Articulated definiteness without articles

P Jenks - Linguistic inquiry, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While it lacks a definite article, Mandarin makes a principled distinction between unique and
anaphoric definites: unique definites are realized with a bare noun, and anaphoric definites …

[图书][B] Features of person: From the inventory of persons to their morphological realization

P Ackema, A Neeleman - 2018 - books.google.com
A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a
“person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression. This book offers a significant …

First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling

L Paparounas, M Salzmann - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2024 - Springer
We investigate the syntax of the hitherto understudied phenomenon of first conjunct clitic
doubling, with reference to Modern Greek. We argue that it provides crucial evidence …

Multiple determiners and the structure of DPs

A Alexiadou - 2014 - torrossa.com
The research reported here has occupied me for a such a long time, and it has benefited
from the suggestions and comments of a large number of linguists. I owe special thanks to …

[图书][B] The morphosyntax of Albanian and Aromanian varieties: case, agreement, complementation

MR Manzini, L Savoia - 2018 - books.google.com
This book deals with Albanian, including the dialects spoken in Southern Italy, and with the
Aromanian spoken in Southern Albania. These languages are set in the context of current …

Linkers and agreement

L Franco, L Savoia, MR Manzini - The Linguistic Review, 2015 - degruyter.com
In many languages a linker element is inserted between a noun N and a modifier or a
complement of N. We focus on Albanian articles and on Iranian ezafes, and we introduce …

Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek: From interpretation to structure

N Angelopoulos, D Sportiche - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2021 - Springer
This article focuses on Clitic Left Dislocation of XPs in French and Greek. By examining the
interpretive properties of these XPs, primarily reconstruction properties, it concludes that …

Unagreement is an illusion: Apparent person mismatches and nominal structure

GFK Höhn - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2016 - Springer
This paper proposes an analysis of unagreement, a phenomenon involving an apparent
mismatch between a definite third person plural subject and first or second person plural …

Ellipsis in appositives

D Ott - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2016 - glossa-journal.org
This paper investigates the internal and external syntax of non-restrictive nominal
appositives (NAPs), such as John Smith in I met an old friend, John Smith, at the pub. It is …

Investigating the syntax of speech acts: Embedding illocutionary force

R Woods - 2016 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
This dissertation examines the notion of illocutionary force and whether it is embeddable by
examining the syntax, semantics and pragmatic effects of a range of root-like embedded …