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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
wiley   +1 more source

Reassessing pseudosluicing in Austronesian

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract Pseudosluicing diagnostics have played an important role in wider debates about sluicing. Sluicing is the term used to describe the deletion of an embedded clausal constituent, which leaves only a wh‐phrase overt. Genuine sluicing requires syntactic or semantic identity between the sluiced clause and its antecedent, contrasting with ...
John Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

A unified approach to parasitic gap and across‐the‐board constructions: Evidence based on Mandarin Chinese

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the lack of consensus on English facts, this study demonstrates that both parasitic gap (PG) and across‐the‐board (ATB) constructions in Mandarin Chinese exhibit parallel effects in variable binding reconstruction, while also displaying asymmetries in gap licensing categories.
Jen Ting
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of an early educational protocol on the oral language of children born preterm exhibiting phonological fragility: a multicenter randomized clinical trial. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Charollais A   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Just pair‐merge

open access: yesSyntax, EarlyView.
Abstract Two structure‐building operations are currently posited in minimalist theory: an operation forming sets (set merge), and an operation forming ordered pairs (pair‐merge). I argue that pair‐merge is sufficient to generate syntactic relations, so set merge, also called simple merge, should be eliminated from syntactic theory on grounds of ...
Ken Safir
wiley   +1 more source

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