(January 2008, to appear in a festschrift).

The point that Chomsky (1995, 160) makes concerning Case chains can be put as follows: (1) Languages themselves are never the immediate locus of parametric variation. Rather, parametric variation across languages/grammars is to be thought of in terms of varying features/properties of corresponding items of the lexicons of the languages in question.

(April 2007 - to appear in the proceedings of GLOW 2006).

(4) Jean apprécie ce livre-là. (‘Jean appreciates ce book-there’) (5) Jean apprécie ce livre-ci. (‘Jean appreciates ce book-here’) in a way that recalls in part non-standard English: (6) John is reading that there book. (7) John is reading this here book. with (6) akin to (4) and with (7) akin to (5). The difference in word order, whereby English has there/here prenominal in (6)/(7) and French has - là/-ci postnominal in (4)/(5), was analyzed by Bernstein (1997) in terms of a (...) movement operation that in French moves the noun to the left of -là/-ci, starting from an English-like order, in a way that recalls the difference between French and English adjective position, as in Cinque (2005; to appear). English allows that and this to occur without any visible noun present, as in. (shrink)