Discourse particles provide important clues to our understanding of the syntax-to-discourse
relation. They are sensitive to sentence types and utterance contexts. As such they seem to …

The goal of this book is to explore the diachronic development of subject-verb agreement,
focusing on the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as inflectional formatives. It is shown that …

South Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the
similarities and differences of about forty languages from the four different language families …

Optionality in movement operations is widely held to be fundamentally incompatible with a
feature-driven approach to displacement in which movement must be triggered and …

This paper investigates the licensing of Argument Ellipsis/AE in three major languages of
South Asia: Bangla, Malayalam and Hindi and a recent claim made in Şener and Takahashi …

Classifier languages are often described as lacking genuine number morphology and
treating all common nouns, including those conceptually count, as an unindividuated mass …

Mahajan (1997) and Simpson and Bhattacharya (2003) analyze Indo-Aryan languages such
as Hindi-Urdu and Bangla as SVO. We argue against this position, drawing on rightward …

This article provides an overview of the issues and proposals surrounding wh‐in‐situ since
the 1980s. In particular, it discusses the question of whether or not in‐situ wh‐phrases …

Wh‐in‐situ Page 3232 77 Wh -in-Situ JOSEF BAYER 1 Introduction 2 The phenomenon in the
context of LF theory 2.1 Multiple interrogatives 2.2 Wh -in-situ languages vs. wh -moving …

272 Chapter 60 Merchant: Sluicing c. Beth was there, but you'll never guess who else was
there. d. Jack called, but I don't know {when/how/why} he called. e. Sally's out hunting …