DISSERTATION:

My dissertation Prolific Peripheries: A Radical View from the Left is available for download. A much better place to get started with my Domain-driven dynamic approach to syntax is my book, Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of Movement Dependencies, which appeared in October 2003 (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins).

Note: it's the originally submitted version (December 4, 2000) and contains -- apart from stylistic awkwardness -- plenty of typos, missing references etc. I am currently revising it extensively for my forthcoming monogrpah Prolific Domains. On the Anti-Locality of Movement Dependencies (Amsterdam: John Benjamins; expected: December 2003). Besides being freed of the original chapter 5 on Wh-movement (which will appear in Boeckx & Grohmann's forthcoming Multiple Wh-Fronting, Amsterdam: John Benjamins; expected: October 2003), it will contain a lot of additional material (an exposition of Rigorous Minimalism, an investigation of the nominal layer, and a revisit of successive cyclicity).

DISSERTATION FULL VERSION IN ONE FILE [331pp.]
Title Cover, Copyright, Abstract [4pp.]
Love Dedication, Acknowledgements [2pp.]
TOC Table of Contents, List of Tables [5pp.]
Chapter 1 Prolific Peripheries: By Way of Introduction [32pp.]
Chapter 2 Anti-Locality: Prolific Domains and Exclusivity [46pp.]
Chapter 3 Copy Spell Out: X'-Theory, Prolific Domains and Local Anaphoricity [66pp.]
Chapter 4 Left Dislocation Constructions: Movement vs. Construal and Copy Spell Out [70pp.]
Chapter 5 (Multiple) Wh-Question Formation: Movement, Interpretation and Typology [66pp.]
Chapter 6 Picking up the Pieces: A Radical View from the Left [20pp.]
Bibliography all the way up to page 320 [20pp.]

There is also a review of my dissertation by Sergio Menuzzi (incl. my summary), published in GLOT 6.6.

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CREATED: NOVEMBER 7, 2001
BY KLEANTHES K. GROHMANN
UPDATED: November 20, 2006