Several proposals suggest a φ-feature dependency between C 0 and T 0 (see, eg,,). In most
(if not all) of these proposals, the core piece of empirical evidence is complementizer …

The Interface Principle posits that morphosyntactic variation does not elicit the same kinds of
perceptual reactions as phonetic variables because “members of the speech community …

This paper has two main theoretical aims:(i) to argue for the utility of a lexical, feature-based,
approach to intra-dialectal and inter-dialectal language variation, confirming and extending …

This chapter is somewhat programmatic, and sketches a way of reconceiving the notion of
parameter of Universal Grammar along novel lines, intended to meet recent criticisms from …

This paper examines register-based language internal variation, focussing on subject
omission in English diaries. This register-specific pattern might be seen as some kind of …

The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a
topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops …

Abstract In Negative Concord (NC) sentences, single negative meanings are expressed by
two or more negative words. English speakers that use NC also employ Double Negation …

Listeners can successfully interpret the intended meaning of an utterance even when it
contains errors or other unexpected anomalies. The present work combines an online …

Accents and dialects of English and Scots in Britain have been under active investigation for
many decades, as reported through the Survey of English Dialects (Orton et al. 1962–71) …

Existing work shows that readers often interpret grammatical errors (eg, The key to the
cabinets* were shiny) and sentence-level blends (“without-blend”: Claudia left without her …