We argue that head movement, as an operation that builds head-adjunction structures in the
syntax, has been used to model two empirically distinct classes of phenomena. One class …

This paper argues that the traditional view of experience-dependent properties (learned
properties) of language as developing late and non-experience-dependent properties as …

In this groundbreaking monograph, Anna Maria Di Sciullo proposes that asymmetry—the
irreversibility of a pair of elements in an ordered set—is a hard-wired property of …

In a head-final language, V-raising is hard to detect since there is no evidence from the
string to support a raising analysis. If the language has a cliticlike negation that associates …

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 concentrates on Sells's (1995) arguments against the syntactic view that words
are built in the syntax, and it develops a syntactic account that yields a parsimonious …

Covering both core and peripheral phenomena,'he Syntactic Structures of Korean'is a
concrete and precise grammar of the language. Based on the framework of Sign-based …

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies,
based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change …

A fundamental question in the study of human language acquisition centers around
apportioning explanatory force between the experience of the learner and the core …

Korean has two types of sentential negation: long and short. Long negation occurs after the
main verb, followed by the light verb ha-'do', as in (la). Functioning like the do of do-support …