What do you know, if you know that a language has' Object Verb'structure rather than'Verb
Object'? Answering this question and many others, this book provides an essential guide to …

Across the languages of the world, we repeatedly find that the extraction of the subject of an
embed ded clause correlates with a reduction in the size of that clause. This generalization …

Korean subject honorification and Korean negation have both affixal and suppletive
exponents. In addition, Korean negation has a periphrastic realization involving an auxiliary …

This article provides an overview of the analysis of null arguments in Japanese in terms of
ellipsis. It addresses some of the examples that pose problems for the pronoun theory. The …

Various languages allow instances of external possession—possessive encoding without a
possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of …

This dissertation investigates the structure and interpretation of noun phrases in Thai and
other classifier languages, focusing particular attention on whether Thai contains the same …

We defend the idea that a floating quantifier observes syntactic locality with its associated
noun phrase. This idea has given rise to a number of important empirical insights, including …

The goal of this thesis is to account for distributional patterns of given and new items in
Czech, especially their word order. The system proposed here has four basic components:(i) …

This book investigates the structure and organization of the periphery through an exploration
of the A-bar systems of Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. Traditionally the periphery has been …

Syntax at the PF Interface: Prosodic Mapping, Linear Order, and Deletion Duk-Ho An, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut, 2007 The go Page 1 Syntax at the PF Interface: Prosodic Mapping …