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VP's and verb movement in Chamorro
Most GB analyses of VSO languages have assumed that these languages have an SVO clause structure in which surface order is derived by leftward...
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Lexical and Categorial Properties of Case
An importnat implication arising from the proposed account of word order is that all verbs must assign Case in Chinese. Recall that verbs assign Case...
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How to Make Parameters Work: Comments on Valian
Valian’s paper articulates an extremely important fact about language acquisition:...
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Passive, BA, and Topic Constructions
The focus of this study so far has been the relation between Case and lexical NPs. Case Theory, however, is relevant not only to overt NPs but also...
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The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory
The central challenge for modern linguistic theory is to develop a model of Universal Grammar that is, on the one hand, general enough to capture the...
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Comments on Hyams
Assuming, as usual, a theory of language acquisition in which the grammars of each stage pass into the next, 1...
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Deductive Parameters and the Growth of Empty Categories
The parametric model is extremely simple. An innate set of grammars presents a child with highly limited choices: two or three possibilities exist. A...
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Arbitrary plural pronominals
In this paper we have developed an analysis for certain pronominal elements which are interpreted as arbitrary in reference. The pronominals in...
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The AG/PRO Parameter in Early Grammars
In the last chapter we began our discussion of the pro-drop phenomenon by noting that English-speaking children frequently produce ‘subjectless’...
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Introduction
A natural theoretical perspective for a language-family-oriented anthology like the present one is that of COMPARATIVE RESEARCH. This is not to say...
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The Null Subject Phenomenon
One of the most noticeable characteristics of early language is the frequent absence of lexical subjects. Sentences like those in (1) have been...
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Two Types of Discourse in Hölderlin’s Madness
Hölderlin, who had already suffered schizophrenic attacks, became ill in 1802, i.e., in his thirty-second year — according to medical opinion, “with...