A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure

TL;DR: An overview of L2 research on interfaces is provided, comparing different interface domains and concluding that the authors must be wary of assuming that all linguistic interfaces are equally problematic or unproblematic or that different linguistic phenomena pertaining to the same interface will necessarily behave alike.

TL;DR: Aquest treball proporciona una visio general dels aspectes clau actuals in el camp de la gramatica generativa: l’estudi de la facultat del llenguatge huma as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A Strong Modularity Hypothesis for Discourse Features is proposed, according to which no discourse notion can be encoded by formal features, and movements corresponding to non-truth-conditional notions must thus be interface phenomena, rather than driven by a feature-checking mechanism.

TL;DR: The role of prosody in the analysis of marginalization and left-shift in Italian N-words is discussed in this paper. But the analysis is limited to the context of leftward right dislocation and marginalization.

TL;DR: The structural representation of a clause consists of three kinds of structural layers, each layer an instantiation of the X-bar schema: the lexical layer, headed by the verb, the structural layer in which theta assignment takes place, the complementizer layer, typically headed by a free functional morpheme, and hosting topics and various operator-like elements such as interrogative and relative pronouns, focalized elements, etc..

TL;DR: This book investigates a wide variety of semantic rules, stating them in considerable detail and extensively treating their consequences for the syntactic component of the grammar, and proposes radically new approaches to the so-called Crossover Principle, the control problem for complement subjects, parentheticals, and the interpretation of nonspecific noun phrases.