Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing

Abstract

Part 1 Heads: a case for emerging functional categories, J. Kornfilt two functional categories in noun phrases - evidence from modern Hebrew, E. Ritter on the position of subjects, H. Contreras phrase structure of ellipsis in English, A. Lobeck alignment of arguments in adjective phrases, T. Stowell. Part 2 Licensing: syntactic licensing and sub-categorization, S.D. Rothstein adjunct-predicate licensing and D-structure, T.R. Rapoport a phrase structure theory for tertiaries, T. Ernst relative clauses, licensing and the nature of derivation, D. Lebeaux generalized transformations and the D-structure position of adjuncts, M. Speas.