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Invariance in argument realization: The case of Iroquoian
(Linguistic Society of America, 2015)
The relevance of the concepts of local syntactic selection and constraints on locally selected dependents
in modeling how arguments are syntactically realized has been virtually unchallenged
and is assumed to be universal. ...
Linearization-based word-part ellipsis
(Springer Verlag, 2008)
This paper addresses a phenomenon in which certain word-parts can be
omitted. The evidence shows that the full range of data cannot be captured
by a sublexical analysis, since the phenomena can be observed both in ...
Construction-based cumulation and adjunct extraction
(CSLI Publications, 2009)
Previous HPSG accounts of extraction blur the distinction between valents
and adjuncts by allowing verbs to lexically control the modifiers that combine
with their phrasal projections. However, assuming that adjuncts ...
On the syntax and semantics of vice versa
(CSLI Publications, 2010)
This work focuses on the syntax and semantics of the expression vice
versa, and shows that its syntactic distribution is much more flexible than
semantically related expressions. Although vice versa usually appears ...
Inside-out constraints and Description Languages for HPSG
(CSLI Publications, 1998)
An important contrast between most current syntactic frameworks and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar or Lexical Functional Grammar (hereafter HPSG and LFG respectively) is the common insistence of the latter two on the ...
What does it mean to be a dependent?
(CSLI Publications, 2003)
This paper shows that the Gerund Phrase (GP) in the Spanish Gerund
Construction (e.g., El jefe entr´o a su oficina corriendo, lit. ‘The boss entered
his office running’) is sometimes a complement (in SGCC) and sometimes ...
Coordination of unlikes without unlike categories
(CSLI Publications, 2006)
Several analysis of Coordination of Unlikes have been proposed within
the HPSG framework. In some of these approaches the possible combinations
of ‘unlike categories’ are encoded in the grammar, while other accounts
resort ...
On the Russian hybrid coordination construction
(CSLI Publications, 2007)
This paper discusses a coordination construction that occurs in Russian in
which constituents with different syntactic functions and different thematic
roles are conjoined. These conjuncts are co-arguments of the same ...
On the disunity of Right-Node Raising phenomena: extraposition, ellipsis, and deletion
(Linguistic Society of America, 2014)
The empirical facts about right-node raising (RNR) lead to fundamentally conflicting analytical
conclusions. There is strong evidence that RNR does not obey syntactic constraints of any
kind, which in turn suggests that ...
Morphosyntax of Two Turkish Subject Pronominal Paradigms
(John Benjamins, 2005)
Turkish exhibits two different sets of subject ‘agreement markers’ which show
different morphosyntactic behavior from each other. It is argued here that one set of these
markers are morphological suffixes while the other ...