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Compilation and Prosodic Analysis of Data
In this chapter we set out the functional phonological principles that have informed our transcription of the data compiled from the first London...
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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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In favour of the low IP area in the Arabic clause structure
Empirical evidence is provided for the existence of a discourse-related area between TP and vP in Jordanian Arabic (JA), a finding which is in line...
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Indirectly direct: An account of demonstratives and pointing
There has been a long debate on whether demonstratives are directly referential as Kaplan originally argued, or indirectly referential like a...
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Indexical shift in Tabasaran
The Nakh-Daghestanian language Tabasaran displays indexical shift in the reported speech construction. Having many properties in common with...
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Logico-Semantic and Rhetorical Analysis of Verbal Clause Complexes
In this chapter, the concept of clause complex and the system of clause complexing will be firstly introduced in Sect. 5.1. Section 5.2 will analyze...
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Microsyntax meets macrosyntax: Russian neg-words revisited
This paper offers a new analysis of Russian syntactic idioms consisting of stressed general negation n´e - fused with a wh -word ( k -word). The elements...
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Being as big as small clauses get: the syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English
This paper presents a comparative syntactic account of participial adjuncts in German and English. While the typological literature describes German...
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Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian
The primary goal of this paper is to understand the information structure of right dislocation (RD). I report a variation in RD in Asian languages...
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A Panorama of South Asian Relatives: A Case of Structural Convergence, Divergence, Innovation and Syntactic Change
This paper attempts to study variation, structural commonalities and innovations made in the formation of full-fledged (the wh-type of English) and...
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The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian
I explore the ongoing language change in which the impersonal modal word možno ‘can, be possible’ takes a personal clause ( možno + nom ) as its...
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A Correlative Typology Mixing Syntactic and Semantic Parameters
The Dravidian correlative is formed with a wh-item containing sentence with -oo at the clause edge. The disjunction marker -oo in Dravidian languages...
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In the thick of it: scope rivalry in past counterfactuals of Pomerano
This paper analyzes the morphosyntactic variation in past counterfactuals with modal verbs in Pomerano, a Low German variety spoken in Brazil. The...
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“You are quite funny paa!”: A corpus-based study of borrowed discourse-pragmatic features in Ghanaian English
This study explores six borrowed discourse-pragmatic features – koraa/kraa, saa, paa, yoo, wai/wae , and waa ,– which are borrowed from indigenous...
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Semitic Calques in Biblical Greek: The Case-Study of Formulaic Participial Clauses
This contribution addresses the construction called “participial clause” in Biblical Greek, which is a nominal clause with a participle as main...
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Enough clauses, (non)finiteness, and modality
Infinitives are known to encode covert modality in certain environments including infinitival relatives and questions. Beyond these environments,...
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Analysis of however: Clause Positions and the Implications for Logico-Semantic Relations
As mentioned in Chap. 4, Sect. 4.1 , in sharp contrast to the significant overuse of but by Chinese EFL learners as compared with their...
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The External Syntax of Conditional Clauses
The chapter looks at the typology of conditional clauses against the background of the wider typology of adverbial clauses, focusing on their...
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The right node raising analysis of coordinated wh-questions in Japanese
In this paper, I argue for the right node raising (RNR) analysis of coordinated wh -questions in Japanese, according to which verbs or their larger...
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Investigating Limits to Processing Variability in SOV Languages
Robust clause final verbal prediction and its maintenance have been argued as a processing variation in SOV languages vis-à-vis SVO languages. Such...