Browsing by FAS Department "Linguistics"
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The differential representation of number and gender in Spanish
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015)This paper investigates the geometry of phi-features with a special emphasis on number and gender in Spanish. We address (i) whether number and gender evidence single- or multi-valued systems for their respective features, ... -
A Distributed Morphology Analysis of Present Tense Auxiliaries in Zamudio
(Mendebalde Kultur Alkartea, 2006)We provide an analysis of the morphology of present indicative auxiliary verbs in Zamudio Basque. In doing so we present an illustration of the theory of Distributed Morphology and the post-syntactic rules that obscure a ... -
Does Headedness Affect Processing? A New Look at the VO–OV Contrast
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)This paper examines the relationship between headedness and language processing and considers two strategies that potentially ease language comprehension and production. Both strategies allow a language to minimize the ... -
Echo Reduplication: When Too-Local Movement Requires PF-Distinctness
(Linguistics Dept., University of Maryland, 2004)This paper provides supporting evidence for a number of hypotheses made in recent models of derivational syntax. The phenomenon under study is shm-reduplication in English, a particular instance of the more general, ... -
Effects of linguistic context on the acceptability of co-speech gestures
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2018)We ask whether iconic co-speech gestures are judged as more natural by naive participants when their content is entailed by a preceding context, or repeated in the same utterance, or when they contribute new information ... -
The Ending of the PIE 2 sg. Middle Imperative
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English Reflexive Logophors
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Ergative Case and the Transitive Subject: A View from Nez Perce
(Springer Verlag, 2010)Ergative case, the special case of transitive subjects, raises questions not only for the theory of case but also for theories of subjecthood and transitivity. This paper analyzes the case system of Nez Perce, a ”three-way ... -
Events in Space
(2009)Many languages make use of verbal forms to express spatial relations and distinctions. Spatial notions are lexicalized into verb roots, as in come and go; they are expressed by derivational-morphology such as Inese˜no ... -
Evidence and Argumentation: A Reply to Everett
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Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising
(Blackwell Publishing, 2006)This paper presents unusual patterns in raising and control and offers a syntactic account which would validate such patterns. On the empirical side, we present evidence for backward control (data from several languages), ... -
Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages
(2014-06-06)This thesis investigates "voice mismatch verbs" (deponents), verbs that take non-active morphology but are used in syntactically active environments. The focus is on the non-informant Indo-European languages Hittite, Vedic ... -
Features In Categorization
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Formal Semantics and the Grammar of Predication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1985) -
From Reduplication to Ablaut: The Class VII Strong Verbs of Northwest Germanic
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Gathic Avestan ciko¯itərəš
(Rodopi, 1997) -
Gender Under Incomplete Acquisition: Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Noun Categorization
(Language Resource Center of UCLA, UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching, 2008)