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Linguistics
Get PDFContains research objectives and reports on two research project.National Institute of Mental Health (Grant 5 P01 MH-13390-04
Linguistics
Get PDFContains reports on five research projects.National Institute of Mental Health (Grant 5 PO1 MH-13390-04
Constraining second language word order optionality: scrambling in advanced English-German and Japanese-German interlanguage
Full text linkInput, triggering and poverty of the stimulus in the second language acquisition of Japanese passives
Full text linkInfinitive Wh-relatives in romance : consequences for the truncation-versus-intervention debate
Get PDFRomance clitic left dislocation is widespread across all kinds of nonroot contexts, but it is forbidden in infinitive wh-relatives. This article investigates the extent and nature of this restriction and the consequences it raises for the truncation and intervention analyses of the left periphery of embedded sentences. We will show that current proposals cannot account for the whole gamut of data. In consequence, we will propose that infinitive wh-relatives display a maximally syncretic left periphery, whereas infinitive wh-interrogatives have a full-fledged left periphery, crucially involving ForceP, because they are selected by a higher predicate. This crucial difference between infinitive relatives and interrogatives will also be shown to be consistent with the existence of specialized complementizers for the former but not the latte
