Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically,
the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the position of those verbs. She surveys …

Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing presents the most comprehensive study to date
of the starting point of second language acquisition. Its focus is on the language input that …

This paper addresses a number of issues surrounding the triggering of negative polarity
items, in particular matters of scope and c-command. It is argued that triggering is sensitive …

Plautus, the famous Roman comedist, once said that no-one on his own is ever wise
enough. And I think he was right. If it had not been for all the help-linguistic and non …

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering
and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It …

This may seem hardly surprising, since the literature on polarity items assigns a central role
to notions of scalarity in the semantic analysis of polarity sensitivity (cf. eg Fauconnier …

This thesis discusses diachronic developments in the expression of negation in Arabic and
other Afro-Asiatic languages, focussing in particular on the set of changes known as …

Sentence and text comprehension is known to be difficult for orally trained individuals with
hearing impairment. This study explored the comprehension of several syntactic structures …

This review essay aims to present a range of syntactic facts from Arabic dialects as
discussed in The Syntax of Arabic, provide an evaluative discussion of the authors' analyses …

This books studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. It
outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential …