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On silent elements: a case study of grand and its silent entourage
Recent work in syntax has seen a proliferation of silent elements (SEs), e.g., van Riemsdijk (
2002 ,2005 ) and Kayne (e.g., Kayne2005 ,2006 ,2012 )....
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P-stranding under sluicing and repair by ellipsis: why is Indonesian (not) special?
This paper presents novel evidence that P-stranding in Indonesian contradicts Merchant’s (The syntax of silence: sluicing, islands, and the theory of...
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Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations: afto-prefixation in Greek
This paper investigates in detail the properties of a particular morphological reflexivization strategy in Greek, named afto -prefixation. The basic...
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Being progressive is just a phase: celebrating the uniqueness of progressive aspect under a phase-based analysis
The identity of phasal boundaries has mostly been considered in light of minimal CP-TP-vP-VP structures. The question this paper addresses is where...
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Corrective but coordinates clauses not always but sometimes
The semantic contrast between counterexpectational and corrective but has long interested linguists (see Anscombre and Ducrot
1977 and much...
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Hidden nominal structures in Japanese clausal comparatives
Recent studies of Japanese clausal comparatives have yielded several competing theoretical views of their syntax and semantics that have different...
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The morpho-syntax of silent wh-expressions in Wolof
This paper analyzes the morphology and syntax of wh-expressions and agreeing complementizers in Wolof, an Atlantic language. I argue that Wolof...
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Implicit complements: a dilemma for model theoretic semantics
I show that words with indefinite implicit complements occasion a dilemma for their model theory. There has been only two previous attempts to...
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Wh-fronting and the left periphery in Mandarin
This article explores the semantic and syntactic properties of wh -fronting constructions as well as the fine structure of the left periphery in...
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Island repair effects of the Left Branch Condition in Mandarin Chinese
This study employs the island repair effect on the Left Branch Condition (LBC) to illuminate the derivation of Mandarin sluicing. It utilizes three...
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Focus and uninformativity in Yucatec Maya questions
Crosslinguistically, questions frequently make crucial use of morphosyntactic elements which also occur outside of questions. Chief among these are...
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No more shall we part: Quantifiers in English comparatives
It is well known that the interpretation of quantificational expressions in the comparative clause poses a serious challenge for semantic analyses of...
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VP ellipsis, phases and the syntax of morphology
The main goal of this paper is to propose a derivational account of the salient syntactic properties of VP ellipsis constructions, both in languages...
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Deletion versus pro-forms: an overly simple dichotomy?
This paper examines an anaphoric construction, British English do , and locates it within the dichotomy in the ellipsis literature between deleted...
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Ellipsis in split questions
Split questions such as What tree did John plant, an oak? contain a wh -question part and a tag. Drawing on Spanish, Basque and English data, this...
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Prädikative, freie Dative und Ellipsen
Ausdrücke, die von einem Kopulaverb selegiert werden, wurden in Kapitel I.2.5 als ›Prädikative‹ bezeichnet. Bei diesen Ausdrücken kann es sich um...
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Reduced and unreduced phrasal comparatives
Degree heads combine with individual ( John is taller than [ Mary ]) as well as clausal arguments ( John is taller than [ Mary is ]). Does the degree head...
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Spelling out the Double-o Constraint
This article aims to elucidate the true nature of the so-called Double-o Constraint (DoC) in Japanese. The nature of the DoC has long been discussed...
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An annotated corpus for the analysis of VP ellipsis
Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE) has been studied in great depth in theoretical linguistics, but empirical studies of VPE are rare. We extend the few...
