Reference is a core property of language. In any given language, a number of expressions
can be used to refer to new and familiar entities. This dissertation is concerned with the …

Critics of generative syntax have sometimes alleged that, despite its universalist aspirations,
real world data provide an inexhaustible list of counterexamples to even its most carefully …

The traditional focus of variationist sociolinguistic research is the patterning of language
variation at the level of the community, which individual language users are said to learn …

This study investigates pronoun interpretation by second language (L2) learners of English,
focusing on whether first language (L1) transfer and/or processing difficulty affect L2 …

The present thesis investigates a set of issues related to the domain of complementation
within the West-African Manding language Jula. We focus on two complements types …

Null object (NO) constructions in Korean and Japanese have received different accounts: as
(a) argument ellipsis (Oku 1998, S. Kim 1999, Saito 2007, Sakamoto 2015),(b) VP-ellipsis …

This study reports on findings from two experiments investigating the interpretive patterns of
overt pronouns in an embedded subject position with three types of matrix subjects (ie a …

This paper aims to account for null arguments in Korean under pro analysis. Korean is a
radical pro-drop language; therefore pro is extremely productive. Thus, if pro analysis can …

This dissertation investigates pronoun interpretation and processing of two languages
(Korean and English), as well as in the second language (L2) acquisition of English by …

Abstract The Korean VP anaphor (VPA) kuleha or kulay 'do so'has often been argued to
involve ellipsis of an articulated VP structure, which is replaced with the surface form at PF …