In this dissertation, I identify and analyze several new generalizations about how phrasal
displacement and discontinuity are constrained in natural language. These patterns reveal, I …

The English transitive resultative construction (TRC) is considered one of the most difficult
constructions for learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The present study …

This paper proposes that a particular conception of the Spell-Out operation provides a
hitherto unnoticed way of determining a label of otherwise unlabeled syntactic objects. It is …

This dissertation investigates the argument structure of verb phrases by identifying the
syntactic roles and locations of the functional heads it consists of. Since the early 1990s, it …

This article describes and analyzes possessor extraction (PE) in English, a restricted
possibility in the colloquial language of some speakers. I argue that the complexities of this …

This paper investigates the distribution of stranding in intermediate positions under A′-
movement, which I show obeys a cross-linguistically robust word order generalization …

INVESTIGATIONS ON SALVATION AND NON-SALVATION BY DELETION Gesoel Mendes,
Doctor of Philosophy, 2020 Professor Norbert H Page 1 ABSTRACT Title of dissertation …

In many Malayic languages (western Austronesian), subjects can undergo A'-movement
without any special qualification, whereas non-subject nominals can only A'-move if the verb …

In this dissertation I provide an account of the distribution of Korean clause-typing markers
from the perspective of a formal typological model, the Universal Spine Hypothesis …

This dissertation explores a cross-linguistic trend of a diachronic loss of obligatory syntactic
movement, which includes the loss of phrasal movement, as in the new observation …