Closest conjunct agreement is of great theoretical interest in terms of what it reveals about
the structure of coordination; the locality of agreement relations; and the interaction between …

An investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-
Polynesian) as the empirical starting point. In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates …

Recent research on the syntax of Arabic has produced valuable literature on the major
syntactic phenomena found in the language. This guide to Arabic syntax provides an …

This paper capitalizes on the difference between person complementarity (eg PCC effects)
and omnivorous number (eg the fact that a single plural marker can be used to cross …

This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

Syncretism--where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions--is a
persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a'mismatch'whereby …

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 …

The goal of this book is to explore the diachronic development of subject-verb agreement,
focusing on the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as inflectional formatives. It is shown that …

This article analyzes mismatches between syntactic and prosodic constituency in Irish and
attempts to understand those mismatches in terms of recent proposals about the nature of …

Cyclic displacement shows how search-space can expand" downward", into the c-command
domain of a probe, by displacement of an intervener. This section demonstrates that search …