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Wh-clitic-doubling and wh-Cliticisation
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
This article explores a pervasive phenomenon in Berber whereby the extraction of dative arguments (of verbs, nouns and prepositions) gives rise to two occurrences of wh. One is a wh-word located in Spec,C and the other ...
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An intervention account of the distribution of main clause phenomena: Evidence from ellipsis
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
Based on an examination of some asymmetries between VP ellipsis and VP fronting, this paper argues for an intervention approach and against a truncation approach to the distribution of main clause phenomena in adverbial ...
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Language Processing Evidence for Linguistic Structure
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
This article illustrates how data from language processing experiments might bear on theoretical linguistic issues and controversies. Based on the results from real-time processing studies of subject raising vs. subject ...
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Deriving the Cartography of the Japanese Right Periphery: The Case of Sentence-Final Discourse Particles
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
The cartographic structure of the Japanese right periphery has been investigated extensively over recent years. (See, for example, Inoue 2007, Ueda 2007, Saito 2009, Endo 2010, and the references cited there.) This paper ...
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Don't Move!
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
All versions of Transformational Grammar assume that movement is a central feature of the syntax of human languages. However, frameworks which make no use of movement processes have existed for thirty years, and there ...
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Phase Edges, Quantifier Float and the Nature of (Micro-) Variation
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
This paper considers quantifier float off wh-elements in varieties of West Ulster English. It establishes that there are several sub-dialects of West Ulster English and not just the single variety described by ...
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Spanish subjects can be subjects: Acquisitional and empirical evidence
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
The paper provides novel converging acquisitional and empirical evidence from Spanish in support of the hypothesis that preverbal subjects in Spanish can, but need not, be left-dislocated constituents in the CP layer; they ...
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Universal Numeric Quantifiers in Japanese
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
This paper examines a subtype of floating quantifiers, in which a universal quantifier along with a numeral appear at a distance from their nominal associate. According to Cirillo (2010), this floating universal numeric ...
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On the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis and its (In)accurate Predictions
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
The Lexical Integrity Hypothesis (LIH) holds that lexical items are syntactic atoms, which implies that neither their segments nor their semantic components are accessible to syntax. LIH is, thus, a double-faced ...
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Determiners and relative clauses
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2012)
In the present paper, I consider first the behaviour of singular count nouns, showing that, in the limited set of contexts in which they are found, a specific kind of modification is in many cases necessary. The modification ...