A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the
correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning …

What do you know, if you know that a language has' Object Verb'structure rather than'Verb
Object'? Answering this question and many others, this book provides an essential guide to …

The study of Russian is of great importance to syntactic theory, due in particular to its
unusual case system and its complex word order patterns. This book provides an essential …

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Mikkelsen John Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today 85 …

This thesis is a theoretical investigation of various dimensions of symmetry exhibited in
human language. I discuss two kinds of symmetry: AGREEMENT SYMMETRY and …

The main thesis of this dissertation is that morphological case is a purely morphological
phenomenon, determined exclusively within the post-Spell-out portion of the derivation on …

Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long
from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my …

While proper names in argument positions have received a lot of attention, this cannot be
said about proper names in the naming construction, as in “Call me Al”. I argue that in a …

ABSTRACT I propose an analysis of the inflectional system of clauses that captures both
crosslinguistic variation and differences between adult speakers and young children …

Two interrelated facts make Icelandic finite verb agreement particularly interesting. First,
Icelandic has so-called quirky or non-nominative subjects that never control agreement …