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This article argues that inversion of the subject and auxiliary in English matrix questions and
elsewhere is the effect of a violable optimality-theoretic constraint that requires head …

A new approach to grammar and meaning of relational nouns is presented along with its
empirical consequences. In A Syntax of Substance, David Adger proposes a new approach …

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is
fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical …

Locality constraints on displacement as they have been proposed over the last decades
(since Chomsky (1964) and Ross (1967)) have been highly successful from an empirical …

Optative utterances express a wish, regret, hope or desire without an overt lexical item that
means wish, regret, hope or desire (cf. Quirk et al. 1972, 1985; Scholz 1991; Rosengren …

Recent developments in linguistic theory fail to shed a new light on verb movement
parameters. Although the language variation in this area has been well documented …

An interesting asymmetry in syntactic change is that OV base order is commonly replaced by
VO, whereas the reverse development is quite rare in languages. 1 A shift to VO has taken …

Die Reihe publiziert Originalarbeiten zur Beschreibung und theoretischen Analyse der
Struktur natürlicher Sprachen. Schwerpunkt sind die Prinzipien und Regeln der …