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This paper addresses the syntax of an understudied construction in Turinese Italian, the Fare+Che+Infinitive (FCI), which features a causative verb fa...
This paper examines scope ambiguity in doubly quantified sentences in Ukrainian, a “free” word order language. Drawing on data from a questionnaire st...
This paper argues that verb-verb compounding ellipsis (VVCE) is derived by ATB movement rather than verb stranding VP ellipsis, which confirms the vie...
Mandarin Chinese is a classifier language. Li (2011) proposes two equally accessible readings — counting and measure — for container classifier phrase...
In the literature, the three kinds of derivations have been proposed for Japanese relative clauses (see Miyamoto 2017). However, because some of the e...
This study examines how the presence and the absence of grandmothers (first-generation immigrants) affect a specific feature of the phonological syste...
This paper discusses how gender and number systems interact, focusing on morphological syncretisms of gender exponence in non-singular numbers. Workin...
This study investigates the structural position of simple wh-elements in a construction of the Bavarian left periphery, the Emphatic Topicalisation (E...
German passive(-like) constructions differ from each other in various ways. They have different morphology, passive-subjects, and add certain ‘nuances...
This study investigates two emerging syntactic constructions in contemporary Italian digital discourse: non io che and essere tipo. Drawing on a corpu...
This paper analyzes sentential negation in Ishkashimi (Eastern Iranian), arguing that a functional head Neg occupies a position in between Aspect (Asp...
This paper analyses multiple sluicing in Basque. I first describe three strategies for multiple wh-questions available in this language: multiple wh-f...
The aim of this paper is to propose a new approach to bracketing paradox phenomena in the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993). ...
In several languages, the semantics comparable to that of only can be expressed with a bi-partite construction, which consists of a negation marker an...
Eastern Armenian exhibits a three-way distinction in third person pronouns. The pronoun NA is particularly noteworthy due to its puzzling distribution...
This study seeks to investigate how the differences in age of acquisition (AoA) for sequential learners affect the acquisition of French object clitic...
This paper explores the emergence of a new expressive use of negation in Catalan and Spanish, where negation appears with proper names to express an a...
This paper explores the derivation mechanism of A-not-A questions, one of the four types of interrogatives in Mandarin Chinese. Most previous literatu...
Chamorro (Austronesian) exhibits a person-animacy restriction (PAR) with a typologically unusual property, which I refer to as 1 st -person inertness:...
This study examines the grammaticalization of Italian motion verbs (andare ‘to go’, venire ‘to come’, tornare ‘to come back’) in the “motion verb + a ...
Developments in Minimalist syntax have explored the extent to which core operations of the syntactic component can be unified through a Minimal Search...
This paper discusses the syntax of Spanish restrictive subject and object relative clauses, focusing on the categorial status of the relative element ...
This paper addresses two main syntactic issues posed by Italian tough-constructions (TCs), which, unlike English TCs, are an A-dependency: (i) TCs can...
Plural definites are known to exhibit homogeneity and non-maximality effect. The two phenomena are reported to appear and disappear together; universa...
This paper reports on an experimental study of principle C reconstruction in German ATBmovement. The results indicate that the previously reported asy...
In this paper I show that analysing Potawatomi inverse marking in Harmonic Serialism (Müller 2020), a derivational version of Optimality Theory, as a ...
Carstens (2002) argues that Muysken’s Anomaly, the observation that verb order in a serial verb construction (SVC) is independent of head directionali...
This paper explores the phenomenon of Negative Concord (NC) in West Slavic (WS) languages and challenges the comparison to the traditional Minimalist ...
This study investigates the performance of speakers on a primed lexical decision task with prefixed and pseudo-prefixed Bangla words and non-words. An...
Are literate speakers of a language with a non-linear writing system affected by orthographic syllabification in the same way as those of a language w...
This paper is an investigation into the temporal relations we find inside simple DPs. Specifically, I explore the relationship between two DP-internal...
As of 2022, a new, gender-neutral pronoun has entered the Norwegian language: hen ‘they (singular)’. In this paper, I have looked into the attitudes t...
Research in spoken word recognition shows traces of orthographic interference and similar effects were found in Bangla word recognition in a rhyme det...
This paper deals with German demonstratives from the 'der', 'die', 'das' (DPros) and 'dieser', 'diese', 'dieses' (DemPros) paradigms. We investigated ...
Against the backdrop of the pluricentricity of German, this paper deals with standard variation at the lexical level in the German-speaking Community ...
The idiosyncratic behavior of presupposition triggers and their projection has prompted diverse experimental investigations. Some experiments examine ...
This study investigates the behaviour of non-inflecting adjectives in Italian, which differ from regular adjectives in lacking gender and number agree...
This paper reports a case of belief/intent alternation in the Russian attitude verb 'dumat’ (think/intend) and connects it to a similar alternation in...
This paper focuses on Russian comparatives, particularly those commonly referred to as phrasal and argued to contain a smaller amount of elided struct...
Recently, gender sensitive alternatives towards the use of masculine generics have become an issue of public discourse in Germany. Past research on th...
Functional morphemes have been the subject of intense study in recent years. Certain functional morphemes indicate various functions and the same form...
The purpose of this paper is to propose two types of nominal licensing conditions that capture the distribution of DPs with or without abstract Case. ...
In this paper, I address the issue of phonological learnability with a focus on Kashmiri loanwords. The variation of Kashmiri recorded in this paper e...
This paper investigates the structural peculiarities of subject sharing constructions in Samoan (Polynesian). The puzzle is the absence of the subject...
The lexical V-V complex is productive and well-documented in Japanese. This paper aims to capture the parametric variation of lexical V-V compounds in...
In this paper, I propose a new analysis that accounts for the obligatory movement of the noun in the Arabic noun phrase. The analysis is based on the ...
German exhibits an independent non-verbal construction named verbless directives (VDs). VDs consist of PPs and/or particles which express directions a...
In this paper, I investigate the scope properties of indefinites marked for specificity in Algerian Arabic (AA) and English. Following Schwarzschild (...
The functional inventory of English has changed from the 1600s to today. The exclusive markers but and just have experienced opposite trajectories, wh...
This paper investigates the selectional restrictions of pre-classifier modifiers in Numeral Classifier Constructions (NCC) in Mandarin Chinese. The ad...
In this paper, I show and discuss the results of conducting an online acceptability judgment task where native speakers of Spanish were asked to rate ...
This paper looks at aspect-marked copulas that are obligatory only for matrix equative clauses in the present tense in the Eastern Indo-Aryan language...
This paper discusses the distribution of wh-elements across different constructions. In particular, it attempts to develop an account for the observat...
The current study quantitatively analyses the strategies employed by German native speakers when producing a request in instant messaging. Additionall...
In view of the central role that Case has played in modern syntactic theory, Case assignment in Standard Arabic has been extensively investigated over...
The paper examines perfective verbs with the delimitative prefix po- (podel) combining with durative adverbials (DurAds) in Slavic, primarily based on...
Past-under-past only sometimes yields simultaneous readings in non-Sequence of Tense (SOT) languages. I claim that a distinction should be made among ...
We explore the intensifying accusative clitic (IAC) ga (‘it’) in Serbian, which has no explicit antecedent, neither introduced in the previous discour...
This paper investigates the syntax of mermaid constructions in Kazym Khanty. Mermaid constructions (MMCs) consist of the following parts: [[Clause] No...
The invariable order of verbal inflectional suffixes in Hungarian has been claimed to raise issues for the Mirror Principle. While the categories Mood...
Exclamatives have been a subject of study since Elliott (1974), Grimshaw (1979), and others. Although languages have different types of exclamative cl...
The nominal structure proposed in Ritter & Wiltschko (2021), Wiltschko (2021) and McDonald et al. (in prep) divides languages with honorificity into t...
In this paper, I report the results of a forced choice experiment in which I empirically investigated whether the linguistic factor contrast between s...
This paper reconsiders islandsin Mandarin Chinese under Phase Theory, proposed by Chomsky (2000). Based on the ideas of phases by Chomsky (2008) and K...
In this paper, I adopt scope relation of Quantifier Noun Phrases (QNPs) to investigate the hierarchical structure of ditransitive constructions in HKS...
This paper presents and discusses the results from an acceptability judgment task conducted to test the complementizer-trace effect in Russian. In add...
In this paper, we investigate Finnish verbal affix order, with a focus on reflexive, causative and passive markers. Our data not only reveal affix coo...
In varieties of Basque, objects embedded into absolutive- and dative-marked nominalised complement clauses can enter a long-distance agreement relatio...
In Korean, the nominal wh-phrase mwe-l ‘what-ACC’ can be interpreted as a reason/causal wh-adjunct corresponding to 'way' (‘why’). The nominal wh-adju...
The present paper offers a content and pragmatic analysis of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan’s speeches on the Berlin Wall with the aim of providing...
This study examines how the functionalist approach of ambiguity avoidance, as an explanation for variable application of TD Deletion in US English, ca...
This study explores the contexts of occurrence of German sentence-final question tags 'ja', 'ne', 'nicht', 'gell' and 'oder' in a corpus of spontaneou...
There has been a controversy in the literature about how the raising-to-object construction (RTO) in Japanese should be analyzed. This paper sheds new...
In this paper, I provide a first look at the phonology of loanwords in Trio, a Cariban language spoken in Suriname and Brazil. Because of Trio’s restr...
The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it presents novel data from an understudied Romance variety that could help sketching a more precis...
There has been disagreement concerning whether the two types of verbal gerunds in English, POSS-ing and ACC-ing, are semantically equivalent. This stu...
While English only allows preverbal subjects in declarative contexts, it has been claimed that in Spanish unaccusative verbs, but not unergatives, lic...
In this paper, I investigated the behaviors of neighboring creaky tone of Burmese, in relation to the low tone which has been regarded as the one like...
This paper addresses German zero-nominals such as '(der) Lauf' ‘(the) run’ (↔ 'laufen' ‘to run’), whose theoretical modeling is challenging in the abs...
The paper reopens the question of 'though' as a discourse marker with new data and an attempt at refining the points along the pathway. A total of 217...
This paper presents observations on phonetic realisations of the German particles <ja> – ‘yes’ and <naja> – ‘well’. During a large-scale study on the ...
In this paper, I discuss the distributivity and locality of floating numeral quantifiers in Japanese. The challenge is that they are weakly distributi...
This paper deals with the syntax of exceptive constructions in Hill Mari and Moksha Mordvin. In Hill Mari the semantics of exception is conveyed by th...
I propose a new discourse model that can represent goals, beliefs, and their interrelationships. Using insights about the interpretation of biscuit an...
This paper explores the syntactic formation of proper names. Due to their syntactic productivity and internal complexity, work stemming from Longobard...
This paper investigates the contrast between Verbal and Deverbal Nominals in Polish. VNs encode aspectual distinctions and incorporate verbal suffixes...
Hiraiwa & Ishihara (2002, 2012) argue that the derivation of Japanese clefts involves movement of a focused element to FocP. Even though their analysi...
Disjunction is used to connect multiple options when there is insufficient information to determine which one is true. However, free choice disjunctio...
In this paper I discuss the interaction of sentential negation with the Russian modal verb 'moč' ‘can, may’ on root vs epistemic reading. More specifi...
This paper presents results of a corpus study on the South-Cushitic language Gorwaa which investigated the ‘enigmatic’ '-oo/-(h)ee' suffix (Mous & Qor...
This paper focuses mainly on the properties of n-words and aims to maintain that Herburger’s (2001) lexical ambiguity hypothesis can be motivated theo...
I propose an analysis for tonal alternations at the prefix–stem boundary in Tenyidie, where Mid tones in prefixes and stems dissimilate. I argue that ...
Polar interrogatives in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) are obligatorily marked with a specific combination of nonmanual marking features and optionally m...
This paper provides an account of allomorphy in the domain of verbal number in Georgian (Kartvelian). Cross-linguistically, verbal number is often ass...
This paper focuses on the morphosyntax of generic subjects in novel concept acquisition. Pitting the well-studied bare plural against the indefinite a...
We claim that Japanese honorification involves no dedicated grammatical apparatus, contra longstanding analytical tradition. Examining the components ...
This paper provides an analysis of the syntax of plural marking with òtúro in Ògè, a language of the Benue-Congo region spoken in Nigeria. Recent rese...
This paper addresses the issue of licensing negative polarity items in Russian nominalizations. Negation in nominalizations provides negative concord ...
Rappaport Hovav & Levin (2010) argue that verbs fall into two classes, i.e. result verbs (e.g. kill), which encode a result state, and manner verbs (e...
This paper deals with comitative constructions in some Finno-Ugric languages, mainly in Hill Mari, Moksha Mordvin and Kazym Khanty, using the data of ...
This study revisits the debate on the Tagalog alignment system, more specifically, on the puzzling nature of the phrase marked by ang. We argue that v...
This article investigates what interpretations are available when a disjunctive phrase is phonetically null in a negative sentence. Sakamoto (2015) sh...
The aim of the present article is to provide both theoretical and empirical evidence to the effect that Hungarian lexically headed relative clauses ca...
I argue that the inferences and constraints of the English present perfect can be derived as a result of the competition with an alternative with stro...
This paper poses three challenges that any account for sentence adverbs has to account for, the answer problem, the projection problem, and the commit...
Mandarin Chinese has many simple word forms that can receive a change-of-state (CoS) interpretation when combining with the aspectual marker -le, and ...
In this paper I discuss the Buryat multifunctional negative marker ʉgej (-gʉj). Apart from the role of ‘standard’ negator, this marker also forms nega...
In the present paper we report on a cross-linguistic artificial grammar learning study, whose objective was twofold. On the methodological side, its g...
This paper examines how tense in embedded clauses interacts with the past tense of an embedding clause in English and Japanese. I propose that the ten...
This paper has two main goals. First, it highlights an empirical observation about the so-called inherent complement verb constructions in Kwa (Niger-...
This study discusses lexical preferences as a factor affecting the word order variation in Dutch verbal clusters. There are two grammatical word order...
This paper addresses the semantics of nouns prefixed by non- in French from a construction morphology perspective (Booij 2010; Goldberg 2006; Croft & ...
In this paper, I examine a type of impersonal sentence in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in which an arbitrary participant reading is present in spite of t...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of BE X TO structures in English via the analysis of the quasi-modal BE ABLE TO. Based on previous ac...
This paper investigates the inferences of ignorance that come with superlative numerals, like at least n and at most n. It argues that these are bette...
The aim of this paper is to provide an account of denominal verbs in English and Romanian in a phrasal spell-out framework (Pantcheva 2011, Starke 200...
The paper reports on two experiments in which I tested whether Hungarian children can process the exhaustivity of sentences containing the focus parti...
Based on a series of examples from the UPUS-Project (Linguistic Development in Urban Environments), this paper provides an overview of the main innova...
This paper explores the feasability of a novel movement approach to resumption in relativization contexts. Previous analyses which often rely on base ...
This article is meant to show how central Firth's particular position towards the phoneme is, in terms of constitution of the concept of phonaesthesia...
The paper proposes a determiner phrase (henceforth DP) analysis of nominal expressions in article-less Serbo-Croatian, arguing that, besides Cinque's ...
This paper deals with 'double passivization' in Turkish, an impersonal passive construction with two occurrences of passive morphology and two instanc...
This paper advances a new approach to the syntax-PF mapping of movement chains. It is argued that Non-Distinctiveness of copies can be defined as an i...
Many scholars have proposed a Speech Act Phrase (SAP) high in the left periphery that is said to encode aspects of the discourse context, including il...
This paper analyzes the argument structure of N(oun)-V(erb) complex predicates in the Muş dialect of Kurmanji and makes three claims: (i) N-V complex ...
This paper explores the information structural status of exclamative utterances. Specifically, it addresses the issue of whether the propositional con...
This study examines two different floating L tones (L) in Kikuyu (Bantu E51): A lexical L and a phrasal L which appears in assertive utterances. Based...
In this paper, I argue that stress is not a phonological primitive. In the CVCV framework, both stress and boundaries have a skeletal exponent that co...
Based on English participial allomorphy, Embick (2003) proposes a division of vocabulary insertion into an inner cycle targeting root-attached and an ...
This paper makes two claims: first I will show that languages have the strategy to mark switchreference (SR) syntactically. This finding is interestin...
In this paper, I argue for the existence of 'forked chains' in Across-the-board movement. Phenomena from German like across the board WH-copying, case...
In this paper I will propose an analysis of optional dative nominals that occur in the sentence-initial position in a number of structures in Polish. ...
Kambera, a Malayo-Polynesian language, shows a new version of the Person-Case Constraint (PCC), disallowing any combination of phonologically weak obj...
This paper looks at German modal particles from the perspective of discourse structure. Using the discourse relations proposed by Rhetorical Structure...
The characterization of a speaker's vocal quality can permit the identification of his particular phonetic settings and the use of his anatomic mechan...
Evidentiality has received various analyses, most of them modal or illocutionary ones. Data from Aymara give substantiation to another kind, a tempora...
This paper discusses preposition (P) omission under sluicing (John talked with someone but I don't know _ who) and the ability of P to take a clitic p...
Gapping has been classically characterized as an ellipsis. However, recent literature (Johnson 2009) has regarded it as Across-the-Board movement in t...
In this paper I will argue, that due to empirical reasons, the existing analyses for split ergativity in subordination cannot be used to explain the d...
I discuss the pragmatics of subjectivity, showing that the subjectivity of multdimensional predicates maps to how well (how poorly) speakers can commu...
This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shi...
This paper investigates whether Chinese learners acquire both the syntactic and discourse-pragmatic properties of null subjects in European Portuguese...
In this paper I provide a formal analysis of the English hedge sorta, concentrating on its use with verb phrases. I bring to light new data showing ho...
I argue that neither purely structural (e.g. Bartos 1999) nor purely semantic approaches (e.g. Coppock 2013) to the distribution of Hungarian verb par...
This paper brings together insights from cross-linguistic research on grammatical variation in comparison constructions (Beck et al. 2009), first lang...
This paper focuses on the encoding of contrast in European Portuguese (EP), specifically by analysing contrastive parallelism structures, which seem t...
This paper investigates the occurrence and resolution of non-adult like negative utterances in a case study focussing on a German-English bilingual ch...
In addition to their 'exactly n' interpretation, numerals can receive non-exact readings, like 'at least n'. Since in Hungarian the interpretation of ...
This paper investigates the interaction between two phenomena related to the transparency status of nonfinite complements in Spanish and Catalan: Clit...
This paper proposes a non-paradigmatic analysis of the Basque case system that facilitates a unified analysis of two anomalies in the distribution of ...
Role shift is a sign language specific mode of quotation, combining properties of direct and indirect discourse. By using non-manual markers, sign lan...
This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to adjudicate between two theoretical accounts of de re/de dicto ambiguity: the scope account...
In this paper, two constructions which have been described in the literature as involving missing/null objects denoting indeterminate humans will be c...
In this paper I explore in detail the internal aspectual structure of events focusing on two Spanish change of state verbs. I begin by establishing th...
This study aims at investigating the adaptation of the loan words in Turkish and their relation to vowel harmony. I specifically focus on the loan wor...
This paper proposes a novel account of non-identical pronoun doubling in Dutch long-distance A-bar dependencies – specifically wh-questions and restri...
In this paper we approach the analytic causative construction (ACC) from a comparative perspective. Based on a comparison between Italian and German, ...
It is a familiar fact that crosslinguistically wh- Echo Questions present considerable challenges to traditional theories of syntax of non-echo wh-int...
The aim of this paper is to provide novel support for Chomsky’s (2000) conception of C-T relation by examining Japanese te-clauses. Te-clauses, as oft...
In this paper I show that thematic structure alternations (agentive/nonagentive subject alternation and animate/inanimate object alternation) affect r...
This paper describes a case of paradigm leveling recently attested in the present subjunctive of a Spanish dialect spoken in Uruguay. With the aim of ...
In this paper I propose that in the nominal domain of Cypriot Maronite Arabic there are two separate Functional Sequences that are inserted one inside...
In this paper, the differences between two kinds of um-clauses will be examined. After showing that there is a semantic difference between purpose and...
This paper discusses a new approach to Romance ditransitive constructions and argues against a quite general trend, which consists of attempting to mi...
In this paper I argue, drawing on data from an experiment on /r/ in Romanian and data from other languages, in favor of the hypothesis that the rhotic...
This paper investigates plural agreement that is triggered by collective NPs that are morphologically singular in British English. Plural collective n...
Bromberger and Halle (1989) claimed that rule ordering is a necessary part of phonology, but not of syntax, and that phonology and syntax are thus dif...
This paper presents two experimentally confirmed observations about contrastive topics (CTs) in German: subparts of CTs can appear in the left periphe...
The paper re-examines the hodiernal Present Perfect (henceforth PrP) and shows that the nature of termination is not linked to outer aspect, but to th...
Grammar competition usually involves structured variation with two variants. However, it is also possible that two competing rules do not involve the ...
The paper discusses the occurrence and the licensing factors of Embedded Root Phenomena in German and in English. Mostly, embedded V2 in German and em...
In this paper I present an analysis of the argument structure of the Russian be-possessive. I claim that the be-possessive is an existential statement...
This paper presents a new approach to parasitic gaps which is able to implement the observation that two gaps have only one antecedent by transferring...
In this paper, we show how Baker’s (1988) account of noun incorporation, which was formulated in a Government & Binding framework, can be transferred ...
In this paper I address a number of issues related to the was-f¨ur-construction in German. I suggest a route to an analysis that is not construction-s...
In colloquial Dutch the higher and the lower clause of long-distance relative clauses (RCs) can both be introduced by a relative pronoun. I argue that...
A self-paced reading experiment examined the processing of long-distance wh-dependencies. Some wh-dependencies were D(iscourse)-linked (i.e. involved ...
As in many languages, personal pronouns in Plngawan Atayal are usually clitics. If two such pronouns co-occur in a clause, they form a cluster with st...
This work offers experimental support for the hypothesis that some indefinite noun phrases do not only introduce new referents but also equip them wit...
This paper discusses the focus sensitivity of modal and evaluative sentence adverbs as probably, maybe and unfortunately, surprisingly. Using ways of ...
The distribution of floating quantifiers and associates of existential constructions provide the most compelling evidence in English for the vP-intern...
In this paper, a new method for multiple sequence alignment in historical linguistics is presented. The algorithm is based on the traditional framewor...
The gradual aspect of the Jespersen cycle unfolds in various languages by the synchronic co-existence of negative strategies standardly associated wit...
In this paper, I argue against the standard view of split topics as discontinuous noun phrases. Instead, I show that split topics involve two autonomo...
In this paper a new analysis is proposed for Modern Hebrew (ze-) clefts. Evidence is provided for analyzing clefts as copular sentences containing a m...
Epistemic modals exhibit behaviors that on the one hand support classical theories, which view these modals as truth-conditional while on the other su...
In this paper, I argue that affix copying in the verbal paradigms of different Kiranti languages is triggered by defective phonological structure in t...
Not all languages that feature complex resultative constructions permit them when the resultative predicate is an AP. Well-known data from Slavic and ...
The paper discusses V2 order in German adverbial clauses expressing causation. As an embedded root phenomenon, V2 order in adverbial clauses is associ...
This paper provides an empirical argument against the complex predicate analysis of the two types of secondary predication – depictive and resultative...
Dutch dialects show a wealth of variation in the distribution and the status of the elements die and dat in the left periphery of (long-distance) rest...
In this paper I discuss hidden lexical entries: forms that are assumed to be represented in the mental lexicon even though they do not exist in the ac...
In this paper, we discuss theme vowels in Modern Hebrew and Italian. These vowels reveal a morphological phenomenon that cannot be attributed to the s...
In languages with global case splits (GCS), an overt case marker shows up on one of the arguments of a transitive verb if the internal argument is hig...
In this paper I propose a unified account for both local and global case splits in terms of local impoverishment. My main claim is that impoverishment...
In this paper I evaluate the claim that semantic difficulties underlie young English-acquiring children’s poor performance on the passive construction...
In this paper, I show that restrictive relative clauses can be internally headed by a DP, not, as is standardly assumed, an NP. Syntactically, the int...
In this paper I look into some problems concerning Catalan third person dative clitics, with a focus on their internal structure. These clitics show a...
In this paper I discuss and compare two types of questions in Romanian, namely multiple questions, where all interrogatives (WHs) appear in clause ini...
This article addresses a number of unresolved issues regarding the spell-out of wh-phrases in intermediate SpecCPs in partial wh-movement and wh-copy ...
Noun Incorporation (NI) in Japanese has been treated as an instance of head movement in the previous literature. In this paper, I argue that NI is not...
This paper deals with the question whether subphonemic phenomena like phonetically measureable constistent reduction processes have any theoretical, o...
This paper explores the syntactic behaviour of two classes of apparently synonymous prepositions in Serbian. It is shown that the two classes differ i...
This paper re-examines the empirical data taken to support the unergative misanalysis of unaccusative verbs in L1 acquisition. Two types of data are d...
Dobler (to appear) shows that there are two groups of causative verbs. Whereas the direct object of verbs expressing a change of location (e.g. put) c...
It has been recently argued (Szabolcsi 2004) that the distribution of positive polarity items can be accounted for in terms of negative polarity items...
This paper deals with restrictions holding between onsets and rimes in Mandarin Chinese words. Based on general principles of the theory of Government...
This paper studies the interpretive aspects of sentence amalgamation. It is argued that the amalgamation of clauses affects the way their propositions...
This study addresses the correlation between valence changing operations and morpho-phonology in Modern Hebrew. I examine the formations of reflexive,...
I argue in this paper that the pre-classifier adjectival modification of big/small is a distinctive linguistic phenomenon. Classifiers are ambiguous b...
Since the mid-1970’s it is well known that tone in many languages behaves independently from its tone bearing unit, and conspiracy arguments lead to c...
This paper provides an analysis of the so-called C(ognate) O(bject) C(onstruction) (eg. He sighed a weary sigh) on the basis of a syntactic theory of ...
German features a variety of evidential strategies, i.e. ways to express the speaker’s type of source of information for a proposition. The evidential...
Noun-Verb Incorporation (NVI) is optional with some nominals but obligatory with others in Japanese. In this paper, I argue that the obligatory or opt...
In this paper, I deal with the syllabification of an unstressed high vowel (H) followed by a vowel (V) in a CHV context. Unstressed H is expected to s...
In the sententialist view of intensionality, intensionality arises only in bi-clausal contexts. However, not all bi-clausal contexts give rise to inte...
Recent analyses (Beck & Johnson 2004; von Stechow 2007) for lexical causatives propose that the direct object is the argument of the verb rather than ...
In this paper, I propose that Right Node Raising (RNR) is an ellipsis phenomenon and licensed by a variant of the E(llipsis) feature (i.e. ERNR). The ...
After offering a slight modification of the version of the copy theory of movement in Fox (2002), I investigate how that theory would deal with semant...
This paper investigates the Korean ditransitive construction consisting of the Goal (IO), a dative-case marked NP -ey(key), and the Theme (DO), an acc...
In this paper I investigate the restrictions on the use of bare partitives in Dutch. My main claim is that these restrictions originate in the competi...
In the literature of tonology, it is generally assumed that contour tones are more marked than level tones, as they are more 'complicated', or more di...
In this paper I address the issue of consonantal intervention in vowel harmony. A consonant may be eligible to block harmony at the segmental level, b...
This paper discusses two major classes of stative verbs: those displaying a systematic stative/eventive ambiguity, and those allowing for a stative re...
In this paper, I will redefine standard formulations of aspect, using partial ordering structures (i.e., lattices) on intervals. I will show that such...
The aim of this paper is to examine the syntactic position of wh-in situ in Greek multiple questions. It is argued that non-fronted wh-elements in mat...
The main goal of this paper is to show that the behaviour of voicing in obstruents can better be accounted for if we assume that voicing is represente...
This paper proposes a solution to three related phenomena: (i) an asymmetry in scopal behavior of wh-phrases in questions and relatives, (ii) a symmet...
This paper addresses the question of classifiers in languages with plural morphology. I will propose that pseudo-partitives of the quantitative type (...
The existence of well-formed cases of wh-movement out of adjuncts constitutes a challenge to current locality theories. However, the fact that such ex...
It has been argued in the literature that branching onsets should be dispensed with by introducing complex segments. These were claimed to be obstruen...
Events have three properties: they have causes and effects, they need a time and space zone and they can happen. In his work, Davidson (1967, 1969) ar...
I argue in this paper that across-the-board movement constructions are derived by applying deletion to a full sentential coordinate structure in PF. T...
The paper presents a unified analysis of the external and internal Slavic verb-prefixes, treating them as markers of agreement between the phrases rep...
Ambisyllabicity` is often used by phonologists, especially when they deal with the distribution of long and short vowels in German. Even if it is a ve...
In this paper I develop a derivational approach to linearization under a (version of the) level-free derivational approach to syntactic relations (Eps...
This paper explores the properties (and limits) of Merge, arguing, with Uriagereka (2005, forthcoming), that it is a natural reflection of the so-call...
This paper discusses data from English, Dutch, and German and argues that these languages have no spatial prepositions that are lexically ambiguous be...
In this paper, we propose that movement of the consequent state of a structurally complex event to a discourse-related position right above vP is the ...
This paper introduces new data from Scandinavian in the discussion of the Pseudogapping phenomenon. It will be shown that data from Icelandic in parti...
The present article offers theoretical and empirical motivation for the licensing of verb-phrase ellipsis. It puts forth an interface-based generaliza...
This paper argues that case and inner aspect are independent syntactic relations. In particular I argue that there is no direct syntactic relation bet...
Slovenian non-finite complementation appears to be a good testing ground for determining the structural properties of non-finite complement clauses. I...
This paper analyses three different, though morphologically similar types of constructions, which employ the “participial” form of the verb, The parti...
This paper considers the interaction of morphology and syntax in the development of head movement, specifically in the development of V-to-C movement ...
This paper presents a semantics for bare plurals in English, in their indefinite reading. It focuses on an old problem - dependent plurality - from a ...
Non-local binding of anaphors is one of the most discussed issues in the theory of anaphora. The classical analysis, starting with Pica (1987), connec...
This paper sets out to provide an apparatus for dealing with the semantics of some coordinated structures — specifically, with plain distributive and ...
This paper argues that English clausal comparatives are generated by means of two different syntactic derivations. Comparative deletion structures are...
This paper first observes that a bare NP in Japanese can bear a wide scope universal reading over negation, and that its universal reading is not avai...
A new approach to agrammatic comprehension in Broca’s aphasics is proposed that provides a link between processing based and representational approach...
The terms ‘marked’ and ‘unmarked’ can be interpreted in many different ways. One interpretation is that markedness is induced from ‘phonetic knowledge...
This paper consists of two parts. The first part argues that existing accounts of anankastic conditionals make the wrong predictions in scenarios with...
This paper deals with extraposition of relative clauses in English and German. Through the examination of data, it will be argued that extraposition i...
The paper suggests that the phonotactics of languages often displays gradual, non-categorical patterns, in the sense that not all possible combination...
Recent typological studies (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004) argue that segments participating in consonant harmony systems must be highly similar to...
Percus & Sauerland (2003) use quantified belief reports of the form Only Peteri thinks hei’s . . . to argue for dedicated de se LFs. The argument is t...
The paper discusses the phenomenon of null verbs and provides evidence for three different null verbs in Slovenian. We argue that what looks like a V°...
It is well known that words like unhappier give rise to bracketing paradoxes (Pesetsky 1979, 1985; Kiparsky 1982; Sproat 1992; Lieber 1992; Hoeksema 1...
This paper presents data on the near-merger of low back vowels in American English, and shows that neither classical OT nor the variable rule framewor...
This paper explores the division of labour between the lexicon and phonetic implementation in exemplar-based phonological representation on the basis ...
This paper will examine the role of focus structure and prosody in the determination of socalled floating quantifiers’ (FQ) placement. Prosody will be...
The paper argues for a single uniform meaning of the German present perfect in the spirit of an Extended Now theory (McCoard 1978). As only context fu...
This paper provides an analysis of an alternative strategy to A’-movement in both German and Dutch where the extracted constituent is preceded by a pr...
I propose an analysis of indefinites with a bound variable in the nominal restriction, which is based on Schwarzschild’s domain restriction theory. Th...
The paper argues for the universality of the grammatical aspectual categories perfective and imperfective. They are shown to be present even in langua...
This paper proposes that the specificity condition is an instance of crossover, by appealing to the semantics of definite/specific DPs: since indexica...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the status and the organisation of the vocabulary in Distributed Morphology (DM) (Halle and Marantz 1993)....
In this paper we introduce a dynamic programming algorithm to perform linear text segmentation by global minimization of a segmentation cost function ...
This paper outlines a novel LFG-theoretic analysis of modal/evaluative predicate+infinitive constructions in Hungarian in which the infinitival argume...
This paper describes the transparent free relative construction as a variant of the free relative construction. Four analyses are described, viz. the ...
The paper discusses a surprisingly non-Boolean reading of German imperative conjunctions. I explore the conceptual and empirical disadvantages of a se...
In this paper, we present a generative morphosyntactic account of the development of the Romance conditional verb forms from the Latin periphrasis ‘in...
This paper investigates the production of root wh-questions, clefts, topics and embedded declaratives by three children acquiring European Portuguese ...
Natural language expressions are generally underspecified and need specification of different kinds to get a contextually relevant interpretation. One...
In this paper, I study the interactions between the semantics of specific indefinites and the mechanisms that achieve distributivity. I argue that by ...
The aim of this paper is to review the typology of multiple wh-questions in order to describe and classify a language type that has been ignored in th...
Ergative patterns are encountered in only a quarter of the world’s languages. Often, the absolutive-ergative pattern co-occurs with a nominative-accus...
This paper proposes a new way of analyzing a special kind of item, called Free Choice Items (FCIs). As the name reveals, these items express freedom o...
The interpolation of verb-initial clauses in German has been analyzed as extraction of a constituent from the embedded clause to the matrix clause in ...
This paper deals with morphological exchanges in concatenative and non-concatenative polymorphemic words in Spoken German. Exchanges were elicited in ...
In this paper I will show that whenever a language has a negative marker that is a syntactic head, this language exhibits Negative Concord (NC); langu...
In this paper, I show that Italian impersonal si constructions with verb-object agreement and Icelandic quirky dative constructions have much in commo...
VP-preposed sentences in English are, contrary to earlier claims in the literature, found to be scopally ambiguous between a subject wide-scope and an...
In this paper I examine some word order alternations in Russian and compare them to their Romance (mainly Italian) counterparts. I argue that in a lan...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the internal constituent structure of the verbal forms in Modern Greek. The evidence presented shows that ...
This paper is concerned with the so-called ‘out-of-control’ morphology (hence, forth. OOC). which is attested in Salish languages (cf. Davis and Demir...
This paper investigates constructions in Japanese that lack matrix verb and tense, particularly focusing on a type of quotative construction. It is ob...
This paper discusses the properties of adjectival agreement in noun phrases in Standard Arabic. Arabic has a particular construction, in which an adje...
This paper focuses on adult second language acquisition of German Verb Second by native speakers of Italian. We will investigate original L2 German da...
I argue that so called ‘habitual sentences’ contain an extensional HAB-operator that is different from the generic operator. It locates points of time...
In this paper, I examine Verb Raising and Restructuring in Tagalog. I present evidence that shows that Tagalog Restructuring embedded clauses contain ...
The paper focuses on Case properties of Russian numerals assumed by previous accounts to involve Case conflicts (Franks, 1994). Resolution of Case con...
In this paper, we will show that the widespread assumption according to which French is a language with no bare nouns is too strong: French does have ...
The morpho-lexico-syntactic properties of Polish -no/-to structures form a mixture of the defining properties of actives and passives. There have been...
Syntactically ergative languages like Dyirbal challenge generative syntactic theories. They treat the direct object as the highest argument in the cla...
Imperative verbs displaying no overt inflectional marking for their mood specification never demand any explicit identification of their addressee. Co...
Italian impersonal si constructions show a number of puzzling properties, which have been largely examined by Cinque (1988), Chierchia (1995) and Dobr...
The purpose of this paper is to give a unified account of Hungarian voice assimilation phenomena in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smole...
The purpose of this paper is to give a unified account of Hungarian voice assimilation phenomena in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smole...
This paper presents an Optimality Theoretic analysis of a bisyllabic reduplication pattern found in the Central Algonquian language Fox (discussed by ...
Unlike Germanic, Italian and many other languages from different language families allow wh- clauses to occur as the complement of existential predica...
The aim of this paper is to provide additional evidence for dynamic top-down derivations (Phillips 1996, Drury 1998, Guimarães 1999, Richards 1999). T...
This paper discusses frozen scope in Russian, and links it to discourse function. It is argued that covert QR as well as reconstruction are restricted...
This paper discusses parametric variation regarding scope rigidity. My proposal is that this parametric variation is reducible to the headedness. Spec...
This paper sets out to challenge the widely held assumption that the Direct Dependency Approach (DDA) is the most suitable analysis for the was-wconst...
The subject of this paper is French stylistic inversion in temporal subordinates. In line with Cinque (1999), it is shown that, while non-inverted ver...
Triggered Inversion (TI) in Hebrew has been previously analyzed as canonical A'-movement to the specifier position of a functional projection in the C...
This paper addresses the grammatical status of pronominal clitics in European Portuguese (henceforth EP). Based on properties displayed by the clitic-...
In Balearic Catalan, verbal forms that correspond to the first person of present indicative do not show an explicit inflectional morph, unlike most di...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the main properties of New High German Ablaut and Umlaut in the light of concepts that were recently developed wit...
This paper investigates sentences whose subject can be interpreted either as an Agent or an Affectee in Japanese and English. It argues that a purely ...
This article presents original acoustic data on syllabic /l/ and syllabic /n/ in Southern British English and proposes a new phonological account of t...