Problems in Syntax: Studies in Language

The definition of functions and categories.- Syntactic-morphological discrepancies in Maltese sentence structure.- Heuristic problems concerning the identification of grammatical relations: the case of the Westgermania (Dutch — English — German).- Verb complements and sentence complements: two different types of relation.- Observations on the syntax of English nominals.- Constructional properties of the sentence.- The structure of infinitival perception verb complements in a transformational grammar.- Passive in a semantic dependency network.- Verb-first clauses in Icelandic, successive cyclic wh-movement and syntactic binding.- The construction of the infinitive with causative movement verbs in French.- Generalized union.- On the status of verbal reflexives.- Reflexivization in English.- Tense and aspect.- The temporal reference of the English futurate.- Prolegomena to a semantic analysis of phase-indicating verbal periphrases in Portuguese.- Time, tense and restriction (On the French periphrasis ‘venir de + infinitive’).- The organization of grammar.- The configurational matrix.- Towards plausibility in theories of language acquisition.- References.