E. Potsdam

Publications
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Long-Distance Agreement And Topic In Tsez

M. Polinsky, E. Potsdam
Computer Science
1 August 2001

This paper presents and analyzes a unique pattern of long-distance agreement (LDA) in the Nakh-Daghestanian language Tsez, spoken in the Caucasus. Expand

Richard returns: Copy Raising and its implications

E. Potsdam, J. Runner
Economics
2001

1 Introduction In a series of CLS papers in the early 1970s (Rogers 1971, 1972, 1974a) Andy Rogers christened a transformation which he called Richard. The purpose of Richard was to derivationally… Expand

Syntactic issues in the English imperative

E. Potsdam
Computer Science
1998

This dissertation investigates long-standing problems in the syntactic analysis of the English imperative. Expand

Adverb placement: A case study in anti-symmetric syntax (review)

E. Potsdam
Mathematics
1 April 2015

Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising

M. Polinsky, E. Potsdam
Computer Science
1 August 2006

This paper presents unusual patterns in raising and control and offers a syntactic account which would validate such patterns. Expand

A Syntax for Adverbs

E. Potsdam
Computer Science
2000

In his 1972 monograph Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar, Ray Jackendoff begins the chapter on adverbs saying, “the adverb is perhaps the least studied and most maligned part of speech, . . . maltreated beyond the call of duty”. Expand

English Verbal Morphology and VP Ellipsis

E. Potsdam, E. Potsdam
2013

1his paper investigates the influences of verbal morphology on the (im)possibility of VP ellipsis (VPE) in English. VPE is a well-known process in which a VP constituent is missing under some kind of… Expand

‘Telic Entity’ as a Proto-Property of Lexical Predicates

Farrell Ackerman, J. Moore, +11 authors ehitasin endale suvilat
Computer Science
1999

Malagasy Backward Object Control

E. Potsdam
Psychology
1 December 2009

Backward control is an obligatory interpretational dependency between an overt controller and a nonovert controllee in which the controllee is structurally superior to the controller: <i>Meg… Expand

More concealed pseudoclefts in Malagasy and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis

E. Potsdam
Philosophy
1 December 2006

Cheng's Clausal Typing Hypothesis (Cheng, L., 1997. On the Typology of Wh-Questions. Garland, New York) predicts that no language should have constituent questions using both wh-in-situ and… Expand

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