Traditional approaches to verbal periphrasis (compound tenses) treat auxiliary verbs as
lexical items that enter syntactic derivation like any other lexical item, via Selection/Merge …

Upwards-oriented complementizer agreement raises questions about the directionality and
locality of agreement. Based on novel data from original fieldwork, we argue that what has …

Productive morphological causatives in isiXhosa exhibit a case alternation with respect to
the causee: it can be unmarked or instrumental. Much recent literature on similar …

This paper reports a case of true Backward Control which involves neither covert A-
movement nor φ-agreement–two previously proposed mechanisms for Backward Control …

This squib documents a novel empirical generalization from selection in Semitic: lexically
selected PPs can vary by (verbal) template. This discovery is problematic for current …

This paper reports a case of NOM/ACC alignment in agreement that results from the relative
timing of A-movement and φ-agreement, and not from the position of φ-probes or the …

This dissertation investigates the semantics of each tense and aspect in Xhosa. Since tense
and aspect perform important pragmatic functions, the analysis takes into account the …

A basic question for theories of the syntax–semantics interface is whether the relationship
between the form and meaning of complex aspectual expressions is mediated by the pieces …

Abstract Since (Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by itself. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press),
the disparate morphosyntactic roles that past participle forms have in Latin (and Italian) …

Recent work has shown that dummy AUX (iliaries) arise when two features compete for the
same word (Kiparsky 2004, Bjorkman 2011, Pietraszko 2017). I show that this pattern is also …