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VP-ellipsis KU Leuven
How (not) to elide negation KU Leuven
This paper examines the behavior of English negative indefinites under VP-ellipsis. The main empirical observation is that negative indefinites cannot take scope out of a verbal ellip- sis site. We propose that negative indefinites involve fusion under adjacency between the clausal polarity head and an indefinite determiner, and that this adjacency comes about under multidomi- nance. Multidominance can feed the morphological coalescence of two ...
How to merge a root KU Leuven
© 2015 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The main goal of this article is to show that four properties of roots can be derived in a principled manner from the theory of Merge. The properties in question are the following: (a) roots have no grammatical features, (b) roots have no syntactic category, (c) roots are defined structurally rather than lexically, and (d) roots are dominated by functional material (rather than the other way ...
On diagnosing complement-taking roots KU Leuven
Long split focalization in Hungarian and the typology of A′-dependencies KU Leuven
We show that hitherto unstudied constructions of long split focalization (LSF) in Hungarian provide evidence for a double derivation analysis, in that they can involve either a movement derivation or a base-generation one. These derivations correlate with different patterns of verbal definiteness agreement and case marking. The evidence for the double derivation analysis comes from two sources. First, there is systematic speaker variation in the ...