German discourse particles are known to appear in clause-medial position and to resist
displacement to the left or to the right. Nevertheless, there seems to be an exception …

This paper provides cross-linguistic support for a bipartite analysis of 'only'(Bayer in
Directionality and logical form: on the scope of focusing particles and Wh-in-situ, Springer …

Anti-pied-piping is a widespread but understudied phenomenon where a language targets a
proper subpart of the logical focus for focus morphosyntax: for example, focus particle …

In this chapter, it will be shown that in the grammar of German, discourse as well as focus
particles are part of the functional structure of the clause, and that in the unmarked case both …

This article presents novel evidence for cyclic wh-movement. Two experiments show that the
question-sensitive particle denn in German is more readily accepted when occurring in an …

Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: a new argument from ellipsis Page 1 Proceedings
of SALT 32: 814–830, 2022 Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: a new argument from …

In this chapter, I want to extend my earlier work on discourse particles as functional heads by
providing new evidence from particle doubling. I will argue that the German data on …

Although negation is a linguistic universal (Dahl 1979; Horn 2001: xiii), the ways in which it
is expressed are highly variable within and across languages (Miestamo 2005; de Swart …

This article compares two alternatives to the standard movement-and-deletion approach to
clausal ellipsis, which postulates deletion of TP after the remnants of ellipsis are (sometimes …

This article is concerned with the distribution of contracted auxiliaries in English, in particular
the restriction against their occurrence in the immediate context of a gap created by …