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Complex Dependencies: Nominative Objects
In the previous chapter l developed a theory of A-dependencies based on a strict version of locality: only the complement and the spec of the...
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Kee** Contact in the Family: Approaches to Language Classification and Contact-induced Change
One of the cornerstones of nineteenth-century historical-comparative linguistics is the regularity hypothesis (see Morpurgo Davies, 1998). This idea...
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The Circle That Won’t Come Full: Two Potential Isoglosses in the Circum-Baltic Area
Although humans have inhabited the region around the Baltic Sea at least since the end of the last glacial era, our knowledge about the languages...
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All or Nothing
We are currently experiencing a boom in all kinds of areally-minded linguistic studies. It will suffice to mention the international project EUROTYP...
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How to turn German into Icelandic – and derive the OV–VO contrasts
Icelandic and German differ in the head-complement order (VO vs. OV), but their morpho-syntactic systems of verbal and nominal inflection are similar...
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Optimal Binding
According to Chomsky's BindingTheory (cf. Chomsky 1981), the distribution ofanaphors, pronouns, and R-expressions is regulatedby three principles:...
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Subject And Non-subject Relativization in Indonesian
It has been claimed widely that in Indonesian the most frequent type of relative clause, that formed with the complementizer yang and with a gap in...
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Realizing Germanic Inflection: Why Morphology Does Not Drive Syntax
This paper examines and evaluates what may be called the “Rich Agreement Hypothesis” (RAH) in the domain of verb movement asymmetries in Germanic....
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Functional Categories in Imperative Clause Structure
The present chapter investigates the clause structure of English imperatives, aiming to determine which functional categories may be represented and...
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Other Germanic Languages
All Germanic languages have words that correspond to the Swedish verbal particles, and it is well-known that particles display cross-linguistic...
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Oblique Case and Subjecthood or: Why Icelandic Is Different
In chapter 3, I outlined a theoretical approach to the traditional observation that there is a correlation between the presence of a morphological...
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Theoretical Approaches to Infinitives and Null Subjects
The following approaches to child infinitives and child null subjects have been widely discussed and make the most interesting predictions. First,...
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On Expletives
An important aspect of the analysis of‘XP-subject’ orders in the Germanic languages in chapter 4 was the assumption that in some languages subjects...
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Empirical Data and The Evaluation of Approaches
In this chapter the two most influential approaches to root infinitives and null subjects, namely the truncation and the missing tense hypothesis,...