Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "agreement"
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Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges | Reply to peer commentaries
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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, ... -
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 ... -
The Origin and Content of Expletives: Evidence from “Selection”
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there-insertion. This paper argues that ...