Browsing by FAS Department "Linguistics"
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A Unified Analysis of Reflexives and Reciprocals in Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar
(2019-05-17)Reflexives and reciprocals share a similar syntactic distribution so are often grouped together under the term anaphor, even though they differ semantically. They are a challenging test case for any theory due to their ... -
Acute vs. Circumflex: Some Notes on PIE and Post-PIE Prosodic Phonology
(Universitaet Innsbruck, Institut fuer Sprachen und Literaturen, 2003) -
Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives
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Agreement and Clitic Restrictions in Basque
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2008) -
An Experimental Pragmatic Investigation of Depictive Co-Speech Gestures
(2019-09-10)This dissertation examines the pragmatics and semantics of co-speech gesture, gesture produced simultaneously with speech. Using experimental techniques, several patterns are found. First, interlocutors would prefer gestures ... -
Anaphor Binding: What French Inanimate Anaphors Show
(MIT Press - Journals, 2016)Owing to different ideas about what counts as an anaphor subject to Condition A, two influential but superficially incompatible versions of Condition A of binding theory have coexisted: Chomsky’s (1986) version, and versions ... -
Antilogophoricity in Clitic Clusters
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Antipassive
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This chapter presents typical properties of the antipassive, addresses its cross-linguistic distribution, and discusses main existing analyses. ''Antipassives" are constructions in which the logical object of a transitive ... -
Any Questions? Polarity as a Window into the Structure of Questions
(2013-09-30)This dissertation investigates the peculiar behavior of negative polarity items in questions and argues that a unified account of their distribution across declarative and interrogative constructions is feasible. These ... -
Aspects of the Internal History of the PIE Verbal System
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Attenuated Spreading in Sanskrit Retroflex Harmony
(MIT Press - Journals, 2017)Drawing on a two-million-word corpus of Sanskrit, two previously unrecognized generalizations are documented and analyzed concerning the morpho-prosodic conditioning of retroflex spreading (nati). Both reveal harmony to ... -
Backward Raising
(Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing), 2012)This paper documents and analyzes an instance of covert A-movement, specifically covert subject-to-subject raising, in the Northwest Caucasian language Adyghe. We argue that Adyghe has a subject-to-subject raising ... -
The Baltic Future
(Dept of Linguistics, Harvard University, 1975) -
Balto-Slavic Accentuation: Telling News From Noise
(Vilnaus Universitetas, 2004) -
Balto-Slavic Mobility as an Indo-European Problem
(Peter Lang, 2011)The Fifth International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology took place in 2009 at the Silesian University in Opava (Czech Republic). This volume contains papers presented at the workshop. The papers treat thematically ... -
Between syntax and discourse
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016)This article examines the knowledge of topic and subject particles in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Japanese and Korean. We assume that topic marking is mediated at the syntaxinformation structure interface, while ... -
*-bhi, *-bhis, *-o¯is: Following the Trail of the PIE Instrumental Plural
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The biabsolutive construction in Lak and Tsez
(Elsevier BV, 2014)In ergative constructions, the agent of a transitive verb is in the ergative case and the theme is in the absolutive case. By contrast, in biabsolutive constructions, both the agent and theme of a transitive verb appear ...