Theory. For example, the… read more
Abstract. We trace the evolution of the Italian verb bisogna from a lexical verb expressing need in Old Italian to a modal verb of necessity in Modern Italian (cf. Benincà & Poletto 1993, 1994, 1996). According to the standard view (Roberts 1985; Pollock 1989) loss of its theta-role content turns a… read more