Titlebook: Current Issues in Comparative Grammar; Robert Freidin Book 1996 Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996 Index.comparative.grammar.infinitive.langu

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Inflection and Parametric Variation: Portuguese vs. Spanish,of a system of principles, each with certain open parameters to be fixed on the basis experience with primary linguistic data. By appropriately fixing the parameters of UG, a particular (Core) Grammar is determined which, by hypothesis, correlates in some important aspects with the Real Grammar repr

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, and ,: Comments on Quicoli,ially from the perspective of recent theoretical work within the principles and parameters framework initiated by Chomsky (1981). The appeal of the parametric perspective is that a variety of language typological characteristics can be linked, if the account is successful, merely by selecting approp

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Case and Expletives: Notes Toward a Parametric Account,s concerns expletive NPs. The question of why expletives require Case, which has become a difficult one under several recent theories, will come under particular scrutiny. Recent proposals of Chomsky (1986) concerning expletives and of Belletti (1988) will (eventually) be considered in some detail.

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,Notes on Case and Expletives: A Discussion of Lasnik’s Paper, traditional analyses in the belief that the NP does not get its Case via CHAIN formation with the expletive, but rather needs to get its Case independently. In these comments, I focus my attention on the nature of this Case assignment. Lasnik, in order to account for intralanguage and interlanguage

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Comments on Relativized Minimality, great utility in accounting for a wide variety of phenomena; and it has been very difficult to formulate in a manner that rules out all the relevant cases where government should be blocked while allowing government where necessary. The most influential version of minimality has been what Rizzi (19

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On the Characterization and Effects of D-Linking: Comments on Cinque,oped by Rizzi (1990). It argues against the relevance of θ-government, a cornerstone of Chomsky (1986), to the notion of proper government, and views the ECP as requiring that traces meet two simultaneous conditions:.(1)

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