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Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP, 1989

Raffaella Zanuttini, Thomas Leu, Richard Kayne

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This chapter proposes that systematic syntactic differences between French and English in negation, questions, adverbs, and quantification stem from a single parameter: the 'opacity' or 'transparency' of Agreement (Agr).

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