Can construction grammar be proven wrong?

B Cappelle - Elements in Construction Grammar, 2024 - cambridge.org
Construction Grammar has gained prominence in linguistics, owing its popularity to its
inclusive approach that considers language units of varying sizes and generality as potential …

Factivity and complementizer omission in English embedded gapping

G Bîlbîie, I de La Fuente, A Abeillé - Journal of Linguistics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Taking as a starting point the variation in introspective judgments on embedded gapping in
English in the literature, the main goal of this paper is to test the 'No Embedding Constraint' …

Me too fragments in English and French: a direct interpretation approach

A Abeillé, JB Kim - The Linguistic Review, 2022 - degruyter.com
Additive fragments, comprising a nominal remnant and an additive adverb (eg, too, either),
are a particular type of stripping. On the basis of new corpus data in English and French, we …

An experimental perspective on embedded gapping in Persian

G Bîlbîie, P Faghiri - The Linguistic Review, 2022 - degruyter.com
This paper empirically tests the embedding constraints on gapping in Persian. It has been
suggested that gapping differs from other kinds of ellipsis in banning embedding. However …

Syntaxe quantitative et expérimentale: objets et méthodes

G Bîlbîie, P Faghiri, J Thuilier - Langages, 2021 - cairn.info
Dans cet article, nous abordons la question des données utilisées dans la recherche en
syntaxe. Nous proposons d'abord une approche critique des jugements de grammaticalité …

The empirical turn and its consequences for theoretical syntax

A Abeillé - Theoretical Linguistics, 2024 - degruyter.com
In a pioneer paper, Featherston (Featherston, Sam. 2007. Data in generative grammar: The
stick and the carrot. Theoretical Linguistics 33. 269–318) advocated the use of better …

L'ellipse verbale enchâssée dans les langues romanes

G Bîlbîie, I De La Fuente, A Abeillé - Langages, 2021 - cairn.info
Nous montrons l'apport de la linguistique expérimentale pour une perspective comparative
plus fine sur les phrases elliptiques, au-delà des jugements obtenus par l'introspection des …

An experimental approach to parallelism in ellipsis: The case of pro-drop in Romance gapping

G Bîlbîie, I de La Fuente - … Theory 2017: Selected papers from'Going …, 2021 - degruyter.com
The present study investigates parallelism constraints in Romance gapping with pro-drop.
We provide empirical evidence from two acceptability judgment tasks in Romanian and …

Coordination in Syntax in the Romance Languages

A Abeillé - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2022 - oxfordre.com
Coordination in Syntax in the Romance Languages | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of
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Complementizer deletion in embedded gapping in Spanish

M Bonke, S Repp - The Linguistic Review, 2022 - degruyter.com
Gapping in embedded environments may occur in two configurations:(i) the whole
coordination containing both conjuncts is embedded (= embedded gapping, EG),(ii) the …