This dissertation is concerned with the broad question of why auxiliary verbs occur in natural
language. Much previous work has assumed that the occurrence of auxiliary verbs is …

Let us return to the question of whether the two readings differ in event complex-ity. This
would mean that the verbs under discussion productively have two event construals. Two …

This paper presents a new general proposal concerning the syntax of ellipsis. We argue that
phrasal ellipsis is always preceded by, and depends on, some independent process that …

Northern Illinois University is paper revisits the phenomenon “finiteness” both as nominative
case and an opaque syntactic domain. It redefines finiteness as consisting of features at …

Counterfactual conditionals (CFs) in many languages are marked by “fake” temporal
inflection: tense or aspect markers that do not contribute their standard temporal meanings …

This paper focuses on the two conditional antecedent morphemes in Turkish,-(y) sA and-sA,
and how the past morpheme interacts with them to generate different interpretations …

This dissertation investigates the neural bases and development of displacement, which is a
language property that allows us to communicate about situations outside the here-and …