J Merchant - Linguistic Inquiry, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Greek voice and aspect jointly condition verbal stem allomorphy, including suppletion. Negation and tense in English do likewise. These cases show that stem allomorphy cannot …
The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces.'Phases' provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective. If phases are fundamental …
The starting point of this paper is the observation that English temporal and conditional clauses resist argument fronting. The first part of the paper discusses the empirical and …
This dissertation proposes a novel theory of the phonology-morphology interface called Optimal Interleaving (OI). OI is based on Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC) …
This thesis explores transparent and opaque interactions of operations in Minimalist syntax in order to gain insights into the nature of elementary operations and their mode of …
T Güldemann, S Zerbian, M Zimmermann - Annu. Rev. Linguist., 2015 - annualreviews.org
Information structure has been one of the central topics of recent linguistic research. This review discusses a wide range of current approaches with particular reference to African …
This article shows that once it is accepted that a single morpheme can lexicalize a “span” of heads rather than a single head, it becomes possible to establish the complex structures …
In this article, I argue for a decomposition of the Path head in the syntactic structure for directional expressions. Based on crosslinguistic data showing that different types of paths …
Exploring Nanosyntax provides the first in-depth introduction to the framework of nanosyntax, which originated in the early 2000s as a formal theory of language within …