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Switch reference as index agreement
The grammatical notion of switch reference refers to morphological markers that track whether the subjects of two related clauses are coreferent...
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ECM subjects in Japanese
The present paper argues that ECM subjects undergo A-movement to Spec of ForceP in the subordinate clause, but not to the matrix object position, in...
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When Philippine-type voice meets Indo-European-type voice: insights from Puyuma
Puyuma, an understudied indigenous language of Taiwan, features the compatibility of Philippine-type and Indo-European-type voice alternations within...
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Force shift: a case study of Cantonese ho2 particle clusters
This paper investigates force shift, a phenomenon in which the canonical discourse conventions, or force, associated with a clause type can be...
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Two steps to high absolutive syntax: Austronesian voice and agent focus in Mandar
The westernmost languages of the Austronesian family show verbal alternations that are traditionally referred to as a voice system. This paper...
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Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation
This paper investigates agreement—in particular person agreement—in two configurations in Icelandic where there are two potential controllers of...
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Ho**: Predicates that Hate Questions
In Chap. 1 , I discussed the challenges ‘picky’ predicates—those predicates that are compatible only with a...
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Transformation Patterns
During the transformation process described in Section 4 and 5, we operate both on the clausal and phrasal level of a sentence by recursively...
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Doubling unconditionals and relative sluicing
Doubling unconditionals are exemplified by the Spanish example Venga quien venga, estaré contento ‘Whoever comes, I’ll be happy’ (lit. ‘Comes who...
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Stimulus encoding in constructions with past passive participles in Russian: construal and diachrony
In Russian, many past passive participles of verbs of emotion, e.g. obižen ( nyj ) ‘offended’, obradovan ( nyj ) ‘gladdened’, obespokoen ( nyj ) ‘worried’,...
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Silent Pauses
Silent pauses may be defined as stretches of silence within the speech stream (Cucchiarini et al., 2002) or an unvoiced delay, a temporary suspension...
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Toward a Unified Linguistic Approach to Conditionals—Some Empirical Evidence
This paper reappraises Greenberg’s Universal of Word Order 14 concerning the linear order of the two clauses in a conditional construction. It also...
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Clausal embedding in Washo: Complementation vs. modification
This paper concerns clausal embedding in Washo (also spelled Washoe, Wáˑšiw), a highly endangered Hokan/isolate language spoken around Lake Tahoe in...
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The Use of the Bare Aorist in Figuig Berber (Eastern Morocco)
This article studies the use of the Bare Aorist in the Berber variety of Figuig, an oasis at the border of Morocco and Algeria. Like eslsewhere in...
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Clause complexing in systemic functional lingustics – towards an alternative description
This article examines Halliday & Matthiessen’s systemic functional description of expanding clause complexing. As a perspective, their description is...
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Descriptive As Ifs
This is the first part of a larger project that aims to develop a cross-categorical semantic account of a broad range of as if constructions in...
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Non-local attachment of clauses
We argue that some parenthetical-like clauses in ASL can take both intermediate and maximally wide scope outside of if- clauses and attitude verbs....
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Locality, focus and covert movement
This paper offers new evidence for covert focus movement in two areas of Chinese syntax, concerning A’-extraction and the distribution of anaphoric...
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Diachronic Distribution of Clause Combining
In Chap. 4 , we studied the genre distribution of different clause combining patterns based on the...
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Existential there versus Demonstrative there
To develop a natural grammar account of existential constructions, it is crucial to describe the formal properties and semantics of existential there...