A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its
empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. Impossible Persons, Daniel …

In this dissertation, I investigate the sensitivity of ϕ-agreement to features typically
associated with Ā-extraction, including those related to wh-questioning, relativization, focus …

A number of authors have observed that languages exhibit a resistance against accidental
repetition of morphemes (Perlmutter 1971; Stemberger 1981; Menn and MacWhinney 1983; …

In this paper, we propose that there is a speech-act structure in the nominal spine, just as
there is in the clausal spine. Its function is to encode what we do when we utter a nominal …

In several three cell paradigms, it has been observed that one logically conceivable pattern–
ABA under some arrangement of cells–is unattested. Existing approaches assume that …

Person systems convey the roles entities play in the context of speech (eg, speaker,
addressee). As with other linguistic category systems, not all ways of partitioning the person …

I argue that third person is not underspecified: there must be a distinct third person feature. I
add to the existing body of morphological arguments for this conclusion (Nevins 2007; …

This paper focuses on overt impersonal pronouns such as English one and Dutch men in
eight Germanic languages (English, Frisian, Icelandic, Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian …

The present article argues that temporality can be computed indirectly via evidentiality, and
that this is the case for Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language. To model the evidential …

В статье, посвященной изучению синкретизма дискурсивных слов (дискурсивов)
русской научной речи, наряду с двумя основными типами дискурсивов регулятивами и …