Constraints on Some Other Variables in Syntax

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Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals (2011, background): “6.5. and Schlenker (2005a) and arguments of Percus (2000) and Speas (2004b) according to which verbs syntactically project not just a time but also a world argument.”
Binding by Verbs: Tense, Person and Mood under Attitudes (2002, background): “(Percus, 2000) considers similar examples and claims that the -operator that abstracts a proposition from an open formula must be related to the variable it binds by a sort of superiority condition: it is not possible to bind a lower world variable if there is a higher one that could be bound.”
On the event relativity of modal auxiliaries (2010, methodology): “(Percus 2000) The sentence in (36) is ambiguous between a ‘transparent’ reading, which asserts that all worlds in which every actual semanticist owns a villa in Tuscany are happy worlds (different world indices), and an ‘opaque’ reading, which states that all worlds where every semanticist in those…”
Bound 'de re' pronouns and the LFs of attitude reports (2014, background): “(13) a. John believes-w0 [λ2 [some female student-w2 [λ1 [t1 is a fool-w2]]]] 2 For further constraints on the distribution and interpretation of world pronouns, see e.g. Percus (2000).”