We propose an extension of Stabler’s version of clitics treatment for a wider coverage of the french language. For this, we present the lexical entries needed in the lexicon. Then, we show the recognition of complex syntactic phenomenae as (left and right) dislocation, clitic climbing over modal and extraction from determiner phrase. The aim of this presentation is the syntaxsemantic interface ...

In the generative tradition, Accusative case ACC is often analyzed as a dependent Case, where being dependent means being dependent on another argument (Burzio 1986), more precisely a theta-role, or being dependent on a chain assigning Nominative case NOM to another argument (Marantz 1991), more precisely, an unmarked, i.e. non-lexically governed, case. In both approaches, ACC is a result of gr...

Minimalist grammars are a rich lexicalized syntactic formalism which inherits the depth and wide covering of the generative tradition. Nevertheless up to now there is no straightforward way to extract the predicative structure of a sentence from syntactic analyses and from the predicative structure of the lexical items. In this paper we try to apply to this richer syntactic model the traditiona...

Hirohisa Kiguchi University of Maryland at College Park 0. Introduction There has been a controversy concerning the approach to grammars. The issue is whether to take a representational approach or derivational approach. To capture syntactic phenomena, the former exploits the notion of chains and the latter uses histories of movement. Brody (1995) who advocates a representational version of the...

This paper addresses current problems of democratic instability in continental Latin America, assuming that all its countries have been at least “minimalist” democracies during the years 2000–07. To identify essential factors leading to instability, it focuses on the countries’ most recent and acute political crises. It considers two periods in the post–cold war years: 1992–99 and 2000–07. The ...