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Reduced Structure In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

General Number And The Structure Of Dp, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Malagasy Quantifiers, Ileana Paul, Rita Hanitramalala

Ileana Paul

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Sluicing Without Wh-Movement In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam

Ileana Paul

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Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Subjects: Grammatical Relations, Grammatical Functions And Functional Categories, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper presents an overview of how the notion of “subject” has been defined in linguistic theory. Although the term developed out of Artistotelian logic, the use has been narrowed to refer to the grammatical relation (or function). Over the past fifty years, the definition of subject and its universality has been the source of much debate. Broadly Chomskian approaches claim that grammatical relations such as subject are not primitives of the grammar and can be derived from phrase structure. As such, testing for the subject involves constituency tests. Other approaches (Relational Grammar, Lexical-Function Grammar) posit grammatical relations as primitives …

Specification And Inversion: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper analyzes specificational sentences in Malagasy and shows that such sentences involve obligatory inversion, marked by the topic particle dia. I argue that the topicalized element is a small clause predicate that inverts with its subject. Two competing analyses of this inversion are compared and contrasted. I conclude with a brief comparison of Malagasy and Tagalog.

External Possession Meets Bare Nouns In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper examines apparent noun incorporation in Malagasy that is the result of external possession (possessor raising). It is shown that such incorporation is not derived via head movement or via compounding. Instead, it is argued that this is an instance of pseudo noun incorporation (Massam, 2001): the possessum is merged as an NP sister to the predicate. As for the structure of external possession, a non-movement analysis is proposed: the apparent possessor is generated as the specifier of a null possessive head and binds an empty argument position within the possessum. The resulting structure and meaning are shown to …

Bare Nouns, Incorporation, And Scope, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Determiners: Universals And Variation, Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko

Ileana Paul

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Determiners: Universals And Variation, Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul, Martina Wiltschko

Ileana Paul

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On The Topic Of Pseudoclefts, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper presents arguments in favor of a pseudocleft analysis of a certain class of sentences in Malagasy, despite the lack of an overt wh-element. It is shown that voice morphology on the verb creates an operator-variable relationship much like the one created by wh-movement in free relatives in English and other languages. The bulk of the paper argues in favor of an inversion analysis of specificational pseudoclefts in Malagasy: a predicate DP is fronted to a topic position from within a small clause constituent. Moreover, it is shown that the same inversion occurs in equative and specificational sentences in …

How To Sluice In The Wh-In-Situ Language Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Eric Potsdam

Ileana Paul

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La Syntaxe, La Morphologie Et La Phonologie De La Réduction Dans Les Titres, Ivan Chow, Volha Kharytonava, Mikalai Kliashchuk, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

Le présent article examine le cas de la réduction dans les titres de journaux avec les données de plusieurs langues. Nous constatons qu’il existe plusieurs types de réduction: la réduction syntaxique, morphophonologique, et la réduction phonétique. Nous faisons un survol des différents types et nous laissons pour la recherche future une analyse plus détaillée des structures.

Great Coffee, That Maxwell House!, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Missing Topics In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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The Semantics Of Incorporation: From Argument Structure To Discourse Transparency, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Ergativity In Austronesian Languages, Ileana Paul, Lisa Travis

Ileana Paul

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Disjunction In Free Choice And Polarity In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Bare Nouns In The Typology Of Dps, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Two Types Of Non-Noun-Incorporation, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Multiple Topics: Evidence From Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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The Handbook Of Contemporary Syntactic Theory (Mark Baltin And Chris Collins, Eds.), Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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The Syntactic Encoding Of Topic And Focus, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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On Extraction Asymmetries, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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An Explanation Of Extraction Asymmetries In Malagasy, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper investigates one aspect of cross-linguistic variation in extraction patterns. Data from Malagasy have posed a problem for ECP-based accounts of A-bar movement. This variation is shown to stem from fundamental differences in how arguments are licensed. In Malagasy, for example, objects are licensed in-situ and never escape vP. Since vP is a strong phase, objects can never be a target for A-bar movement. In languages such as English, however, objects must be licensed by some head external to the vP. Movement to the edge of vP in English allows for futher A-bar movement. Also discussed is how the …

Une Anaphore Nue En Malgache, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

Cet article porte sur l’anaphore malgache tena ‘corps’. Il est démontré que cette anaphore est un nominal «nu». À cause de sa forme, la distribution de tena est assez restreinte et contraste avec la distribution d’un autre élément supposément anaphorique, ny tenany ‘son corps’. Ce dernier n’est pas une anaphore, en effet, mais a la distribution et l’interprétation d’un nominal complexe qui contient un pronom possessif. This article examines the Malagasy anaphor tena ‘body’. It is shown that this anaphor is a bare noun and therefore has a highly restricted distribution. Tena is then contrasted with another anaphor-like element, ny …

On The Difference Between Raising And Control, Jill Heather Flegg, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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Concealed Pseudo-Clefts, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

This paper argues for a pseudo-cleft analysis of so-called clefts in Malagasy. Evidence is presented that the clefted element is in fact the matrix (copular) predicate and that the pre-suppositional clause is a headless relative in subject position. The proposed pseudo-cleft structure accounts for the focus interpretation of this construction, due to the underlying presence of a definite description in the subject position.

Binding As (Non-) Evidence For Structure, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

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