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Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement
Predicate doubling in Spanish is usually taken to involve multiple copy spell-out. This approach is mainly motivated by the fact that two instances...
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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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Word Order with Transitives and the Interface Hypothesis in L2 Greek and L2 Spanish
This study examines if the syntax-pragmatics interface is more complex to acquire than the syntax-semantics interface, as proposed in the interface...
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On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese
A number of works have assumed the existence of so-called “low focus movement” in Brazilian Portuguese, that is, focus-driven movement to a...
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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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The Functions of Independent Personal Pronouns in Berber
The paper investigates independent personal pronouns in Berber, outlining their typological profile and their syntactic and pragmatic functions....
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Bikol clefts and topics and the Austronesian extraction restriction
Many Austronesian languages exhibit an extraction restriction whereby only one particular DP—the “pivot” argument, the choice of which is reflected...
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The pragmatics and syntax of pronoun preposing
Preposed pronouns have a dual role of both connecting the utterance to the context and serving as its starting point. While central to understanding...
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Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek
This article focuses on Clitic Left Dislocation of XPs in French and Greek. By examining the interpretive properties of these XPs, primarily...
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Extraction asymmetries in topic structures: a comparative analysis
We review two conflicting accounts of the argument-adjunct (a)symmetry found in topic structures in English and in the Romance languages. Based on...
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Against verb-stranding VP-ellipsis in Japanese: reply to Funakoshi (2016)
Japanese has a deletion operation, called argument ellipsis, that targets arguments (Oku in A theory of selection and reconstruction in the...
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On “sluicing” with apparent massive pied-pi**
This paper provides the first detailed description of a type of elliptical wh -question first noted in a footnote in Ross’s seminal paper on sluicing....
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The Conceptualization Theory
In the traditional era, the issue of meaning was tackled by the Reference Theory. According to this theory, meaning is regarded as objective in...
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Asymmetries in doubling and Cyclic Linearization
This paper investigates asymmetries in doubling among verbs, objects and subjects in Cantonese. It is shown that each of these elements has a...
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Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)
Cases of apparent V3 order in German finite main clauses are commonly attributed to remnant VP movement to SpecC. The remnant VPs posited in this...
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Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor
This paper presents a novel account for the optionality of negative concord observed with neither...nor coordinations, in an otherwise strict...
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Dutch preposition stranding and ellipsis: ‘Merchant’s Wrinkle’ ironed out
This paper provides an explanation for the unexpected ban on preposition stranding by wh -R-pronouns under sluicing in Dutch. After showing that...
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How theoretical is your (historical) syntax? Towards a typology of Verb-Third in Early Old High German
Verb-Third (V3) constructions, i.e. root clauses displaying more than one element in their prefield, have been attested throughout the history of...
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First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling
We investigate the syntax of the hitherto understudied phenomenon of first conjunct clitic doubling, with reference to Modern Greek. We argue that it...
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Dutch specCP-expletives are main clause complementizers
This paper focuses on so-called specCP-expletives in Belgian Dutch dialects, a type of expletive that only occurs in clause-initial position. The...
