The nanosyntax of case

P Caha - 2009 - munin.uit.no
This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, morphology and
semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently …

The nanosyntax of Nguni noun class prefixes and concords

KT Taraldsen - Lingua, 2010 - Elsevier
This article shows that once it is accepted that a single morpheme can lexicalize a “span” of
heads rather than a single head, it becomes possible to establish the complex structures …

[PDF][PDF] A unified syntax of negation

K De Clercq - 2013 - biblio.ugent.be
This dissertation develops a unified syntax for negation. More particularly, it proposes a
unified account for the differences and similarities between 'sentence negation', as in …

The German locative-directional alternation: A peeling account

P Caha - The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2010 - Springer
I investigate the locative-directional alternation in German, expressed by the change of case
on the complement of a preposition, and its consequences for the theory of case in general. I …

[PDF][PDF] Splitting objects: A nanosyntactic account of direct object marking

A Rocquet - 2013 - biblio.ugent.be
This dissertation provides a novel perspective on direct object marking. The theory is
developed in the Nanosyntactic framework on the basis of Hungarian data. It is then …

Person restrictions in Basque intransitives

M Rezac - Lapurdum. Euskal ikerketen aldizkaria| Revue d …, 2009 - journals.openedition.org
I discuss the extension of the Person Case Constraint analysis of 1/2: nor-nori-nork gaps (*
eraman naiozu) to 1/2: nor-nori gaps (hurbiltzen/* gustatzen natzaio). According to it, all and …

[PDF][PDF] The syntax of reduced nominals in Akkadian

MJ Henry - 2013 - eprints.soas.ac.uk
This thesis investigates within a generative framework a cluster of morphological and
syntactic facts in the Old Babylonian variety of Akkadian, whose common property, despite …

[PDF][PDF] Splitting objects

A Rocquet - A nanosyntactic account of direct object marking …, 2013 - researchgate.net
This dissertation provides a novel perspective on direct object marking. The theory is
developed in the Nanosyntactic framework on the basis of Hungarian data. It is then …

A case study of the P demotion operation

K Janic - Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and …, 2020 - cejsh.icm.edu.pl
P demotion is an umbrella term which refers to an operation performed on verbal valency.
This mechanism results in a range of different constructions sharing two characteristics: the …

Syntactic restrictions on infinitival imperatives in Czech

I Kučerová - Slovo a slovesnost, 2009 - ceeol.com
This paper discusses syntactic restrictions on infinitival imperatives in Czech. I argue that for
an infinitival imperative to be well-formed, there must be syntactic material asymmetrically c …