Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter

R D'Alessandro, I Roberts - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2010 - Springer
In this paper, we present an analysis of the “person-driven” auxiliary-selection system of one
variety of the Upper Southern Italo-Romance dialect Abruzzese, along with an account of the …

Modular pic

R d'Alessandro, T Scheer - Linguistic Inquiry, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article argues that there can only be one chunk-defining device in grammar: a theory
cannot afford to have the same work done twice, once by phases, a second time by prosodic …

What is sent to spell-out is phases, not phasal complements

Ž Bošković - Linguistica, 2016 - journals.uni-lj.si
An appealing property of the phase theory is that it is relevant to many phenomena, ie many
domain-based mechanisms are stated in terms of phases. However, although phasal …

Movement and agreement in Italian past participles and defective phases

R D'alessandro, I Roberts - Linguistic Inquiry, 2008 - direct.mit.edu
In this article, we propose a phase-based alternative to Kayne's (1989) analysis of past
participle agreement in Italian. This analysis captures the principal facts without making …

On complex predicates in Brazilian Portuguese

S Cyrino - Iberia: An International Journal of Theoretical …, 2010 - revistascientificas.us.es
I analyze Romance syntactic complex predicates (faire-infinitive causatives, periphrastic
tenses and restructuring), and propose the unification of these phenomena usually thought …

(in) direct reference in the phonology-syntax interface under phase theory: A response to “modular pic”(d'alessandro and scheer 2015)

E Bonet, LLS Cheng, LJ Downing… - Linguistic Inquiry, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although in many interface theories, the domains of phrasal phonological processes are
defined in terms of prosodic constituents, D'Alessandro and Scheer (2015) argue that their …

[PDF][PDF] Subjects, tense and verb-movement in Germanic and Romance

T Biberauer, I Roberts - Cambridge occasional papers in linguistics, 2008 - mmll.cam.ac.uk
This paper takes a closer look at the attraction properties of T. It highlights an empirically
attested distinction between rich agreement inflection, exhibited by null-subject languages …

The syntax of A′-dependencies in Bamileke Medumba

HS Keupdjio - 2020 - open.library.ubc.ca
In this dissertation, I investigate the syntax of A′-dependencies (wh-movement, focus
movement, relativization and topicalization) in Bamileke Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu …

Varieties of French and the null subject parameter

I Roberts - Parametric variation: null subjects in minimalist theory, 2010 - books.google.com
This chapter is an attempt to apply the analysis to pro presented in Roberts (chapter 1) to
French, a language whose status in relation to the Null Subject Parameter has been …

[PDF][PDF] Ellipsis by phase

Á Gallego - Ms. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2009 - academia.edu
(2) SEMantic (interface) correlates (i) propositionality (CP; cf. Chomsky 2000, Rizzi 1997,
ao)(ii) argument structure (v* P, PP; cf. Borer 2005, Hale & Keyser 2002, Pylkännen 2008 …