Whither head movement?

B Harizanov, V Gribanova - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2019 - Springer
We argue that head movement, as an operation that builds head-adjunction structures in the
syntax, has been used to model two empirically distinct classes of phenomena. One class …

Anaphor binding: What French inanimate anaphors show

I Charnavel, D Sportiche - Linguistic Inquiry, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to different ideas about what counts as an anaphor subject to Condition A, two
influential but superficially incompatible versions of Condition A of binding theory have …

Anaphora and agreement in the Turkish DP: Delimiting binding-through-Agree

L Paparounas, F Akkuş - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2024 - Springer
Whether the operation Agree should be taken to underlie anaphoric binding has been the
topic of much recent debate. In this paper, we provide a novel empirical argument in favor of …

[图书][B] Voice at the interfaces: The syntax, semantics, and morphology of the Hebrew verb

I Kastner - 2020 - library.oapen.org
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew
morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of …

The whole picture: Disentangling locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in English picture noun anaphora

I Charnavel, S Bryant - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2023 - Springer
This article provides a solution to the long-standing puzzle of English anaphors within so-
called picture noun phrases, which superficially exhibit an exceptional binding behavior. In …

Discourse participants and the structural representation of the context

X Zu - 2018 - search.proquest.com
The starting point of this dissertation is the observation that the utterance context is essential
in the way we understand a great number of expressions in natural languages. With a few …

Logophoricity and locality: A view from French anaphors

I Charnavel - Linguistic Inquiry, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many unrelated languages, the same anaphor is either subject to Condition A of the
binding theory, or exempt from it but with specific interpretive properties. On the basis of …

Syntactic ergativity in West Circassian

KA Ershova - 2019 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation explores the relation between the notion of subjecthood and syntactic
ergativity through the lens of West Circassian (or Adyghe; of the Northwest Caucasian …

The ToBI transcription system: conventions, strengths, and challenges

SA Jun - 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Decisions regarding what information a prosodic transcription should include vary
depending on the goal of transcription. For example, the goal may be to (i) represent the …

A formal characterization of person-based alignment: The case of Paraguayan Guaraní

ML Zubizarreta, R Pancheva - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2017 - Springer
We put forth a formal analysis within the Minimalist framework of argument alignment in
languages with one type of direct/inverse system. Our proposal involves the cyclical …