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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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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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Floating quantifiers, specificity and focus in Lalo Yi
Lalo Yi presents a distribution of numeral-classifier pairs that appears to be the complete inverse of the norm found in other numeral-classifier...
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Language revitalization through a social movement lens: grassroots Galician language activism
In this article, a social movement lens is applied to examine the dynamics of an urbanbased language revitalization movement in the Autonomous...
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Focus without pitch boost: focus sensitivity in Japanese why-questions and its theoretical implications
Unlike typical wh-questions, why -questions are known to be focus-sensitive, but the linguistic realization of their focus sensitivity shows an...
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Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof
This paper investigates control constructions in the Niger-Congo language Wolof, which offers several insights into the phenomenon of control. First,...
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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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Predicting Chinese reading proficiency based on eye movement features and machine learning
This study explores the effectiveness of machine learning and eye movement features in predicting Chinese reading proficiency. Unlike previous...
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Movement and cyclic Agree
Recent work has argued for derivational expansion of the search space of ɸ-probes as a result of the cyclic interaction of Merge and Agree (cyclic...
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Reflexes of exponent movement in inflectional morphology
Seemingly non-local phonological operations triggered by inflectional exponents have been observed in a number of languages. Focussing on...
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Rightward verb movement: A reappraisal
A well-known problem for head-final languages is diagnosing rightward head movement. For Germanic OV-languages such as German and Dutch, it has been...
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Eye-movement patterns in skilled Arabic readers: effects of specific features of Arabic versus universal factors
This study aims to shed light on the contribution of universal versus language specific factors on reading. We examined eye movements of Arabic...
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Is it the size, the movement, or both? Investigating effects of screen size and text movement on processing, understanding, and motivation when students read informational text
This study focused on the potential effects of screen size (smartphone vs. tablet) and text movement (scrolling vs. paging) on integrated...
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A longitudinal eye-movement study of text-diagram integrative processing during multimedia reading among upper elementary children
This study aimed to investigate whether elementary school students have different reading strategies based on various levels of text-diagram...
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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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The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles
Among the scalar usages of only , there is one that has a temporal dimension. In Carla understood the problem only on Sunday , for instance, Sunday is...
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Linguistic Manifestations in a Multilingual World: Focus on English
In this chapter, readers learn about different manifestations of language which have emerged as the result of multilingualism and language contact....
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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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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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Moving heads to specifiers: Evidence from Mandarin multiple pre-subject modals
Based on a hitherto neglected set of multiple pre-subject modal sentences, this article offers a novel syntactic account of Mandarin modals whereby...
