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There have been two approaches to embedded topicalization in English: (1) the IP adjunction analysis by Baltin (1982) and Lasnik and Saito (1992); and (2) the CP recursion analysis by Authier (1992) and Watanabe (1993). The purpose of this paper is to defend the IP adjunction analysis and to derive restrictions on embedded topicalization from an independently motivated condition. We will argue that...
This paper shows that apparent agreement mismatches in constructions headed by the neuter determiner in Spanish are actually instances of specifier-head agreement at different stages in the derivation of relative cluses and related constructions. The proposed analysis incorporates Kayne's (1994) theory of adjective raising within DPs and a detailed study of the semantic interpretation of resulting...
Relativization in English is today commonly analysed in terms of a dichotomy of a wh-strategy and a non-wh-strategy, said to be applied in different dialects or levels of usage. The present paper approaches the question from a dialectological angle, concentrating on the non-wh-relativizers that, at, as and what, which are today mostly classed as conjunctions (complementizers) but have in fact genitive...
Ekegusii, a Kenyan Bantu language, exhibits a complex array of tonal patterns in the finite verbal system including bounded High displacement, bounded High spreading, and unbounded High spreading, each of which is 'blocked' from applying in certain configurations. Bickmore (1997) provided a derivational analysis of these facts, but found basic assumptions regarding adjacency and the OCP had to be...
This paper explores some consequences of Chomsky's (1995) Attract F theory. In particular, I propose a way to reconcile Attract F with some apparent evidence for Move. My analysis is based on a particular view of category movement proposed in Chomsky (1995), according to which when the category moves, two separate chains are formed: CH FF and CH CAT . CH F ...
The present paper is concerned with wh-in-situ in English and Japanese. Although it has been standard since Huang (1982) that wh-phrases in-situ undergo LF movement, a number of linguists argue that they do not move, but are 'unselectively bound'. The new set of data in this paper is better accounted for by the LF movement approach to wh-in-situ than by the unselective binding approach. In particular,...
It is well known that unaccented pronouns in English cannot occur in the postverbal position in locative inversion, in the postparticle position in a verb + particle construction, and in the second NP position in a double construction. This study shows that the hypothesis that pronouns must appear in a derived position is valid, and that by adopting such a position we can explain the restrictions...
This study deals with the problems presented by postverbal subjects in constructions with unaccusative verbs, because they apparently are counterexamples to the explanatory power of the Unaccusative Hypothesis. The paper defends the position that such examples do not weaken the hypothesis since it is assumed that such postverbal subjects ought to leave the original object position and move to a position...
Like the other Celtic languages, Welsh has systems of word-initial consonant alternations known as mutations. Typically, mutation is triggered by an immediately preceding lexical item of some kind. However, Harlow (1989) pointed out that there are examples where mutation seems to be triggered by an immediately preceding NP. Borsley and Tallerman (1998) argue that mutation is in fact triggered by...
Modern Icelandic and fifteenth-century English are both usually thought of as VO languages. Yet, the literature on Icelandic contains descriptions of four different syntactic patterns in which OV can be found, and recent empirical work on fifteenth-century English texts shows that this language allows OV order in exactly the same patterns. This paper addresses the causes of this hitherto unnoticed...
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