The Verbal Domain

Roberta D'Alessandro is Professor at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, and Chair of Syntax and Language Variation at the same university; she is also an external member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She specializes in syntactic microvariation in Italo-Romance, the syntax-PF interface, and syntactic change in contact. She is co-editor of the Open Generative Grammar series published by Language Science Press, and editor-in-chief of Brill's Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages/Romance series.Irene Franco is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Romance Languages and Literature at Goethe Universität Frankfurt, and is currently working on a project on quantification in Old Italian. Her main research interests are morphosyntactic diachronic change and variation, as well as comparative (Germanic-Romance) syntax. Her work has appeared in Isogloss, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, and MIT Working Papers, and in edited volumes from OUP and John Benjamins.Ángel J. Gallego is Professor Agregat at the Departamento de Filologia Espanyola of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica. His principal research interests and publications are in the areas of formal syntax and parametric variation (especially within Romance languages). He has published in journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Probus, and Theoretical Linguistics, and he is the author of Phase Theory (John Benjamins, 2010), and the editor of Phases. Developing the Framework (Mouton de Gruyter, 2012).

• PART I: ROOT AND VERBALIZER; PART II: VOICE; PART III: EVENT AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE

this volume provides an interesting concentrated exploration into current DM and cartographic conceptualisations of the verb phrase, with several attempts to show compatibility with a phase-theoretic approach ... give[s] thought-provoking insight as to the current state of play in The Verbal Domain.