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VP Ellipsis and Topicalization
(BookSurge Publishing, 2004)
This paper supports the model where VP ellipsis is licensed via de-stressing which in turn is licensed via Focus closure (Rooth 1992). However, it is also argued that we have to assume that ellipsis is preceded by the ...
Malagasy Control and Its Theoretical Implications
(Berkeley Linguistic Society, 2004)
Few syntactic phenomena have attracted as much attention as Control: a structure in which the overt subject of a dominating clause (the controller) determines the referential properties of an unpronounced subject of its ...
Shifty Operators in Changing Contexts
(CLC Publications, 2004)
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, ...
Balto-Slavic Accentuation: Telling News From Noise
(Vilnaus Universitetas, 2004)
Plus ça change. . .: Lachmann's Law in Latin
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
Linearization of Nested and Overlapping Precedence in Multiple Reduplication
(Dept. of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2004)
Consonant Harmony in Karaim
(Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Phonological Ambiguity: What UG Can and Can't do to Help the Reduplication Learner
(Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
On the Syntactic Expression of Pejorative Mood
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2004)
The hypothesis of the copy theory of movement forces us to look at mismatches between syntax and LF on the one hand, and syntax and PF on the other in particular ways, often revealing new insights. Through such a lens, we ...