Ken Hale: A Life in Language
@inproceedings{Hale2001KenHA,
title={Ken Hale: A Life in Language},
author={Ken Hale and Michael J. Kenstowicz},
year={2001}
}The essays in this collection celebrate Ken Hale's lifelong study of underdocumented languages and their implications for universal grammar. The authors report their latest research in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and phonetics. Contributors: Elena Anagnostopoulou, Noam Chomsky, Michel DeGraff, Kai von Fintel, Morris Halle, James Harris, Sabine Iatridou, Roumyana Izvorski, Michael Kenstowicz, Samuel Jay Keyser, Shigeru Miyagawa, Wayne O'Neil, David Pesetsky, Hyang-Sook Sohn…
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Ángel J. Gallego, Phase theory (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 152). Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. xii+365.
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Chomsky, Noam. 2001. Derivation by phase. In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Hale: A life in language, 1–52. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chomsky, Noam. 2008. On phases. In Robert Freidin, Carlos P. Otero…
Subjects, tense and verb movement in Germanic and Romance
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On the structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian
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The suffixed definite article in Modern Norwegian developed from a clitic in Old Norse. Such a change creates interesting theoretical questions as to how we can account for this difference in phrase…
Generative Approaches to Ergativity
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Abstract:In order to provide a framework for evaluating the generative enterprise as discussed in Chomsky’s linguistics, which spans almost four decades—what has been and what remains to be…
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It is shown that children do not overuse scrambled constructions with non-specific objects, and it is argued that the high rate of optionality in child scrambling can be better accounted for with syntax-semantics notions, contrary to discourse-pragmatic approaches to the phenomenon.
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