Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This
book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative …

We present a series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored
Norwegian island phenomena in order to follow up on previous observations that speakers …

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

Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity
we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This book introduces …

Object relatives (ORs) have been reported to cause heavier processing loads than subject
relatives (SRs) in both pre-and postnominal position (prenominai relatives: Miyamoto & …

Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the
processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research …

The question of whether languages like Korean and Japanese possess genuine instances
of Subject-to-Object Raising (SOR) has been a matter of debate since Kuno (1976), as a …

In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word
order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the …

Long-distance dependencies have long been at the center of linguists' attention, and have
played an important role in the ongoing dialogue between theoreticians and …

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 …