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Confronting Grammatical Ideology with Usage: Toward a Socially Realistic Account of Spoken Portuguese
Adopting a variationist sociolinguistic perspective, this study addresses the uncritical equation of the prescriptive norms of standard Portuguese...
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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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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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Antecedent-contained argument ellipsis in Japanese
This article aims to provide new and solid evidence for the observation made in the previous literature that antecedent containment needs to be...
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Linking Comprehension and Production: Frequency Distribution of Chinese Relative Clauses in the Sinica Treebank
This chapter presents the distribution of Chinese relative clauses in the Sinica Treebank (Chen et al., Sinica corpus: Design methodology for...
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Two cases of doubled pronouns in Amarasi
While the distribution and theoretical import of pronominal clitic doubling has been thoroughly investigated, instances of full doubling with...
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Conjugated Adjectives and Participles in Senhaja Berber (Northwestern Morocco)
In Senhaja Berber (northwestern Morocco), unlike in many other Berber varieties, there is a distinct morphological class of adjectives, with two...
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Subextraction in Japanese and subject-object symmetry
For a long time Japanese was taken to be a language lacking a subject-object asymmetry in subextraction. Two recent experimental studies have...
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Resumption in Igbo: Two types of resumptives, complex phi-mismatches, and dynamic deletion domains
This paper investigates the morphosyntax of resumption in Igbo (Benue-Congo). The first part addresses the syntax and argues that Igbo has two types...
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Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem
This article investigates the structural and interpretative properties of relative clauses in Shupamem, an under-studied Grassfields Bantu language...
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Parametrizing Ergativity: Insights from Western Indo-Aryan Languages
This chapter addresses the issue of language variation by showing that synchronic dialectal variations in closely related languages may have their...
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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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Type-shifting in headless relative clauses
Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which...
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Unattainable duties
Despite its somewhat marginal occurrence, unattainability has been acknowledged as a genuine problematic element for the semantic analysis of modal...
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Switch reference as index agreement
The grammatical notion of switch reference refers to morphological markers that track whether the subjects of two related clauses are coreferent...
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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 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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On Jacobson’s “Towards a Variable-Free Semantics”
Jacobson (Linguist Philos 22(2):117–184, 1999) proposes an account of anaphora that eschews variables and variable assignments, instead treating...
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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...
