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Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese
Phonological Phrasing and Intonation
This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure and (some instances of) focus realisation in European Portuguese (EP). The… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3776-8 (Routledge)
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Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects
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Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction
This book opens by accounting for the felicity conditions on clausal disjunction in terms of general principles of information update, and goes on to demonstrate… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3791-1 (Routledge)
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The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives
Mood and Force in Universal Grammar
This book is a cross-linguistic investigation into the structure and interpretation of imperatives and related constructions. The framework used is the Principles and Parameters… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3787-4 (Routledge)
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Clauses Without 'That'
The Case for Bare Sentential Complementation in English
This Study investigates the syntax of complement and relative clauses in English which lack overt complementizers (clauses without that). The central analytical claim is… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3775-1 (Routledge)
The Clausal Structure of Spanish
A Comparative Study
This work studies various aspects of word order and clause structure in Spanish that have proved problematic for syntactic theory. These aspects are explored… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3788-1 (Routledge)
Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions
This study presents an analysis of laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions within an Optimality Theory framework. The book will be of interest to phonologists concerned with… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3267-1 (Routledge)
Positional Faithfulness
An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries
This book examines these diverse segmental asymmetries, using Optimality Theory, a constraint-based approach to generative grammar, as an analytic tool. After introducing the notion… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3348-7 (Routledge)
Aspect, Eventuality Types and Nominal Reference
This book examines the interplay between the semantics of noun phrases and verbal predicates, with an emphasis on data drawn from Czech and English, and… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3271-8 (Routledge)
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The Articulatory Basis of Locality in Phonology
This work elucidates the nature of the notion of Locality in phonology, describing the minimal conditions under which sounds assimilate to one another. The central… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3286-2 (Routledge)
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