Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling grammatical
knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as huh, eh, yup or yessssss …

This dissertation develops a theory of contrastive topics (CTs)—what they mean, and how
they are realized. I give a compositional semantics for CT constructions, built on the idea that …

Abstract Landau (2000) distinguishes between P (artial) C (ontrol) and E (xhaustive) C
(ontrol): PC predicates like hope admit a subset relation between controller and controllee …

Mandarin Chinese clausal syntax can be described as strictly head-initial, with the exception
of certain “particles” which are linearized at the end of the clause. Previous work on these …

This thesis is a cross-linguistic investigation into the nature of null arguments in radical pro-
drop languages where null arguments are claimed to be derivable via the process called …

The present article presents an in-depth analysis of the head-final three-layered split CP
realized by sentence-final particles (SFPs) in the SVO language Mandarin Chinese. These …

In a recent paper, Biberauer et al.(2014b) claim that the Chinese sentence-final particles
(SFPs) ne and ma only “double” the information encoded elsewhere in the sentence and are …

Following the results of a diverse typological study, I argue that “dependent” tag questions
(henceforth “DTQs”, defined below) are not unique to English, but can in fact be found in …

There has been a great deal of work examining the structures of yes/no and wh-
constructions that has led to many important developments in linguistic theory. In this …

Work by Sudo (2013) and Gyuris (2017) has shown that the bias of polar interrogatives
varies both cross-linguistically as well as-in languages that possess more than one …