Introduction

The papers contained in this special issue of Linguistica atlantica were presented at the sixth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA), hosted by the Department of Linguistics of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, from 23-25 March, 2001. The organizers-Phil Branigan, Carrie Dyck, and Marguerite MacKenzie-acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant #646-2000-009

Subjects and complementizers

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-129).by Philip Branigan.Ph.D

A syntax for semantic incorporation: generating low-scope indefinite objects in Inuktitut

The range of scope readings for Inuktitut nominal expressions appears superficially to depend on the verbal morpho-syntax, with noun incorporation and antipassive inflection both playing a role. A new model is presented in which the syntactic role played by agreement features in Case theory is unified with the absence of a choice functional D in the semantic interpretation. For both, a phase-level D-deletion operation ensures the correct results. The model is shown to account for the scopal properties of nominals in a range of contexts larger than the literature typically considers, including incorporation of predicational, locational, and locative nouns, and non-modalis-marked arguments of non-antipassive verbs

The syntax of (complex) numerals in Arabic

Word order, case assignment, and agreement for gender and number are realised with remarkable complexity in the Arabic numeral system. This paper examines the internal morphological structure of simplex, compound, and complex numerals. We identify a recurrent pattern found both inside complex numerals and in the structural relations between numeral and the nouns they quantify. The structures uncovered then allow for more principled accounts of the superficial morphosyntactic complexities. The analysis suggests that DP contains a single Num head, but that Num can express both additive and multiplicative arithmetic operations