Browsing by FAS Department "Linguistics"
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Certain Aspects of Cliticization in Polish
(Penn Graduate Linguistics Society, 1995)The main goal of this paper is to present an account of certain forms of cliticization in Polish. I will try to show that the fact that certain clitics undergo phonological processes typically assumed to be lexical does ... -
Chinese Conditionals and the Theory of Conditionals
(Springer Verlag, 2000)As is well known, in conditionals and, more generally, in structures involving adverbs of quantification, indefinite NPs like a cat display a variable quantificational force. Within DRT this phenomenon is analyzed by ... -
Class III Presents in Tocharian
(Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University, 1975) -
Clause structure and adjuncts in Austronesian languages (Review)
(Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) -
Cleaving the Interactions Between Sluicing and Preposition Stranding
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2009)Merchant (2001) proposes that preposition stranding under sluicing is allowed only in those languages that also allow P-stranding in regular wh- questions. Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) seem to falsify this ... -
The clitic binding restriction revisited: Evidence for antilogophoricity
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015)In some Romance languages, including French and Spanish, there is an interesting asymmetry concerning the behavior of isolated clitics and clitic clusters with respect to coreference. In the French example Anne croit qu’on ... -
Clitic positions within the Left Periphery: evidence for a phonological buffer
(John Benjamins, 2005)In this paper I will argue that Polish auxiliary clitics provide additional evidence for adopting Rizzi’s (1997) expanded structure of the Left Periphery (LP) by arguing that auxiliary clitics are a phonological manifestation ... -
Closest Conjunct Agreement in Head-Final Languages
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Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry: An eye-tracking study of prenominal relative clauses in Korean
(Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)Object relatives (ORs) have been reported to cause heavier processing loads than subject relatives (SRs) in both pre- and postnominal position (prenominal relatives: Miyamoto & Nakamura 2003, Kwon 2008, Ueno & Garnsey 2008; ... -
Consonant Harmony in Karaim
(Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004) -
Control and raising passives, and why Mandarin does not smuggle
(Springer Nature, 2016)Collins (Syntax 8:81–120, 2005) proposes a smuggling approach to English passives that solves some problems associated with the traditional analysis. This article will show that while English passives involve smuggling, ... -
Counterfactuality without Past Tense
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Cross-Modular Parallels in the Study of Phon and Phi
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Deficient Heads and Long Head Movement in Slovak
(Michigan Slavic Publications, 1997)This paper examines verbal clitics in Polish and Slovak -
Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges | Reply to peer commentaries
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Degree Phrase Raising in Relative Clauses
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013)The paper proposes that degree/amount relative clauses are derived via overt Degree Phrase raising out of the CP. I show that there exist two distinct types of degree relative clauses whose properties can be deduced from ... -
Derivations without the Activity Condition
(Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The EPP cannot be reduced to the Inverse Case Filter (contra Boskovic 2002) and remains for the moment axiomatic in phrase-marker construction. Feature-splitting, Agree, and the EPP allow for a range of derivational options ... -
Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry
(2013-02-12)The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic ... -
Diagnosing Covert A-Movement
(Oxford University Press, 2011)Covert movement is movement that is not phonologically visible in the syntactic derivation. While covert A'-movement is widely proposed, covert A-movement is quite uncommon and difficult to identify. This chapter discusses ... -
Did Hittite Have Si-imperatives?
(2012-04-30)