In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on
heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to …

The article proposes a new theory of successive-cyclic movement that reconciles the early
and the current minimalist approaches to it. As in the early approach, there is no feature …

In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or
agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This …

This article examines the relationship between abstract and morphological case, arguing
that morphological case realizes abstract Case features in a postsyntactic morphology …

This paper provides a new analysis of the phenomenon of Long Distance Agreement in
Hindi-Urdu and argues for a dissociation between case and agreement. Long Distance …

Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental
to every language. Looking at how different theories of syntax have accounted for the …

This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena.
Pronominal resumption is the realization of the base of a syntactic dependency as a bound …

It is a general assumption in linguistic theory that the categories of tense, aspect, and mood
(TAM) are inflectional categories of verbal classes only. In a number of languages around …

The present paper presents a cross-linguistic overview of animacy effects in (differential)
case marking, and provides an explanation for the attested patterns in terms of two …

This dissertation shows how languages differ in their morphosyntactic sensitivity to
variations in the semantics of direct objects. Whereas some languages reflect semantic …