This dissertation is concerned with the broad question of why auxiliary verbs occur in natural
language. Much previous work has assumed that the occurrence of auxiliary verbs is …

A limited number of predicates show a suppletive form instead of the so-called short-form
negation construction in Korean (al-'know'→ molu-'not know',* an (i)/mos al-; iss-'exist'→ eps …

This paper demonstrates that there are no empirical and theoretical motivations for
regarding verbal predicate focus constructions as (diachronically) derived from cleft …

Aspects of Language Variation and Change in Contemporary Basque by William F. Haddican A
dissertation submitted in partial fulfi Page 1 Aspects of Language Variation and Change in …

This dissertation studies the component of PF, ie, morphology, phonology and phonetics, in
Korean in a consistently derivational approach. Using phonological arguments and an …

The purpose of this paper is to argue that morphology is an interpretive system, rather than
one which filters ill-formed syntactic derivations. To make the argument, I will discuss two …

This paper develops an account of do-support in VP focus constructions in Central and
Western Basque (CWB) dialects. In particular, this paper argues that CWB dialects, along …

In this thesis I explore the role of ambiguous evidence in first language acquisition by using
a probabilistic learner for setting syntactic parameters. As ambiguous evidence is input to …

Central and Western Basque (CWB) dialects have a verb focalization construction involving
the dummy verb egin, which as a lexical verb is akin to English 'make'or 'do.'(Rebuschi 1984 …

In this article we investigate various focus constructions in Ewe. The contribution of this
paper is two-fold: First, it presents new evidence that focus fronting in Ewe is simply …