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Yiannis
Katochoritis
32-D976

Syntax; Syntax/Semantics interface; Generative typology

Syntax: A/A'-distinction; Phase Unlocking, locality domains; alignment, case, syntactic ergativity; argument structure, subjecthood; Austronesian pivots, voice systems; long-distance agreement; clitic-left-dislocation, clitic-doubling

Syntax/Semantics: Quantifier Raising; binding-scope theory, reconstruction effects; distributivity; Plural Pronoun Construction; de se/de re 

I (like to) believe that there is such a thing as case-licensing in syntax, that surface subjecthood is structurally determined within VoiceP, that Phase Unlocking is (almost) on the right track, that we need more (covert) local merge and less probing from a distance, that spec-head is much more predominant than it appears, that there is syntactic and post-syntactic φ-agreement, that clitic-doubling, scrambling and object shift are the same beast, that micro-variation among languages reduces to a conspiracy of derivational timing and operational ordering.