Problems in Syntax

Front Matter....Pages iii-xix Syntactic-Morphological Discrepancies in Maltese Sentence Structure....Pages 3-28 Heuristic Problems Concerning the Identification of Grammatical Relations: The Case of the Westgermania (Dutch-English-German)....Pages 29-53 Verb Complements and Sentence Complements : Two Different Types of Relation....Pages 55-83 Observations on the Syntax of English Nominals....Pages 85-103 The Structure of Infinitival Perception Verb Complements in a Transformational Grammar....Pages 105-128 Passive in a Semantic-Syntactic Dependency Network....Pages 129-150 Verb-First Clauses in Icelandic, Successive Cyclic wh-Movement and Syntactic Binding....Pages 151-179 The Construction of the Infinitive with Causative Movement Verbs in French....Pages 181-193 Generalized Union....Pages 195-229 On the Status of Verbal Reflexives....Pages 231-255 Reflexivization in English....Pages 257-272 The Temporal Reference of the English Futurate....Pages 273-288 Prolegomena to a Semantic Analysis of Phase-Indicating Verbal Periphrases in Portuguese....Pages 289-323 Time, Tense and Restriction....Pages 325-346 The Configurational Matrix....Pages 347-360 Towards Plausibility in Theories of Language Acquisition....Pages 361-375 Back Matter....Pages 377-393