Thesis Collection
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Syntaxis -- V. 02, (1999)
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Symmetry and antisymmetry in syntax
(2010-04-28)New evidence is provided that Romance Clitic Right-Dislocation cannot be the mirror image of Clitic Left-Dislocation nor its covert counterpart. It is also shown that an analysis postulating two leftward topic ... -
Scope parallelism and the resolution of ellipsis at the syntax-semantics interface
(2010-04-28)In this paper several scope asymmetries in VP ellipsis constructions in English and Spanish are studied. It is argued that an approach based on Fox' (1995 a,b) Ellipsis Scope Generalization faces numerous conceptual and ... -
Nominative and ergative languages : towards a unified of case checking
(2010-04-28)This paper offers an analysis of Nominative and Ergative Case systems in the spirit of Chomsky's (1995, 1998) Minimalist Program. In particular. Chom$ky's elimination of AGR from the inventory of admissible functional ... -
Grammatical description and corpus evidence : supposing, assuming, considering
(2010-04-28)The use of large corpora provides abundant evidence of the actual usage of grammatical structures and function words and reveals the language behaviour of native speakers. One of the principles of corpus linguistics is ... -
Chinese DE and the DE-construction
(2010-04-28)This paper analyzes the derivations of the DE construction, showing that an antecedent-free DE construction is derived by deverbalization and an antecedent-dependent DE construction is derived by ellipsis. Semantically, the ...
