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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

On the Syntactic Status of Implicit Arguments in UG: Greek as a Case Study (Accepted WCCFL 41 2023 Abstract)

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 The abstract below is a joint effort by our team, including (in alphabetical order): Niko Angelopoulos, Chris Collins, Dimitris Micheliouda...
Friday, February 24, 2023

The Distribution of Particles in Quotative Inversion (Collins 2003)

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In this paper , I revisit the analysis of Quotative Inversion (QI) presented in Collins (1997) (see also Collins and Branigan (1997), and se...
Friday, February 17, 2023

Head-Raising from Collins 2015 (Grammatical Analysis II)

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 Here is a handout on the head-raising analysis of relative clauses, based on Collins 2015. It just gives the tree diagram for a simple exam...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Internet Searches as a Tool in Syntactic Research (second version)

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Motivation Collins and Postal (2012, 2014) contain lots of data obtained from Internet searches. Such data is also cited extensively in chap...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

The Use of the Internet as a Natural Language Corpus in Syntactic Research

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Motivation Collins and Postal (2012, 2014) contain a large amount of data obtained from Internet searches. Similarly, such data is cited ext...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

An Asymmetry in Ellipsis and the Structure of UG

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There are various processes by which the phonetic form of a word or a phrase is not pronounced (e.g., ellipsis under identity with an antece...
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Thursday, December 29, 2022

The Sleeping Child

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Chomsky 1957 discusses the following paradigm contrasting adjectives like interesting and present participles like sleeping (see pages 73-75...