This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force

This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have sugg

This text presents evidence locating adverb phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a theory of the clause. In this theory, both adv

An argument that children are born to assign structures to their ambient language, yielding a view of language variation not based on parameters defined at UG.

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenag