40 search results for “comparative syntax” in the Public website
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The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax
Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of the structure of building blocks in natural language.
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The Syntax of Being Different: How Human Language Expresses Otherness
This PhD project investigates what the universal and variable morphosyntactic properties of linguistic expressions of otherness are and how they can be modelled theoretically.
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Isaac WeiFaculty of Humanities
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Anikó LiptákFaculty of Humanities
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Longming ShichuanFaculty of Humanities
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Irina MorozovaFaculty of Humanities
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The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages
The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.
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Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in Indirect A'-Dependencies
This dissertation investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Zurich German and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The analysis is carried out within the Principles & Parameters framework.
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Yes/no question-marking in Italian dialects - A typological, theoretical and experimental approach
This dissertation provides an account of polar questions in Italian dialects from a typological, theoretical and empirical perspective.
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Jenneke van der WalFaculty of Humanities
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Martin KroonFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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The internal and external syntax of genoeg ('enough')
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Tunen syntax within a structural typology of Aux-O-V word orders
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Splitting the imperative: what prohibitives tell us about the morpho-syntax of imperatives and negation
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Comparing apples and oranges: What grinding and portioning can tell us about gender and atomicity
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Lecture by George Walkden
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The DP-Internal Origin of Datives
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An experimental investigation of syntactic and discourse-processing claims about filler-gap dependencies: Adjunct islands and parasitic gaps
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Towards a label-less grammar: Eradicating labels from the grammar
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
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Discourse sensitivity in argument realization
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Dissecting habituality: The Croatian know and its kin
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The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition
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Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish
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Four types of Internal Merge and the locus of Linearization
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Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based Approach
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Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited
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Size/flavor correlations in the grammar of attitudes and modals
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Why does water have a blue colour? Modification of Nouns and the Possession of Properties
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On the source of polarity (in)sensitivity in the domain of degree modifiers
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The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion
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Counterfactuality in typological perspective: Irrealis markers, blocking effects, and theoretical implications
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Hypothetical comparison clauses in Dutch dialects
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Left node not raising: Word part ellipsis revisited
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Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questions
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Head-finality, Predicate Fronting and Spell-out Domains
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…