This book is a research monograph on impersonal si constructions (ISC) in Italian within the Minimalist program framework. The book offers a new point of view o

Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential

This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning f

This volume of papers grew out of a research project on "Cross-Linguistic Quantification" originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage

Sumerian, probably the earliest attested language in human history, has no known cognates. Accordingly, many features of Sumerian grammar are still under discus

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of lin

This book addresses the realization of pronominal subjects in Bulgarian and its implications for late near-native competence of German as a second/foreign langu

This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive