A neurocognitive perspective on language: The declarative/procedural model

MT Ullman - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2001 - nature.com
What are the psychological, computational and neural underpinnings of language? Are
these neurocognitive correlates dedicated to language? Do different parts of language …

Movement operations after syntax

D Embick, R Noyer - Linguistic inquiry, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a theory of movement operations that occur after the syntactic derivation, in the
PF component, within the framework of Distributed Morphology. The theory is an extension …

Person and number in pronouns: A feature-geometric analysis

H Harley, E Ritter - Language, 2002 - JSTOR
The set of person and number features necessary to characterize the pronominal paradigms
of the world's languages is highly constrained, and their interaction is demonstrably …

Making a pronoun: Fake indexicals as windows into the properties of pronouns

A Kratzer - Linguistic Inquiry, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
This article argues that natural languages have two binding strategies that create two types
of bound variable pronouns. Pronouns of the first type, which include local fake indexicals …

Polarity particle responses as a window onto the interpretation of questions and assertions

F Roelofsen, DF Farkas - Language, 2015 - JSTOR
This article provides an account of the distribution and interpretation of POLARITY
PARTICLES in responses, starting with yes and no in English, and then extending the …

Cyclic agree

S Béjar, M Rezac - Linguistic inquiry, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose that agreement displacement phenomena sensitive to person hierarchies arise
from the mechanism of Agree operating on articulated φ-feature structures in a cyclic syntax …

Head movement in linguistic theory

O Matushansky - Linguistic inquiry, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, I address the issue of head movement in current linguistic theory. I propose a
new view of the nature of heads and head movement that reveals that head movement is …

On the structure of resultative participles in English

D Embick - Linguistic Inquiry, 2004 - direct.mit.edu
The article examines the structure of resultative participles in English: participles that denote
a state resulting from a prior event, such as The cake is flattened or The metal is hammered …

Morphological and abstract case

JA Legate - Linguistic inquiry, 2008 - direct.mit.edu
This article examines the relationship between abstract and morphological case, arguing
that morphological case realizes abstract Case features in a postsyntactic morphology …

Feature gluttony

J Coon, S Keine - Linguistic Inquiry, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
This article develops a new approach to a family of hierarchy-effect-inducing configurations,
with a focus on Person Case Constraint effects, dative-nominative configurations, and …