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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...
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Aspectual phase heads in Muskogee verbs
Current phasal models of words differ from one another in two main ways: which heads are phasal and whether a phase head allows higher heads to...
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The role of heads and cyclicity in bracketing paradoxes in Armenian compounds
It is often argued that words have complex internal structure in terms of their morphology, phonology, and semantics. On the surface, Armenian...
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Slee** Beauty: Awakenings, Chance, Secrets, and Video
A new philosophical analysis is provided of the notorious Slee** Beauty Problem. It is argued that the correct solution is one-third, but not in...
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Introduction: Hip Hop’s Here, There… and Everywhere—An Introduction to Global Hiphopography
For the last decades scholarship on Hip Hop has sought to develop a coherent statement on its own writing practices: Why, how, where and with whom...
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A Trilingual K-12 Program in Siem Reap: Reflecting on Successes and Failures
Siem Reap, with its proximity to the UNESCO Heritage site of Angkor Wat, relies heavily on travel and tourism. In this environment, multilingualism...
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A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu
Based on a first-time acoustic analysis of the checked-tone sandhi patterns in Suzhou (Northern Wu), I argue that the tone sandhi pattern of...
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Two types of plurals and numeral classifiers in classifier languages: the case of Korean
This paper explores two types of plurals and their co-occurrence relationships with numeral classifiers in Korean. It proposes a split-head plural...
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Amahuaca ergative as agreement with multiple heads
The mechanisms underlying ergative case assignment have long been debated, with inherent and dependent theories of ergative case emerging as two of...
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One Feature—One Head: Features as Functional Heads in Language Acquisition and Attrition
This chapter explores the ramifications of envisaging an architecture of syntaxSyntax in which each functional projection (head) consists of only one...
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Global Hiphopography
This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of...
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The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok
Like other syntactic elements, affixes are sometimes said to be heads or modifiers. In Russian, one suffix, -onok , can be either: as a head, it is a...
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Natural Grammar
The theory of natural grammar views grammars as language specific semiotic systems that naturally symbolize semantics by structural assembly. The...
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A bipartite analysis of
zhiyou ‘only’ in Mandarin ChineseThis paper provides cross-linguistic support for a bipartite analysis of ‘only’ (Bayer in Directionality and logical form: on the scope of focusing...
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Adverbial -s as last resort
This article examines the grammatical behavior of Dutch adverbs featuring so-called adverbial - s . This will be done on the basis of three questions:...
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Variations on what for in the history of English
Constructions that question kinds have been discussed widely in Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic, but English and earlier stages of English have mostly...
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Person agreement with inherent case DPs in Chirag Dargwa
The article argues that the syntactic behavior of non-absolutive subjects of finite clauses in the Nakh-Daghestanian language Chirag Dargwa is a...
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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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Implicit arguments in English double object constructions
Pesetsky (
1995 ) argued that both objects in the double object construction must be selected arguments of the lexical verb, based on patterns of...
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Introduction
This book investigates infinitival and gerundial complements of selected adjectival heads in recent English, with essential use made of multivariate...