This article develops a new approach to a family of hierarchy-effect-inducing configurations,
with a focus on Person Case Constraint effects, dative-nominative configurations, and …

The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two
objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of Agree and of …

The distribution of a special agreement pattern known as the “inverse” varies across the
Algonquian languages. This article shows that, under an interaction-and-satisfaction model …

Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a
nominal depends on the presence of another nominal in the same domain. Recent work on …

This dissertation develops a formal and psycholinguistic theory of person-based prominence
effects, the finding that certain categories of person such as" first" and" second"(the" local" …

In this paper, we discuss the implications of the phenomenon of first conjunct clitic doubling
(FC CLD), based on data from Modern Greek. We first recap the arguments in Paparounas & …

We are used to thinking about person, number, and gender as features to which the
grammar is sensitive. But the place of animacy is less familiar, despite its robust syntactic …

Languages with applicative morphology vary in whether their applied arguments can stack,
or “recurse.” Focusing primarily on Bantu languages, I argue that the availability of …

This dissertation examines a few dimensions of morphosyntactic complexity in Georgian.
Central are the language's split-ergative case system, whereby clausal arguments are …

Pronominal paradigms in Philippine-type Austronesian languages show a robust and
curious gap: in transitive clauses, pivot arguments and nonpivot agents may have bound …