Parameters and Universals

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects, together forming a strongly cohesive set that will be valuable to both scholars and students.

I. Romance

Microparametric Syntax: Some Introductory Remarks

3

(7)

Past Participle Agreement in French and Italian

10

(15)

Problems

10

(2)

Locality

12

(3)

Solutions

15

(6)

Subjects

21

(1)

Conclusions

21

(4)

Facets of Romance Past Participle Agreement

25

(15)

A unified theory

26

(3)

Expletives

29

(2)

ECM

31

(1)

Wh- vs. clitics

32

(2)

Postverbal NPs

34

(1)

Aux-to-comp

35

(1)

Conclusion

36

(4)

Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing

40

(20)

Clitic climbing

40

(3)

No restructuring rule

40

(1)

Intervening adverbs

41

(1)

Adjunction is to the left

42

(1)

Constraints on Clitic Climbing

43

(8)

Infinitival I

43

(1)

Causatives

43

(1)

Negation as head

44

(1)

Stepwise climbing

44

(2)

Blocking by C

46

(1)

Clitic splitting

47

(2)

Impersonals

49

(2)

Tense

51

(1)

French vs. Italian

51

(9)

Easy-to-please

51

(2)

Infinitival if

53

(1)

Auxiliaries

54

(1)

Conclusion

54

(6)

Romance Clitics, Verb Movement, and PRO

60

(38)

Romance clitics

61

(13)

Infinitives

61

(7)

Past participles

68

(3)

Split clitics

71

(2)

Finite verbs

73

(1)

PRO

74

(24)

English

74

(2)

French

76

(3)

Italian

79

(1)

Romance

80

(1)

Infinitive adjunction interferes with C0-government

81

(2)

Binding theory and PRO

83

(2)

Levels

85

(13)

Italian Negative Infinitival Imperatives and Clitic Climbing

98

(9)

Infinitives in negative imperatives

98

(2)

Clitic climbing

100

(1)

Licensing of the empty modal

100

(1)

Overt modals in negative imperatives

101

(3)

Conclusion

104

(3)

Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection

107

(24)

Possessive constructions

108

(3)

Hungarian

108

(1)

English

108

(2)

Possessive have

110

(1)

Auxiliary + past participle

111

(12)

English auxiliary have

111

(1)

Unaccusatives with have

112

(2)

Transitives with have

114

(1)

Unergatives

115

(1)

Transitives and unergatives with be

115

(2)

Reflexive clitics with be

117

(2)

Sensitivity to tense

119

(1)

Unaccusatives revisited

120

(2)

Reflexive clitics with have

122

(1)

Have for be

123

(1)

Conclusion

123

(8)

Person Morphemes and Reflexives in Italian, French, and Related Languages

131

(32)

m- and t-

131

(11)

French possessives

131

(2)

French nonpossessives

133

(1)

Italian

134

(1)

m-/t- and number

135

(2)

n-/v- in French

137

(1)

Italian n- and v-

138

(1)

m-/t- versus l-

139

(3)

s-

142

(21)

Reflexive s-

142

(3)

Reflexive s- and number

145

(2)

Further restrictions on -e

147

(1)

A restriction on reflexive s-

148

(1)

Reflexive s- and Condition B

149

(1)

Pronominal s-

150

(1)

A further question

151

(1)

Morphology and Anaphora

152

(11)

A Note on Clitic Doubling in French

163

(24)

Cardinaletti and Starke (1994)

164

(1)

Clitic doubling in French

164

(1)

Proposal

165

(1)

Gapping

166

(1)

Subjects

167

(2)

More gapping

169

(2)

Modified pronouns

171

(1)

Quantifiers

172

(1)

Quantifiers with covert nonclitic pronouns

173

(1)

More on the third-person restriction on covert nonclitic pronouns

174

(2)

An extension to covert subjects

176

(1)

Soi

177

(1)

Conclusion

177

(10)

II. English

Notes on English Agreement

187

(19)

-s as a number affix

187

(3)

Verb agreement with a wh-phrase

190

(3)

Raised auxiliaries are blew C

193

(1)

English vs. French

194

(1)

Negation and emphasis as heads

195

(2)

Zero suffixes

197

(3)

Contraction

200

(2)

*Amn't

202

(4)

Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English

206

(6)

English has inflection for number but not for person

206

(1)

Num is contentful or expletive

207

(1)

Extracted elements may adjoin to NumP

208

(1)

Analysis

209

(3)

The English Complementizer of

212

(11)

III. Universals

Overt versus Covert Movement

223

(59)

Negation

224

(10)

Scandinavian

224

(2)

English

226

(2)

More complex VPs

228

(2)

no versus some

230

(1)

Wide-scope negation

231

(3)

Subject-object asymmetry

234

(1)

Only

234

(10)

Similarities of negation

234

(3)

An important difference between only and some negation

237

(1)

Attraction by only

238

(2)

Attraction by Neg0 and not

240

(1)

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