A story of perfect agreement in Latvian

This paper investigates the syntax of the Latvian present perfect within the Minimalist Program, adopting an exoskeletal perspective on morphosyntactic structure. While cross-linguistically the perfec...

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Subjective syntax. Fronted and non-fronted French <em>de nouveau</em> ('again')

While the left periphery of French sentences has been associated with pragmatic functions such as focalization and topicalization, a unified account of fronting phenomena is still lacking. This study ...

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The subject/object asymmetry revisited: comprehending relative clauses with psychological verbs in Spanish

This study outlines an auditory comprehension task of relative clauses with Argentine Spanish object-experiencer psychological (e.g., gustar ‘to like’) and activity (e.g., sonreír ‘to smile’) predicat...

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The FormCopy Theory of Control: Remarks on Landau

In a recent article, Landau presents an articulated review of Chomsky’s FormCopy theory of control, simultaneously defending his own Two-Tiered theory. Given that raising and control are unified under...

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Countability and gender in complementary distribution: arguing for a four-category classification system in Norwegian

This paper argues for a novel view of the Norwegian noun categorization system, in which a noun can belong to one of four classes. This goes against the traditional generalization that Norwegian is a ...

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Sonority-driven stress: codas in Brazilian Portuguese

This study provides experimental evidence for sonority-driven stress in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We show that speakers systematically prefer final stress when the ultima contains a sonorant coda {N,...

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Is it syntax or syncretism? Phases and honorific case markers in Korean

This work develops a phase-based analysis of Korean honorific case markers. Korean displays an asymmetry in its case paradigm: while nominative, dative, and vocative case markers have their honorific ...

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Phonetics in phonology: why Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Martinet and others had to live in sin

One aspect of Saussure's (1916) distinction between Langue and Parole is the fact that phonetics belong to the latter and are absent in the former: no phonetics in phonology. Ever since, though, struc...

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<em>Doch</em> as a hidden hurdle to finiteness realization in German L1 Acquisition

This paper investigates the role of the German discourse particle doch in the development of finiteness in early German, in particular as it affects the development of ‘functional finiteness’, i.e. th...

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The tripartite architecture of verbal domains: Evidence from Japanese VP anaphora and light verb distributions

This paper provides empirical support for the tripartite VP structure (Voice-v-V), drawing on evidence from Japanese verbal phenomena. We examine two structural distinctions: (i) the demarcation betwe...

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Grammatical generalizations and item-specific listing in Hebrew transitivity alternations

Hebrew transitivity alternations are typically marked by a contrast in verbal template (binyan), raising the question of whether speakers generalize these template alternations through synchronic gram...

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Metalinguistic negation in Jordanian Arabic: Clause-initial <em>miš/mū </em>as a high objection operator

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper argues that clause-initial miš/mū in Jordanian Arabic (JA) instantiates a dedicated objectional/metalinguistico...

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Coordination of predicates and modifiers in a Meaning-Dependent Grammar

The problem of the coordination of unlike syntactic categories is addressed in the framework of Categoriless Meaning-Dependent Grammar advocated by Elbourne. In particular, the phenomenon of the coord...

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Implicating without intentions

Building on Geurts (2019) programmatic proposal, this paper develops a commitment-based model of Scalar Implicatures (SIs) that shifts the explanatory focus from speaker intentions and mental states t...

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Subject position and island effects in Spanish: Experimental evidence

Constructions that inhibit the formation of long-distance dependencies like wh-questions are known as islands. In Spanish, it has been claimed that pre-verbal subjects are islands but post-verbal subj...

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Structural and semantic factors in the <em>belief-intent</em> alternation in Basque

Clause-embedding predicates alternating between a complement expressing a belief and a complement expressing an intention seem to be quite widespread both inside and across languages. The two differen...

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Noun-noun coordination in English and functional structure in the nominal domain

I argue that, when two bare nouns are coordinated in English, the resultant coordinate structure does not intrinsically project a number feature. I also argue that this fact is more straightforwardly ...

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The typology of government by adpositions: towards an understanding of “differential”

Adpositions may govern case, and there is dramatic variation in the case values found. Different adpositions often govern different cases, which means that we need to partition (or split) the adpositi...

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Adjunct Island Effect on Wh-Scrambling in Korean

In this squib, we present experimental evidence that Korean wh-scrambling, unlike non-wh-scrambling or wh-in-situ, is constrained by the -ttay temporal adjunct island effect. We further show that this...

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Greek declaratives <em>and-what-not</em>: form, structure and interpretation

The present paper focuses on a peculiar Greek construction with the following characteristic properties: (i) the licensing of fronted wh-words that denote variables in the context of a non-interrogati...

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Mid Vowel Alternation in Menominee: A Substance-Free Search Account

A substance-free logical analysis is given concerning the mid vowel alternation in Menominee, one of the frequently mentioned cases in the studies of vowel harmony. The analysis consists of only rules...

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Passing the torch

Johan Rooryck is stepping down as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, having served two consecutive terms as Editor-in-Chief for a total of 10 years. The members of the edi...

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Using Temporal Stability to Probe the Syllabification of Medial Geminates: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic

This paper investigates whether the syllabification of medial geminates can be probed using temporal stability measures (Browman &amp; Goldstein 1988; Goldstein et al. 2007). Theoretical accounts trea...

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Substantiating substance free phonology: Evidence from the neurobiology of phonology

A central goal of the substance-free phonology (SFP) framework is to identify how much abstraction from phonetic detail is present in human phonological representations. One large challenge, however, ...

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Predicational copular clauses in Igbo

This paper examines binominal predicational copular clauses (PCCs) in Igbo, a Benue-Congo language, which exhibits a distinction between two copulas, bụ́ and dị́. By exploring the syntactic and interp...

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Feature sharing in possessor agreement

Inalienable possessors that are internal to an NP headed by a possessed noun show evidence in support of FEATURE SHARING through agreement between a possessor controller and a possessed target in the ...

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The role of opacity in the attrition of the Hungarian passive

It is argued that the passive construction, common in the SOV Ob-Ugric sister languages of Hungarian displaying fused grammatical and discourse functions, was a frequent construction in Proto-Hungaria...

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Animacy as a key to island amelioration: evidence from Saudi Arabic <em>wh-</em>questions

This study examines whether animacy affects the acceptability and processing of island-violating wh-questions in Saudi Arabic, and whether this effect interacts with tail type—gap or resumptive pronou...

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Processing standard and expletive negation: An eye-tracking study on Italian temporal and causal clauses

Natural language sometimes expresses negation in rather puzzlingly different forms. Different from Standard Negation (SN), Expletive Negation (EN) involves a negative marker that does not affect the t...

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Sub-extracting out of the Icelandic *ABA problem

Icelandic nominal declension show (acc = dat) ≠ gen syncretisms which go against Caha's (2009) cross-linguistic pattern of of acc &gt; gen &gt; dat and hence seemingly violate the *ABA generalisation ...

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