Published: 27/08/23

Data-driven analyses of ellipsis (mis)matches

Published: 01/08/23

This volume explores the interplay of lexical and functional morphemes in form and meaning compositions under neoconstructionist perspective(s). It investigates which types of content each morpheme class is able to encode, how they interact, and whether they are subject to the same post-syntactic operations, both at PF and LF.

Published: 06/04/23

On the nature of agents

Published: 11/10/22

This collection explores change of state expressions across different languages from morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic perspectives, taking into account several theoretical and experimental approaches. Both morphosyntactically simple as well as complex expressions (e.g. resultative constructions) are investigated with respect to their event and argument structure, compositionality, aspect, telicity, scalarity, culminativity, and implicatures.

Published: 15/02/22

The volume comprises a collection of papers on argument structure and argument structure alternations aimed at promoting dialogue between the proponents of derivational and non-derivational accounts of various convictions through the examination of novel as well as classic arguments in the context of our present day understanding of these phenomena.

Published: 19/10/21

Both in traditional grammars and in contemporary formal approaches, theme vowels are typically analyzed as syntactically and semantically empty components of verb morphology. The opposing view holds that they contribute to syntactico-semantic composition. The articles in this volume examine both positions, drawing on data from Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.

Published: 30/09/21

With a variety of languages and methodologies, the contributions of the collection are put together to provide a body of state-of-the-art research on multivaluation and deepen our understanding of issues including the syntax of constructions with multivaluation, processes that trigger multivaluation effects, and how features get resolved on a multi-valued agreement target.

Published: 19/09/21

This Special Collection presents selected papers from the 44th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium held online on 15-17 April 2021.

Published: 15/09/21

This collection investigates the syntax and semantics of allocutive and honorific markers through detailed analyses of specific languages and typological comparison of multiple languages. Thus, it leads to a deeper understanding of how the relation between speaker and addressee (allocutivity) and speaker/addressee and referent (honorificity) is encoded in grammar.

Published: 11/01/21

Measurement structures with exact proportions allow seemingly non-conservative interpretations (e.g. We hired 70% students, meaning 70% of hirees were students). Languages vary in how they distinguish between conservative (We hired 70% of the students) and non-conservative interpretations. We explore such variation and its repercussions for the syntax-semantics of measurement.

Published: 01/12/20

This Special Collection presents selected papers from the 43rd Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium held online on 8-20 April 2020 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Published: 22/06/20

The collection comprises 10 articles by leading scholars on the grammar of agreement and reference. These articles investigate grammatical phenomena ranging from argument- and allocutive-agreement to switch- and co-reference, variable-binding and reflexivity, in a diverse array of languages, and discuss their consequences for their modelling in syntax and its interfaces.

Published: 15/04/20

Clause-embedding predicates can often only combine with certain types of clauses. For instance, “think” takes declarative complements but not interrogative complements. Recently, it has been proposed that such selectional restrictions may be meaning-driven. This special collection brings together state-of-the-art developments in this research area.

Published: 04/03/20

This special collection focuses on the L1 acquisition of key structural and interpretive properties of the finely articulated functional spine of the clause as developed in cartographic studies (Cinque & Rizzi 2010). Special attention is given to the acquisition of the left periphery.

Published: 13/09/19

This Special Collection presents selected papers from the 42nd Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) Colloquium held at the University of Oslo on 7-11 May, 2019.

Published: 28/06/19

This collection takes an empirical perspective on the theory of definiteness and referentiality. It contributes experimental and corpus-based research, synchronic and diachronic, and research on lesser-studied languages or constructions. The topics include the semantics of definite and demonstrative descriptions, and their correspondents in articleless languages, such as bare nominals.

Guest editors: Carla Bombi and Radek Šimík

Published: 27/06/19

This collection brings together recent work on the morphosyntax and phonology of different types of topics and foci, emphasizing the roles played by contrast and the given-new distinction when combined with the well-known concepts of topic and focus, addressing the finer details of these notions as well as possible effects of interactions.

Guest editors: Johannes Mursell & Sophie Repp

Published: 19/06/19

Does the DP-projection dominate the NP or does the latter dominate the determiner system? This simple question has not received a conclusive answer. The DP- vs. NP-debate remains unresolved, despite the decades-long success of the DP-hypothesis. This Special Collection brings to the fore novel conceptual and empirical arguments.

Guest editors: Andreas Blümel & Anke Holler

Published: 28/12/18

This Special Collection investigates the realization and interpretation of subject anaphoric devices in different populations of native and near-native speakers of null and non-null subject languages. Subtle differences beyond the null/ non-null divide and relevant factors and cues are singled out through the use of different experimental techniques.

Guest Editors: Elisa Di Domenico & Simona Matteini

Published: 17/10/18

In many languages of the world, the extraction (e.g. questioning or relativization) of subjects behaves differently from that of non-subject arguments. The papers in this collection contribute to our understanding of the cross-linguistic landscape of subject extraction asymmetries, their theory, and implications.

Guest Editor: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

Published: 15/10/18

Information Structure (IS) is claimed to impact word-order change. Solid empirical documentation on the relation between IS and word-order change is presented in this issue with reference to Germanic and Romance. The issue thus clarifies methodological and conceptual issues and articulates interface conditions between IS and syntactic change.

Guest Editor: Pierre Larrivee

Published: 11/09/18

This collection brings together theoretical results on various elliptical phenomena (VP Ellipsis, Sluicing, Gapping, RNR, Fragment answers) in various languages (French, English, Spanish, Saudi Arabic), with special emphasis on solid empirical data, specifically obtained through experimentation (acceptability and production experiments, in particular).

Guest Editors: Anne Abeille, Philip Miller and Jeffrey T. Runner

Published: 08/08/18

This conference was characterized by a large number of presentations on morphosyntax and allomorphy, and returned to previous GLOW traditions of a strong showing in phonology and morphophonology. The collection is a selection of particularly strong papers from that conference, expanded and further honed by the conference audience itself and the peer review process.

Guest Editors: Veronika Hegedus & Gillian Ramchand

Published: 07/08/18

This volume explores what the spatial distribution of grammatical properties in linguistic atlases (and related tools) can tell us about the way linguistic competence is organized in the mind of speakers--that is, about their I-languages.

Guest Editors: Ricardo Etxepare & Ángel J. Gallego

Published: 26/07/18

Rhotics display a wide array of phonetic variation, both across and within languages, and no consensus has been reached as to a single phonetic property which would define the class. This special collection explores, from a variety of theoretical viewpoints and languages, including typology, some of the characteristics of rhotics and whether the class of rhotics can be uniquely defined by its phonological properties, and the consequences such a definition has for the phonetics-phonology interface.

Guest Editors: Adèle Jatteau and Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho

Published: 17/07/18

These papers involve analytic challenges in terms of existing models of agreement, case, and their morphological realization, and offer new solutions from a rich panorama of empirical studies.

Guest Editors: Andrew Nevins and Jana Willer-Gold

Published: 17/05/18

Dispositions differ from other properties like color or shape, in that they are modal: the actual behavior of a vase does not determine its fragility, rather, a vase is fragile if and only if it is disposed to shutter when struck. This issue is a one-stop resource for researchers interested in the analysis of linguistic descriptions of dispositional properties.

Guest Editors: Tillmann Pross, Fabienne Martin, Marcel Pitteroff

Published: 14/05/18

This SC provides new approaches and analyses about different types of unergatives, as well as data from typologically unrelated languages. The papers included discuss the syntactic structure of unergative verbs, the nature of their subject, their semantics, several matters related to their typological variation, and also their processing effects.

Published: 20/04/18

Although the distinction between descriptive and metalinguistic negation is well established, there is no general agreement on what triggers metalinguistic negation, how it is processed by the addressee, or what its scope is. The articles of this Special Collection offer a fine-grained analysis of metalinguistic negation at the syntax, semantics and pragmatics interfaces from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

Guest editors: Cristina Grisot & Joanna Blochowiak

Published: 12/04/18

This collection addresses the form, meaning and use of various kinds of participles (beyond past passive participles) in various kinds of constructions (also beyond passive and perfect), both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective, to explore the question as to what the proper characterization of participles is in general.

Guest Editors: Olga Borik and Berit Gehrke

Published: 09/02/18

This special collection brings together six studies using the same paradigm to investigate the interpretation of mass-count across languages and populations. Moreover, it includes contributions by Jeff Lidz, who discusses the implications of adult data for acquisition, and by David Barner and Alan Bale, who examine the paradigm itself.

Guest Editors: Jing Lin, Aviya Hacohen, and Jeannette Schaeffer

Published: 29/11/17

A growing body of research has shown that adverbial clauses have a much more intricate syntax than usually acknowledged. This Special Collection addresses various themes relating to the internal and the external syntax of adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective.

Guest Editors: Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Werner Frey, Andreas Pankau

Published: 04/10/17

The papers in this collection consider the role of individual differences in the actuation and spread of sound change. They explore how individual differences relate to community patterns; how they impact variation; and the degree to which they affect the initiation, phonologization, and propagation of change.

Guest Editors: James Kirby, Lauren Hall-Lew, & Patrick Honeybone

Published: 15/05/17

If morphology is syntactic, morpho-phonology must also be syntactic: morpho-phonological effects must follow from the interaction of phonological regularities and morpho-syntactic structures. The papers in this volume explore how exactly phonological form reflects syntactic structure, and present new ways to conceptualize and formalize inter-modular relations.

Guest Editor: Noam Faust

Published: 26/04/17

These papers determine (i) the locus of interpretation of quantificational dependencies; (ii) the differences between child and adult grammar with respect to scope interpretation; (iii) whether configurational approaches of multi-factor approaches to QS have a bigger explanatory power; (iv) whether scopal heads are independent lexical items generating specific quantificational projections or whether they are "projections" of features inherent in the nominal.

Guest Editors: Urtzi Etxeberria & Aritz Irurtzun

Published: 18/04/17

Quantification is everywhere in grammar, from syntax to pragmatics. Its acquisition has surprises: from ‘spreading’ (every applies both to dog and bone in Every dog has a bone) to implicature failure (some = not all) and distributivity (all vs. each). This volume offers fresh methodological and theoretical angles on the acquisition path for quantification, based on evidence from various languages

Guest Editor: Magda Oiry

Published: 28/02/17

This special issue brings together current work situated at the crossroads of research on usage-based theoretical linguistics, variationist linguistics, and cognitive sociolinguistics to explore the scope and limits of grammatical variation among and within language users from a comparative, probabilistic perspective.

Guest editors: Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Melanie Röthlisberger, Benedikt Heller

Published: 24/02/17

The syntax-prosody interface is a complex area of study, drawing on insights from phonetics, phonology, syntax, and information structure. The papers in this collection examine the relationship between prosodic and syntactic constituency through the lens of a diverse range of languages, including Bàsàá, Blackfoot, Gela, Hungarian, Samoan, Serbian, and Tagalog.

Guest Editors: Lauren Clemens & Emily Elfner

Published: 24/02/17

Suspended Affixation (SA) refers to a property of coordination found primarily in head-final and agglutinative languages: the right-peripheral affix on the second conjunct also has scope over the first conjunct. The phenomenon has particular relevance for a proper understanding of the interface between morphology, syntax, and phonology.

Guest editors: Kunio Nishiyama & James Yoon

Published: 15/12/16

Morphological paradigms can be ordered so as to observe the *ABA restriction, i.e. such that only contiguous cells in a paradigm are syncretic. Syncretisms thus reveal a hierarchy in paradigms, which is in turn accounted for in terms of a hierarchy of underlying features. Consequently, syncretisms can be used as a tool for the diagnosis of feature structures.

Guest Editors: Pavel Caha & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

Published: 06/12/16

The Contrastivist Hypothesis states that phonology only operates on features required to express lexical contrasts. The existence of ‘marginal’ contrasts challenges the contrastivist approach. This collection seeks to clarify the relevant notion of ‘contrast’ and define the relationship between the Contrastivist Hypothesis and other factors shaping observable phonological patterns.

Guest Editors: Daniel Currie Hall & Pavel Iosad

Published: 01/11/16

Perspective taking is not only a central notion in human cognition, but also interacts with many linguistic expressions and structures. This special collection brings together theoretical and experimental approaches to perspective taking in language as well as contributions on the relation between the cognitive and the linguistic notion.

Guest Editors: Stefan Hinterwimmer & Petra B. Schumacher

Published: 27/10/16

Focus concord constructions consist of a single finite clause in which the focused constituent is marked with a particle, and its scope is indicated by a non-root inflection on the predicate. This special collection explores the syntactic, semantic, and morphological characteristics of focus concord from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Guest Editors: Edith Aldridge, Hideki Kishimoto, Iku Nagasaki, Satoshi Kinsui

Published: 10/10/16

Headedness is a recent tool in phonological analyses. This Special Collection provides the first state-of-the-art overview, establishing its definition, its role in representations, and its underpinnings. Distinct approaches to headedness can be identified: structural configuration vs. diacritic, multiple heads vs. maximally one, and emergence from phonetics vs. homology to syntax.

Guest Editor: Shanti Ulfsbjorninn

Published: 16/09/16

Partitives are a family of constructions which make reference to a subpart of a previously mentioned set or entity. In this Special Collection, morphosyntactic and semantic aspects of partitives and their structural representation are explored in a wide variety of languages, including Dutch, French, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish.

Guest Editors: Michelangelo Falco & Roberto Zamparelli

Published: 09/09/16

Internally-headed relative clauses are attested in various languages in different language families and pose important challenges for the theory of the syntax-semantics interface. This Special Collection consists of papers that address various issues from a diverse range of languages and advances our understanding of universals and variations in internally-headed relative clauses.

Guest Editor: Ken Hiraiwa

Published: 27/07/16

This Special Collection explores the question to what extent formal features (FFs) can be replaced with more principled explanations and where, if at all, they may be indispensable. The Collection is based on the workshop “What drives syntactic computation? Alternatives to formal features,” held as part of the March 2015 Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society at the University of Leipzig.

Guest Editors: Dennis Ott & Radek Šimík

Published: 20/06/16

Palatalization is widely attested in the world’s languages and varies immensely in its phonological and morphological conditions and its phonetic implementation. This special collection presents a selection of papers investigating palatalization patterns in a range of languages from various methodological and theoretic vantage points to shed new light on the issue.

Guest Editors: Martin Krämer & Olga Urek