Constructions work Page 1 Constructions work ADELE E. GOLDBERG1 Abstract This paper
provides responses to the points raised in this volume in an e¤ort to evaluate, clarify and …

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

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 …

We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro
drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns …

This article pursues the idea that null arguments are derived without any statement or
parameter, instead following “naturally” from 3rd factor principles and effects (in the sense of …

The properties of animacy and definiteness/specificity are implicated in the triggering of a
number of (otherwise seemingly unrelated) morphosyntactic phenomena (see Aissen 2003 …

This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the
Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and …

Adopting Vallduví's partition of the background into link and tail, I provide an account for
Italian data. Being links pre-focal expressions, and tails post-focal, right dislocated …

This chapter provides an in-depth coverage of the main features of the LFG framework,
focusing mainly on its syntactic representations: c-and f-structure. The makeup of each level …

This thesis explores the meaning and functions of discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa, a
Quechuan language spoken in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The enclitics in question are non …