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Illusions of transitive expletives in Middle English
This paper examines a type of existential there sentence found in Middle English that has been argued to have a structure similar to transitive...
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The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton
This work explores the coupling of person-split nominative objects with anomalous subjects (Jahnsson’s Rule (JR), Person-Case Constraint (PCC)). In...
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Ordering discontinuous \(\varvec{\varphi }\)-feature agree: verbal -s in North Eastern English
North Eastern English differs from Standard English with respect to agreement: According to the Northern Subject Rule , 3sg agreement marking ( verbal...
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Universal Dependencies for Mandarin Chinese
This article presents a Universal Dependency (UD) annotation scheme for Mandarin Chinese, as well as the current UD Chinese HK treebank. Our focus is...
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Syntactic conditions on cumulative readings of German jeder ‘every’ DPs
English every -DPs can have cumulative readings relative to plural DPs, but only under severe syntactic constraints. This paper discusses different...
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Syntactic annotation for Portuguese corpora: standards, parsers, and search interfaces
In the last two decades, four Portuguese syntactically annotated corpora were built along the lines initially defined for the Penn Parsed Historical...
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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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Perspectival domains in nouns and clauses
Using data from Nyala East (Luhia, Bantu), I argue that both clauses and nouns are “perspectival domains.” This study primarily focuses on novel...
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Syntax des Französischen
Das Französische hat sich im Laufe seiner Geschichte in vielerlei Hinsicht weiter von seiner lateinischen Grundlage entfernt als etwa das...
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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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Further Implications of French Devoir and Falloir for Theories of Control and Modality
Authier and Reed (2009: 44–45) observe that thematic constraints involving French devoir ‘must’ and falloir ‘to be necessary’ fall out from Chomsky...
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Plural events and the progressive particle in Dalad Chinese, and the final-over-final condition
This paper examines a special progressive marker
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Passive do so
The received view is that the VP pro-form do so cannot be a verbal passive, although it can be unaccusative. I show that this is incorrect: do so can...
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Pronominal typology and the de se/de re distinction
This paper investigates how regular pronominal typology interfaces with de se and de re interpretations, and highlights a correlation between strong...
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Ezafe, PP and the nature of nominalization
In the paper we argue that the English VP/NP structures in (i) a-d have exact counterparts in the i(ranian)Persian PP/NP structures in (ii) a-d,...
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Substantiv, Artikel- undPronomenwörter
Das Substantiv ist die mit Abstand umfangreichste Wortklasse, im Deutschen wie in anderen Sprachen auch. Sein Anteil am Gesamtwortschatz macht...
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One more comparative
Spanish comparatives have two morphemes that can introduce the standard of comparison: the complementizer que (‘that’) and the preposition de ...
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How impersonal does one get?
This paper focuses on overt impersonal pronouns such as English one and Dutch men in eight Germanic languages (English, Frisian, Icelandic, Danish,...
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Prima La Musica, Dopo Le Parole? A Small Note on a Big Topic
Five sets of linguistic data from different languages (Bangla, German, Romanian, Turkish) are discussed all of which present us with morpho-syntactic...
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The Morphosyntactic Encoding of Subjects
This chapter explores the nature of grammatical subjects in Palauan. The conclusion is that DPs that are treated as subjects are licensed by a...