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The blocking effect in Vietnamese
This article explores a restriction on non-local binding in Vietnamese—the blocking effect—including a systematic comparison with its Mandarin...
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Iceberg Phenomena and Synchronic Rules
While language change may naturally lead to the defunctionalization of older linguistic structures, for instance in the guise of non-functional,...
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Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking
Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking,...
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Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy
Assimilation is a central phenomenon in phonology, yet there is little consensus on either its representation or computation. In particular, the...
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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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Blocking as a Function of the Nature of Linguistic Representations: Where Psycholinguistics and Morphology Meet
This paper addresses the question to what extent morphological blocking in language is a rule-based phenomenon. We argue that language users do not...
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Rivalry and Lack of Blocking Among Italian and German Diminutives in Adult and Child Language
This contribution deals with competition (rivalry) between diminutive suffixations in (Austrian) German and Italian adult language and child speech...
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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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Verb movement and the lack of verb-doubling VP-topicalization in Germanic
In the absence of a stranded auxiliary or modal, VP-topicalization in most Germanic languages gives rise to the presence of a dummy verb meaning...
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Bare singulars and singularity in Turkish
This paper explores the semantics of bare singulars in Turkish, which are unmarked for number in form, as in English, but can behave like both...
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Rethinking the Acceptability and Probability of Indicative Conditionals
The chapter is devoted to the probability and acceptability of indicative conditionals. Focusing on three influential theses, the Equation, Adams’...
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Blocking and paradigm gaps
Gaps in morphological paradigms are often explained in terms of blocking: generating one form is blocked by the existence of a paraphrase. Another...
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Not every pronoun is always a pronoun
A homonymy analysis is proposed to explain the so-called “demonstrative use” of personal pronouns. This analysis explains why some pronouns ( it ) do...
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On Chierchia’s “Reference to Kinds Across Languages”
This chapter introduces the core aspects of the theory of variation proposed in Chierchia (Nat Lang Semant 6(4):339–405, 1998). Focusing primarily on...
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Quantifier Raising out of Mandarin relative clauses
Quantifier Raising usually exhibits finite-clause boundedness due to the syntactic and semantic constraints it is subject to (Fox
1995 ,2000 ,...
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Gibbardian Collapse and Trivalent Conditionals
In conditional logics the law of Import-Export states the equivalence between right-nested sentences of the form “if A, then if B, then C” and their...
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Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction
Recent work has claimed that (non-tonal) phonological patterns are subregular (Heinz
2011a ,b ,2018 ; Heinz and Idsardi2013 ), occupying a delimited...
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A formal account of morphological epenthesis in Serbo-Croatian
This article analyzes stem allomorphy in Serbo-Croatian neuter noun inflection as morphological epenthesis. I demonstrate that consonant insertion in...
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Jamaica to the World
It is the thirteenth session of the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The...
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Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation
This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention....