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All non-head material must be phrasal. — Why's this principle nice idea from a mathematical point of view?

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What is the difference in a constituent and a phrase?

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What is the difference between evidential, epistemic, and evaluative fragments?

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What is the name of introductory expressions like “It is not the case that…”

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Syntactic models than span across multiple sentences

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Modern theories of Russian syntax

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When an existential verb is used existentially as the predicate to a subject, is it true in all languages that it cannot take another predicate?

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In which languages could a phrase like “We went to lunch with Bob” signify an event in which exactly two people took part?

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Is the emergence of a new quotative a syntactic innovation?

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Xp-pro-v word order in middle english

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Confusion about the CP and TP rule in Carnie

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Does Swahili have relational nouns?

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Conjunctions between complex clauses - which items do they coordinate?

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Questions about complementizers (at least, I think they're complementizers…)

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