Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their
distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky …

The DP-hypothesis as proposed in Abney (1987) is nowadays generally taken for granted in
formal syntactic work. In this paper I will show that a surprising number of arguments that …

The central proposal of this thesis is that the status of ergativity within a given Inuit variety is
directly attributable to the underlying status of its object agreement morphology, and that this …

This dissertation investigates the correspondences between syntactic, prosodic, and
metrical constituents in Blackfoot (Algonquian), a polysynthetic language. I propose that the …

Fijian displays a crosslinguistically unusual system of differential object marking
(DOM)(Alderete 1998; Aranovich 2013). In typical DOM effects, objects higher in animacy …

This article deals with a so-far unnoticed phenomenon in prosodic phonology, which we dub
prosodic smothering. Prosodic smothering arises when the prosodic status of a clitic or affix …

Light verb constructions (LVCs) are the compositional form of a verb and a noun. The
construction is usually denoting an idiomatic meaning. This study aimed at identifying and …

West Circassian displays prominent polysynthetic morphology both in the verbal and
nominal domains and both syntactic categories are subject to the same morphological …

Abstract The Extended Projection Principle (EPP) formalizes the requirement for a subject in
every clause. In this dissertation, I develop a typology of EPP effects based on a sample of …

• We are developing a theoretical framework that couples Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG;
Bresnan et al. 2016) with the realizational, morpheme-based approach to word-formation of …