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The Nature and Structure of Reflexive Verb Constructions

Acta Linguistica Asiatica
Based on a summary of the features of reflexive verb constructions (ReVCs), this paper proposes that the internal structure of reflexive verb constructions is [VP Spec[V` V R]].
Yongzhong Yang
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Culmination phenomena across languages

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, September/October 2024.
Abstract This article examines culmination phenomena from a cross‐linguistic perspective. It provides an overview of various (non‐)culmination readings that sentences in different languages may receive in light of much prior literature on this topic, especially from the past 2 decades.
Éva Kardos
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Just pair‐merge

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 527-549, September 2024.
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
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Noncanonical Obligatory Control

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract Intensive research on Obligatory Control (OC) in the past 2 decades has revealed a rich crosslinguistic terrain of deviations from the classical format. Five types of noncanonical OC are surveyed here: Finite control, controlled overt pronouns, partial control, proxy control and crossed control.
Idan Landau
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.
Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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Patterns of number (dis)agreement in Pyrenean varieties

Isogloss
This paper examines number agreement patterns in unaccusative constructions within Pyrenean varieties, focusing on Spanish spoken in the Aragon area and North-Western Catalan.
Ángel J. Gallego
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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 85-122, March 2024.
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
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Unaccusativity, morphologicaly marked aspect and the internal structure of -ač nouns

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2004
The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of Croatian agentive nouns ending in the suffix -ač according to the principles of Distributed Morphology.
Matea Birtić
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A case study in underspecification of UG: External Pair Merge of v and T

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 123-147, March 2024.
Abstract Previous works have explored the options of Pair Merging R and v as well as T and C, respectively, yielding R‐v and T‐C with various consequences. This paper proposes that v and T can yield the complex head v‐T, an amalgam formed by external Pair Merge.
Andreas Blümel
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Some remarks on Romanian reflexive verbs derived by the prefix "în"

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
The paper discusses a small group of Romanian reflexive verbs, denominals derived by means of the prefix în, as well as a group of transitive verbs which are reflexivized. Their behaviour will be briefly considered. A search on the Internet has also been
Veronica Tomescu
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