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The order of operations and A/Ā interactions
Double object constructions provide an ideal context in which to investigate interactions between multiple instances of movement. With two internal...
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Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof
This paper investigates control constructions in the Niger-Congo language Wolof, which offers several insights into the phenomenon of control. First,...
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Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic
This paper argues that not all reconstruction effects can be reduced to a syntactic mechanism that selectively interprets copies at LF. The argument...
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Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation
This paper investigates an interaction between locality requirements and syntactic dependencies through the lens of hyperraising constructions in...
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Metrically conditioned /a/-syncope in Modern Hebrew compounds
In Modern Hebrew, some, but not all, nominals exhibit obligatory /a/-syncope in open syllables if they are antepretonic in a simple (nominal) word....
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Language change and the Degree Semantics Parameter
Beck et al. (
2009 ) and much follow-up research (including Bochnak2015 ; Bowler2016 ; Deal and Hohaus2019 ) argue that languages systematically differ...
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What word-prosodic typology is missing: Motivating foot structure as an analytical tool for syllable-internal prosodic oppositions
A notoriously contested subarea of phonological typology is word-prosodic typology, which governs suprasegmental structure (such as tone, syllable...
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Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy
Assimilation is a central phenomenon in phonology, yet there is little consensus on either its representation or computation. In particular, the...
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The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs
This paper explores a distinction between two phenomena that yield multiple realizations of case associated with one nominal. The first is the...
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The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese
In this paper, we propose a semantic analysis of control verbs in Japanese that take finite clauses marked by the nominalizer koto . We argue for an...
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The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton
This work explores the coupling of person-split nominative objects with anomalous subjects (Jahnsson’s Rule (JR), Person-Case Constraint (PCC)). In...
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Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison
French liaison is a type of external sandhi involving the use of a special consonant-final allomorph before vowel-initial words. Consonants occurring...
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Type-shifting in headless relative clauses
Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which...
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Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond
This paper argues based on data from Uyghur (Turkic) that clausal complementation structures involving a special form of the verb ‘say’ are actually...
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Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors
Long distance (or “exempt”) uses of anaphors in Eurasian languages are often compared to the special logophoric pronouns found in certain West...
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Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction
Recent work has claimed that (non-tonal) phonological patterns are subregular (Heinz
2011a ,b ,2018 ; Heinz and Idsardi2013 ), occupying a delimited...
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Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese
A theme in research on finiteness suggests that finiteness is an abstract formal property of clauses that can be found across languages, even though...
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Acquiring Artificial Intelligence (AI) Terminology in the Specialised Translation Class: A Gamified Strategy
Nowadays, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing unprecedented growth in almost all aspects of modern life (e.g., entertainment,...
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Revolutionising Translation with AI: Unravelling Neural Machine Translation and Generative Pre-trained Large Language Models
This work explores the technical advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) for translation, with a focus on neural machine translation (NMT) and...