Most of the research carried out in stylistics has devoted a great deal of its attention to the analysis of lexical devices and to the effects created by these lexical resources in the communicative utterance. This article ...

Many linguists believe that a parameter-setting model of grammar should capture typological generalizations. For example, a particular feature's cross-linguistic rarity might be 'registered' in a grammar that possesses that ...

This paper considers the possibility that the architectural properties of phrase structure can be derived from general principles rather than merely stated as stipulations. After proposing and illustrating a set of ...

As linguistic theory becomes more refined, linguists increasingly rely on subtle judgments about slight acceptability differences among complex sentences as the sole evidence motivating interesting grammatical hypotheses. ...