This thesis is a theoretical investigation of various dimensions of symmetry exhibited in
human language. I discuss two kinds of symmetry: AGREEMENT SYMMETRY and …

Across the languages of the world, we repeatedly find that the extraction of the subject of an
embed ded clause correlates with a reduction in the size of that clause. This generalization …

This thesis explores transparent and opaque interactions of operations in Minimalist syntax
in order to gain insights into the nature of elementary operations and their mode of …

In this article, I analyze patterns of reflexes of Ā-movement found within and across
languages: reflexes may occur in all or none of the clauses of the dependency, in the clause …

Certain aspects of human knowledge of language (= UG) may well follow from more general
laws of, eg (biological) computation, or physical law (Chomsky, 1965, Chomsky, 2005) …

This dissertation explores the cross-linguistic nature of resumptive Ā-dependencies with a
particular emphasis on resumption in spoken Arabic varieties. Two primary questions …

This dissertation develops two main ideas:(i) the range of possible human languages may
be partially limited by the possible combinations of functional features, and (ii) Universal …

Goals:• present new data on a SU/non-SU extraction asymmetry in Igbo• provide evidence
that the morphological asymmetry in focus marking corresponds to a syntactic asymmetry …

The topic of this paper is the ki/ma alternation in Cape Verdean Creole (henceforth, CVC)
with a focus on the behavior of ki within wh-questions. We argue that ki is a morphosyntactic …

A parameter-free underspecification approach to complementizer agreement* Page 1 A
parameter-free underspecification approach to complementizer agreement* Acrisio Pires,1 Yushi …