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This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new papers which focus on developing a constrain

O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS Initial drafts of the papers in this collection were presented in a con ference entitled 'Views on Phrase Structure', held at the Univers

In the early years of generative grammar it was assumed that the appropriate mechanism for generating syntactic structures was a grammar of context-free rewriti

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Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various dire