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Functional structure in the noun phrase: revisiting Hebrew nominals
(Ubiquity Press, 2020-07-02)This paper revisits Ritter’s (1991) findings concerning Hebrew nominals in light of recent arguments that nominal phrases are headed by the noun itself (rather than enclosed in functional structure), and shows that the ... -
Functional structure in the noun phrase: revisiting Hebrew nominals
(Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (Ubiquity Press), 2020-05-12)This paper revisits Ritter’s (1991) findings concerning Hebrew nominals in light of recent arguments that nominal phrases are headed by the noun itself (rather than enclosed in functional structure), and shows that the ... -
The Agreement Theta Generalization
(Ubiquity Press, 2019-08-29)In this paper, we propose a new generalization concerning the structural relationship between a head that agrees with a DP in φ-features and the predicate that assigns the (first) thematic role to that DP: the Agreement ... -
What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality
(Ubiquity Press, 2019-01-24)Based on the cross- and intra-linguistic distribution of Person Case Constraint (PCC) effects, this paper shows that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features (person, number, gender/noun-class) which systematically lacks a ... -
Prosodic Structure as a Parallel to Musical Structure
(2015)What structural properties do language and music share? Although early speculation identified a wide variety of possibilities, the literature has largely focused on the parallels between musical structure and syntactic ...