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Zero Syntax: Experiencers and Cascades

The lexicon - preliminaries, zero syntax linking problems with experiencer predicates - linking, an unaccusative solution to the experiencer-object problem, verbal passivization, athematic subjects -…
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Phrasal Movement and Its Kin

This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations. Besides overt phasal…
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How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading

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From different sources of evidence, two inescapable conclusions emerge: Mastering the alphabetic principle is essential to becoming proficient in the skill of reading, and methods that teach this principle directly are more effective than those that do not.
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The Syntax of Valuation and the Interpretability of Features

In this paper, we will present a particular proposal about the nature of agreement processes and the syntax of its output. Our proposal builds on current work, but departs from existing research in a…
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Paths and categories

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1983.

Cyclic Linearization of Syntactic Structure

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The cyclic linearization proposal makes predictions that cross-cut the details of particular syntactic configurations, and argues that ‘‘cross-construction’’ consistency of this sort is in fact found.
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T-to-C Movement: Causes and Consequences

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Some optimality principles of sentence pronunciation

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This chapter discusses the interface between syntactic structure (including movement) and semantic interpretation, and the laws that govern the assignment of words to more than one position in hierarchical syntactic structures.
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Russian Case Morphology and the Syntactic Categories

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This book argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case, and proposes instead that the case categories are just part-of-speech features copied as morphology from head to dependent as syntactic structure is built.
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The Maturation of Grammatical Principles: Evidence from Russian Unaccusatives

This article tests the hypothesis that young children have a maturational difficulty with A-chain formation that makes them unable to represent unaccusative verbs in an adultlike fashion. We report…
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