"Phase edge and extraction: a Tagalog case study", co-authored withĪttempt to derive both the CED and the facts about conditions onĮxtraction in languages like Tagalog to follow from the behavior of Chomskyan phases. Study", having to do with the distribution of Person-Case effects in Rackowski and I develop in "Phase edge and extraction: a Tagalog case "Person-Case Effects in Tagalog and the Nature of Long-DistanceĮxtraction" offers another kind of evidence for the theory that Andrea Language depend on how prosody is organized in that language, and on Manipulating the prosody directly which options are open to a given Positions, and that this can be achieved either by movement or by The prosody of wh-questions requires wh-phrases to share a prosodicĭomain of a certain type with the complementizers marking their scope The claim is that a universal condition on That predicts, for a given language, whether that language has "Beyond Strength and Weakness" is an attempt to develop a theory. In which PF Spellout and LF Spellout can take place at different points May be assigned to a given nominal arbitrarily many times, and The conditions on these strings of case morphemes, and discuss theirĬonsequences for Case theory more generally in particular, I argue for aĭerivation in which case features are assigned in the narrow syntax and Which allows nominals to bear multiple case morphemes. Lot of Australian languages, Lardil has many processes of caseĬoncord (for example, possessors agree in case with their possessees), "Lardil "Case Stacking" and the Structural/Inherent Caseĭistinction" discusses the conditions on case marking in Lardil. Theories of reconstruction, that such movements should not reconstruct. Locality problem, but successfully predicts, given certain types of Try to show that allowing derivations of this kind not only solves the It claims that this is accomplished by Merge of (for example)Ī subject underneath the landing site of scrambling of the object. "Can A-scrambling reorder arguments?" tries to account for theĪpparent violation of locality involved in A-scrambling of one DP pastĪnother. Paper will appear in the Proceedings of NELS 38. Subject), certain adverbs, and the stem of the verb. I argue that Maliseet VPs are in factĮntirely ordinary, containing the direct object (though not the Since Maliseet is polysynthetic, and hence of a type which has sometimesīeen argued to lack VPs entirely, or to have VPs which contain none of 
Spoken in parts of New Brunswick and Maine. VP-pronominalization) in Maliseet, an endangered Algonquian language The existence of VP-ellipsis (and, for some speakers,
"Maliseet VP-ellipsis and the syntax of polysynthesis" argues for. There must at least be a difference between verbs and nonverbs. Generally use an overt copula has led to speculation that it might beĪ language in which there are no real distinctions between lexicalĬategories the paper argues that this cannot be correct, and that In "The Tagalog Copula" I argue that Tagalog, contrary toĪppearances, actually has a copula (which is generally null, but canĪppear overtly under the right conditions). Show that extraction from CP is only possible if the CP is Agreed with Long-distance movement must stop at the edge of every phase, and also Particular, the Dinka facts make it particularly clear that South Sudan) bearing on the nature of successive-cyclic movement. 
Offers new evidence from Dinka (a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in
"Two components of long-distance extraction: successive cyclicity in. Properties of syntax, endangered languages, the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, or any of various issues in the syntax of Tagalog or other Austronesian languages. MIT thesis, What Moves Where When in Which Language?, availableĬhances are I'm working on wh-movement, crucially derivational Trees is now available in finer bookstores everywhere.
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