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1 Formal Models in the Study of Language: Introduction; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background Context; 1.2 Formal Models in the Study of Language; References; Linguistic Models; 2 A Feature-Based Account of Weak Islands; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Locality; 2.1 Impenetrability; 2.2 Intervention Locality: Relativized Minimality; 3 Extractions from Weak Islands; 3.1 Asymmetries with Weak Islands; 3.2 The Argument-Adjunct Asymmetry Revisited; 3.3 Extraction from Infinitive Weak Islands; 3.4 Wh-Adjunct Extraction Across Another Wh-Adjunct; 3.5 Animacy ([+Human]) in Wh-Argument Extraction
3.6 Categorial Feature, DP Versus PP4 Weak Islands in Other Languages; 4.1 Italian; 4.2 Romanian; 5 Feature Hierarchy for A'-Elements; 6 Conclusions; References; 3 On the Syntax and Pragmatics of Some Clause-Peripheral Positions; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Some Formal and Interpretive Properties of Topic and Focus Constructions; 3 Topics and Information Structure; 4 Types of Foci: New Information Focus Versus Corrective Focus Versus Mirative Focus; 4.1 New Information Focus; 4.2 Corrective Focus; 4.3 "Mirative" Focus; 4.4 On Some Cross-Linguistic Differences; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements
6 A Pragmatic and Philosophical Examination of Everett's Claims About PirahãAbstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Everett's Claims About Pirahã; 3 Does Pirahã Really Lack a Universal Quantifier?; 3.1 Everett's Description and Arguments; 3.2 An Alternative Account; 3.3 Truth-Conditions and Use of All; 4 The "Immediacy of Experience Principle"; 4.1 Culture as a Constraint on Language; 4.2 The Immediacy of Experience Principle as an Explanation of Pirahã's Gaps; 5 Conclusion; 7 A Perspective-Based Account of the Imperfective Paradox; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 The Imperfective Paradox
3 A Perspective-Based Approach4 Inadequacy of the Perspective-Based Approach; 5 The Event-Based Approach; 6 Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Perspective-Based Approach; 6.1 Experiment 1; 6.2 Experiment 3; 6.3 Experiment 4; 6.4 Summary; 7 A Novel Perspective-Based Account of the Imperfective Paradox; 7.1 Time and Events; 7.2 Syntax and Semantics of Tense and Aspect; 7.3 The Internal Structure of Telic Predicates; 7.4 Accounting for the Imperfective Paradox; 7.5 Atelic Predicates; 7.6 Accounting for KP's Findings; 8 A Further Extension of the Proposal: Two Classes of Ditransitive Verbs
3.6 Categorial Feature, DP Versus PP4 Weak Islands in Other Languages; 4.1 Italian; 4.2 Romanian; 5 Feature Hierarchy for A'-Elements; 6 Conclusions; References; 3 On the Syntax and Pragmatics of Some Clause-Peripheral Positions; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Some Formal and Interpretive Properties of Topic and Focus Constructions; 3 Topics and Information Structure; 4 Types of Foci: New Information Focus Versus Corrective Focus Versus Mirative Focus; 4.1 New Information Focus; 4.2 Corrective Focus; 4.3 "Mirative" Focus; 4.4 On Some Cross-Linguistic Differences; 5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements
6 A Pragmatic and Philosophical Examination of Everett's Claims About PirahãAbstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Everett's Claims About Pirahã; 3 Does Pirahã Really Lack a Universal Quantifier?; 3.1 Everett's Description and Arguments; 3.2 An Alternative Account; 3.3 Truth-Conditions and Use of All; 4 The "Immediacy of Experience Principle"; 4.1 Culture as a Constraint on Language; 4.2 The Immediacy of Experience Principle as an Explanation of Pirahã's Gaps; 5 Conclusion; 7 A Perspective-Based Account of the Imperfective Paradox; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 The Imperfective Paradox
3 A Perspective-Based Approach4 Inadequacy of the Perspective-Based Approach; 5 The Event-Based Approach; 6 Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Perspective-Based Approach; 6.1 Experiment 1; 6.2 Experiment 3; 6.3 Experiment 4; 6.4 Summary; 7 A Novel Perspective-Based Account of the Imperfective Paradox; 7.1 Time and Events; 7.2 Syntax and Semantics of Tense and Aspect; 7.3 The Internal Structure of Telic Predicates; 7.4 Accounting for the Imperfective Paradox; 7.5 Atelic Predicates; 7.6 Accounting for KP's Findings; 8 A Further Extension of the Proposal: Two Classes of Ditransitive Verbs