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Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 223-249, June 2023., 2023 Abstract It was first observed over a decade ago that the presence of experiencers leads to degradation in English tough movement. In the literature, this has been linked to either syntactic or semantic intervention. I will show that a crucial piece of data has been ignored in this debate, the possibility of extracting the tough adjective without the ...
Martin Salzmann
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Constructions of speech and thought representation
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 14, Issue 2, March/April 2023., 2023 A lot of our talk is about talk and thought, and linguists study the ways language has devised to provide access to the contents of speech and thought, real or fictive. (Image: detail of work by Liz Craft, “Mirror Cells” exhibition, 2016, Whitney Museum of American Art.) Abstract A lot of what humans communicate about concerns cognitive contents of ...
Lieven Vandelanotte
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External merge in spec,CP: Complementizers projecting an argument
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 85-105, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The standard assumption that spec,CP is always an A′ position has been questioned for several languages where embedded C heads are involved in agreement and case assignment; however, the idea that no XP can be introduced in spec,CP by external merge has remained unchallenged.
Irina Burukina
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Description of Logophors in Ibibio [PDF]
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 This paper concerns the description of logophors in Ibibio, a Lower-Cross language spoken in southern Nigeria. Logophors are grammatical forms used in reference to the person in a sentence whose point of view is being reported (Clements 1975). In Ibibio, these appear as both individual pronouns as well as agreement marking on the embedded tense and ...
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Logophoricity and shifts of perspective [PDF]
Functions of Language, 2020 AbstractThis study presents a typology of existing approaches to logophoricity and discusses problems the different approaches face. It addresses, in particular, perspective-based accounts describing constructions with logophoric pronouns in terms of their intermediate position on the direct-indirect continuum (Evans 2013), and lexical accounts ...
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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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The Logophoric Complementizer in Laz
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2015 This study investigates the two phenomena associated with the logophoric complementizer in Laz which is used to introduce the propositional complements of speech and thought predicates, namely the allomorphy based on the person and number features of the matrix subject and the indexical shifting observed for the pronominal elements in the embedded ...
DEMİROK, Ömer Faruk, ÖZTÜRK, Balkız
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Satisfying the composite probe on the Topic head in Mandarin Chinese
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 91-140, April 2025.Abstract This paper investigates two puzzles concerning gapped topicalization in Chinese: (i) DPs are restricted from undergoing multiple gapped topicalization via Agree and movement, while prepositional phrases do not face this limitation; (ii) DP gapped topicalization, typically viewed as an instance of Ā‐movement, is able to feed anaphoric binding ...
C.‐T. Tim Chou
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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