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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 169-202, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so‐called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis‐à‐vis middle aorist ...
Eystein Dahl, Liana Tronci
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A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire–infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 183-222, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is “transitive.” We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree.
Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
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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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Agree as information transmission over dependencies
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 466-507, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In contemporary Minimalism agreement is the result of a syntactic operation. In contrast to Merge, Agree does not build structure, its role being to transmit morphological features from one head to another. We provide an alternative perspective on agreement in a Minimalist idiom, one that cuts the ontological pie in a different way. Syntax has
Marina Ermolaeva, Gregory M. Kobele
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Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci, 2015 © 2014 The Authors. WIREs Cognitive Science published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
Adger D.
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Person matters in impersonality
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 147-187, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, the impersonal involves a particular kind of Voice projection that we term ...
Ane Berro, Ane Odria, Beatriz Fernández
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How can a language have double-passives but lack antipassives?
Glossa, 2022 Passivization in Turkish may target both internal and external argument positions, for passives of unaccusatives, unergatives and transitives are possible in the language.
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Spanish Anticausative Inherent Reciprocals and Syntactic Reciprocals with Se*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 470-510, December 2021., 2021 Abstract Within the debate about the heterogeneity of unaccusative structures, the aim of this paper is to distinguish two types of Spanish marked anticausative inherent reciprocals (AIRs) from other syntactic reciprocals (SRs) with se. Several diagnostics show that AIRs such as mezclarse ‘get mixed’ are symmetric, unaccusative, telic, and show ...
Lucía Quintana Hernández
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Syntax, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 376-416, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explores the syntax of radically truncated clauses in colloquial Hungarian. I argue that radically truncated clauses arise when, in informal speech situations and under time pressure, the derivation is terminated prematurely, at the VP level, and the bare VP (lacking any of the higher functional projections) is sent to spellout ...
Tamás Halm
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Voice and Little v and VO–OV Word‐Order Variation in Chinese Languages
Syntax, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 44-77, March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article addresses some issues related to Voice and little v. It does so by discussing and analyzing the variation that exists in the Chinese language family with respect to object placement (VO versus OV). It turns out that this variation can be accounted for straightforwardly as long as we assume, first, that Voice and v are sometimes ...
Rint Sybesma
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