We argue that head movement, as an operation that builds head-adjunction structures in the
syntax, has been used to model two empirically distinct classes of phenomena. One class …

In a head-final language, V-raising is hard to detect since there is no evidence from the
string to support a raising analysis. If the language has a cliticlike negation that associates …

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 …

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies,
based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change …

This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation.
Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope …

A limited number of predicates show a suppletive form instead of the so-called short-form
negation construction in Korean (al-'know'→ molu-'not know',* an (i)/mos al-; iss-'exist'→ eps …

This dissertation is concerned with how elliptical sentences are generated. To be specific, I
investigate when and in what module ellipsis occurs, and what is elided as a result of …

This paper investigates the underlying structures of the two ditransitive constructions in
Korean, the postpositional dative construction (realized as [Dative–Accusative]) and the …

Children around age 2 acquiring Korean as a first language are well known for producing an
error in which VP-internal material intervenes between the negator an and the verb, an order …

The main goal of this thesis is to investigate syntactic and semantic properties of the
constructions in Korean that express a causal relation between two predicates. The research …