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A Note on Development Syntax

Let me set aside some issues I will not deal with. First, I will have nothing to say about whether the methodology of the experiments discussed in this conference is sound. I am not a psycholinguist, others have already commented on this, and in any case I am more interested in discussing the syntactic consequences […]
By Juan Uriagereka
January 1, 1991

Different Strategies for Eliminating Barriers

It follows from (1) and (2) that functional projections which have a lexical specifier may be barriers, whereas functional projections specified by an empty categor y may not. 3 Finally, I will assume (contrary to Chomsky (1986b) but in line with several others) that IP gan be a barrier. This is of course the null […]
By Juan Uriagereka
January 1, 1989