A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical
investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion. In this book, Omer Preminger investigates …

This article surveys empirical and theoretical work on Tense‐Aspect‐Mood (''TAM'') based
split ergativity, and offers an account for how it arises. While these splits are typically …

Individual languages in the Mayan family display either rigid VSO or alternating VOS/VSO
word orders (England 1991). In this article we review problems with previous accounts of …

This chapter compares the view that ergative case is an inherent case assigned by v to an
NP that it theta-marks (the ICT) to the view that ergative case is a dependent case assigned …

Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their
distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky …

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 …

Many languages of the Mayan family restrict the extraction of transitive (ergative) subjects for
focus, wh-questions, and relativization (Ā-extraction). We follow Aissen (2017b) in labeling …

This chapter presents typical properties of the antipassive, addresses its cross-linguistic
distribution, and discusses main existing analyses.“Antipassives” are constructions in which …

The central claim of the dissertation is that the syntactic distribution of arguments depends
on abstract nominal licensing. All nominals must be (i) assigned a thematic role (Chomsky …

To date, no real consensus has emerged among syntacticians about how to derive verb-
initial order (V1); but the two main approaches, V 0-raising and VP-raising, receive …