An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order
constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a …

The empirical focus of this paper is what looks like a verb third (V3) pattern in West Flemish
(WF) in which an adverbial modifier (typically a temporal or conditional adjunct) is followed …

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 …

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old
Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the …

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 …

This paper presents a novel account for the optionality of negative concord observed with
neither... nor coordinations, in an otherwise strict negative concord language—Turkish. I …

Recent work has cast doubt on the idea that all languages are equally complex; however,
the notion of syntactic complexity remains underexplored. Taking complexity to equate to …

This paper discusses how the transcription hurdle in dialect corpus building can be cleared.
While corpus analysis has strongly gained in popularity in linguistic research, dialect …

This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch
(StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally …