N Chomsky - Linguistic inquiry, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an “organ of the body,” along with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three factors that interact to …
G Chierchia - Linguistic inquiry, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a unified theory of polarity-sensitive items (PSIs) based on the notion of domain widening. PSIs include negative polarity items (like Italian mai 'ever'), universal free …
A Holmberg - Syntax–theory and analysis: An international handbook, 2015 - lingbuzz.net
A language is called a verb-second (V2) language when the finite verb is obligatorily the second constituent, either specifically in main clauses or in all finite clauses.(1) a. Jag har …
M Frascarelli - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2007 - Springer
In this paper a novel approach to (a subpart of) the null subject parameter is proposed, in which the interpretation of a thematic pro in subject position is crucially dependent on the …
This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre …
Speakers have competent intuitions in assessing word order alternations as well as in judging different prosodic patterns. Speakers can find a certain superficial word order tout …
This paper compares two different ways that natural languages have to deal with personal arguments. In “animacy-based” systems (exemplified here by Plains Cree) the transitive verb …
L Haegeman, T Lohndal - Linguistic Inquiry, 2010 - direct.mit.edu
This article examines the formalization of negative concord in terms of the Minimalist Program, focusing entirely on negative concord in West Flemish. It is shown that a recent …
This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical …