Generative grammar

This dissertation represents a comprehensive study of the structural (syntactic) and functional (pragmatic) features of the Biblical Hebrew relative clause within the linguistic framework of the Minimalist Program (as articulated in Chomsky 1995, 1998, 1999). There are two purpo…

This thesis is essentially a portfolio of four disjoint yet thematically related articles that deal with some semantic aspect or another of natural language conditionals. The thesis opens with a brief introductory chapter that offers a short yet opinionated historical overview a…

In this thesis I investigate the syntax and prosody of discontinuous classical Latin noun phrases. I argue that they are the result of the interaction of Universal Grammar with syntactic and phonological parameters of language variation.