This chapter provides an introduction to the phenomenon of prosodic focus, as well as to the
theory of Alternative Semantics. Alternative Semantics provides an insightful account of what …

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Despite the status of crossover phenomena as key data in the theoretical study of
pronominal syntax/semantics, crossover structures have been subjected to relatively …

To this end, the present study concerns three research questions:(i) whether deep learning
can detect syntactically inappropriate constructions,(ii) whether deep learning's acceptability …

Constraints on binding/coreference are a key component of syntactic theory. However,
collecting reliable and interpretable acceptability judgments of binding and coreference in …

This article aims to provide a concise overview of the most relevant topics concerning the
implementation of acceptability judgments in generative research. The first part focuses on …

Purpose: An interview is a form of verbal communication that utilizes prosody to influence
the heuristics of listeners, in which quick and guided understanding is realized. To date, this …

The topic of anaphora has played an important role in the development of syntactic theories.
For example, reflexive binding is widely used as a diagnostic for c-command, the distribution …

Despite the status of crossover phenomena as key data in the theoretical study of
pronominal syntax/semantics, crossover structures have been subjected to relatively little …

This article concerns the so-called unbound reflexive pronouns in English, which refer to self-
forms without any sentence-internal antecedents, running counter to the classic Binding …