A novel proposal regarding predicate-argument agreement that combines detailed empirical
investigation with rigorous theoretical discussion. In this book, Omer Preminger investigates …

Some languages showing morphological ergativity in case and/or agreement also show
ergative patterns in core syntactic domains—syntactic ergativity. The most-studied type of …

Many Mayan languages show a syntactically ergative extraction asymmetry whereby the A̅-
extraction of subjects of transitive verbs requires special verbal morphology, known as Agent …

Owing to different ideas about what counts as an anaphor subject to Condition A, two
influential but superficially incompatible versions of Condition A of binding theory have …

The article provides a uniform account of a number of locality effects, in particular, the
Subject Condition, the Adjunct Condition, Richards's tucking in effect, and the full Comp …

Individual languages in the Mayan family display either rigid VSO or alternating VOS/VSO
word orders (England 1991). In this article we review problems with previous accounts of …

Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their
distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky …

Many languages of the Mayan family restrict the extraction of transitive (ergative) subjects for
focus, wh-questions, and relativization (Ā-extraction). We follow Aissen (2017b) in labeling …

In this dissertation, I investigate the sensitivity of ϕ-agreement to features typically
associated with Ā-extraction, including those related to wh-questioning, relativization, focus …

We examine the ban on Ā‐movement of the external argument of a transitive verb that holds
in many morphologically ergative languages. We argue that the prohibition against …