The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) is a family of restrictions on the relative person of the two
objects of a ditransitive. PCC effects offer a testing ground for theories of Agree and of …

The Bantu languages are in some sense remarkably uniform (SVO basic word order, noun
classes, verbal morphology), but this extensive language family also show a wealth of …

The central claim of the dissertation is that the syntactic distribution of arguments depends
on abstract nominal licensing. All nominals must be (i) assigned a thematic role (Chomsky …

It has been claimed in the generative syntax literature that the implicit argument of a short
passive can bind a reflexive pronoun. Some cases are listed below:(1) a. Such privileges …

To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception
verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked …

In this dissertation, I identify and analyze several new generalizations about how phrasal
displacement and discontinuity are constrained in natural language. These patterns reveal, I …

This chapter provides further evidence that the Person Case Constraint (PCC) in Romance
is not limited to clitic clusters. Previously, this has been shown for Spanish (Ormazabal & …

Classical syntactic theory was designed to ensure that raising would be able to proceed out
of infinitival clauses, but not out of finite clauses. However, it has since become clear that a …

This paper highlights the importance of the distinction between general linguistics (the study
of Human Language) and particular linguistics (the study of individual languages), which is …

In this paper we compare dative ditransitive structures in nativized and nativizing urban
varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, using …