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Root participles: directive, commissive, expressive and representative participles in Germanic root configurations
The present paper investigates participial root configurations, i.e. participial clauses that are grammatically independent of a host clause. Unlike...
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The morphosyntax of Gothic preverb compounds: incorporation and applicativisation
Gothic preverb compounds illustrate several interesting characteristics, including multiple preverb stacking, idiomatisation, tmesis...
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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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Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi
This paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000...
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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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Root suppletion in Swedish as contextual allomorphy
The present article provides a case study of the forms corresponding to the meaning ‘small’ in Swedish, which exhibit a number-based suppletive...
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The acquisition of grammatical alternates: a comparison of Italian and Norwegian possessives
Possessive alternates (prenominal and postnominal) have mirrored properties in Italian and Norwegian when taking into consideration frequency,...
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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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Giving content to expletive es in German
The present paper proposes an alternative analysis of so-called expletive es in German. It is argued that es has semantic content that serves to...
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Definiteness marking in American Norwegian: a unique pattern among the Scandinavian languages
This paper examines definiteness marking in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage variety of Norwegian spoken in the US. The description adds another...
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The syntax of individuating and measuring pseudo-partitives in Alasha Mongolian
Pseudo-partitive constructions give rise to multiple interpretive ambiguities including a container interpretation (i.e. individuating) and 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 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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A pseudo-sluicing analysis of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian
This paper provides a detailed description of reduced embedded questions in Chakhar Mongolian and proposes to analyze them in terms of so-called...
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Phonetic correlates to Khalkha Mongolian vowel contrasts: duration, formants and voice quality
The paper reports the results of an analysis of acoustic correlates to phonological contrasts in vowel length, quality and pharyngeal width with data...
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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...
