In:The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky
Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins
[Language Faculty and Beyond 20] 2025
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Published online: 13 November 2025
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Table of contents
Preface
Terraced layers of structure-buildingIX
Section 1.Features
Chapter 1.Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number2
Anamaria Bentea
Adriana Belletti
Luigi Rizzi
Stephanie Durrleman
Chapter 2.De-gendering the plural markers of Modern Hebrew20
Noam Faust
Chapter 3.Conjunction agreement as semantic agreement34
Isabelle Charnavel
Dominique Sportiche
Chapter 4.The French suffix –el /–al56
Radwa Fathi
Jean Lowenstamm
Section 2.Empty elements
Chapter 5.Empty categories as Copy and No Transfer: Non-Obligatory Control and Partial Null Subjects80
Maria Rita Manzini
Anna Roussou
Chapter 6.Nǎlǐ nàlǐ — ça, c’est quoi? A comparative note on that and where101
Thomas Leu
Chapter 7.Licensing parasitic gaps without movement: Evidence from Hebrew resumptive pronouns118
Ivy Sichel
Rajesh Bhatt
Section 3.Subjects
Chapter 8.Styling the characters, setting the scene: Subject omission in Agatha Christie138
Liliane Haegeman
Lieven Danckaert
Chapter 9.Deriving OSV order in Cena, an emerging sign language of Brazil159
Diane Stoianov
Andrew Nevins
Chapter 10.Subjects and situations in copular sentences185
Valentina Bianchi
Chapter 11.Sentential anaphors in French: An insight in the syntax of subject clauses: Ce que “ça” dit200
Frédérique Berthelot
Chapter 12.Null subjects in Greek: Issues on structure and interpretation224
Vassilios Spyropoulos
Section 4.Extended DP layer
Chapter 13.The DP-Internal origin of datives252
Richard S. Kayne
Chapter 14.The cartography of quantity nouns in Italian279
Anna Cardinaletti
Giuliana Giusti
Chapter 15.Dims a dozen303
Hagit Borer
Chapter 16.Arabic comparatives, gradation, and variation334
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri
Section 5.Clefts, Focus, and Predication
Chapter 17.What’s in a copula? On the lightness of being356
Isabelle Roy
Chapter 18.Specificational vs. predicational wh-clefted questions in Arabic. Evidence for two (strong/weak)
PRONs: Identity vs. predication381
Ouras Aljani
Hamida Demirdache
Chapter 19.Insights into post-verbal argument reordering in Hebrew and Italian403
Cristiano Chesi
Francesco Beltrame
Chapter 20.Existentials: The view from Afroasiatic416
Jamal Ouhalla
Chapter 21.The focalizing ser construction in Brazilian Portuguese438
Sandra Quarezemin
Chapter 22.Anwa lbaṛ g ara nemlil? Taqbaylit PP-interrogatives461
Sabrina Bendjaballah
Martin Haiden
Section 6.CP Layer and wh-
Chapter 23.‘Frankly’, and the syntacticization of speech acts478
Gugliemo Cinque
Chapter 24.On ‘why’ in Brazilian Portuguese495
Simone Guesser
Flore Kedochim
Raquel Sousa
Chapter 25.Cartography, movement and reordering of arguments: A quantitative computational study511
Giuseppe Samo
Chapter 26.Long wh-questions in French: Negation doesn’t intervene where?532
Lena Baunaz
Giuliano Bocci
Ur Shlonsky
Chapter 27.Some notes on the modal existential wh construction in two Romance languages552
Gabriela Soare
Christopher Laenzlinger
Index
