This paper proposes an analysis of wh-movement in late archaic Chinese as clause-internal
focus fronting to the edge of v P. The paper further shows that archaic Chinese wh-words …

The NP/DP-language Distinction as a Scale and Parameters in Minimalism Hiromune Oda,
Ph.D. University of Connecticut, 2022 The d Page 1 The NP/DP-language Distinction as a …

The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the
morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the …

University of Connecticut Abstract: The paper argues for a Maximize Asymmetric Relations
preference (MAR) as a general property of language based on a number of phenomena that …

This paper discusses the concept of weak head in Chomsky's (2015. Problems of projection:
Extensions. In Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann & Simona Matteini (eds.), Structures …

This article outlines an implementation of Cable's (2010) Grammar of Q that considers the
role played by the periphery of vP, hitherto unexplored in this framework. Empirically, I offer …

This dissertation explores a cross-linguistic trend of a diachronic loss of obligatory syntactic
movement, which includes the loss of phrasal movement, as in the new observation …

Forty-four years after the publication of Chomsky's On wh-movement, many aspects of the
grammar of questions remain a challenge. While the cross-linguistic distribution of total wh …

This paper proposes an analysis of movement to the left periphery in Old Japanese within
the framework of CT Inheritance. Particular attention is given to the fact that nominative …

Syntactic parsing is the process of automatically assigning a structure to a string of words,
and is arguably a necessary prerequisite for obtaining a detailed and precise representation …