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  1. Attributive Comparative Deletion.Christopher Kennedy & Jason Merchant - unknown
    Comparatives are among the most extensively investigated constructions in generative grammar, yet comparatives involving attributive adjectives have received a relatively small amount of attention. This paper investigates a complex array of facts in this domain that shows that attributive comparatives, unlike other comparatives, are well-formed only if some type of ellipsis operation applies within the comparative clause. Incorporating data from English, Polish, Czech, Greek, and Bulgarian, we argue that these facts support two important conclusions. First, violations of Ross’s Left Branch (...)
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  • Cyclic linearization of syntactic structure.David Pesetsky - manuscript
    This paper proposes an architecture for the mapping between syntax and phonology — in particular, that aspect of phonology that determines ordering. In Fox and Pesetsky (in prep.), we will argue that this architecture, when combined with a general theory of syntactic domains ("phases"), provides a new understanding of a variety of phenomena that have received diverse accounts in the literature. This shorter paper focuses on two processes, both drawn from Scandinavian: the familiar process of Object Shift and the less (...)
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  • Compositionality, case, and the scope of auxiliaries.Muffy E. A. Siegel - 1987 - Linguistics and Philosophy 10 (1):53 - 75.
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  • Danny Fox, Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 35. MIT Press. [REVIEW]Danny Fox - 2002 - Linguistics and Philosophy 25 (2):233-259.
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  • The Antisymmetry of Syntax.Richard S. Kayne - 1994 - MIT Press.
    The Antisymmetry of Syntax proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption.
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  • Gapping as constituent coordination.Mark J. Steedman - 1990 - Linguistics and Philosophy 13 (2):207 - 263.
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  • Gapping, Conjunction Reduction, and Coordinate Deletion.Andreas Koutsoudas - 1971 - Foundations of Language 7 (3):337-386.
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  • Extraction and reconstruction.Diana Cresti - 1995 - Natural Language Semantics 3 (1):79-122.
    The possibility of extraction across awh-island is usually assumed to be dependent on whether or not the constituent in question can undergo “long” (i.e., nonlocal) Ā-movement across the island. However, the question of how to make a principled distinction between those elements which can violate locality and those which cannot is still rather controversial. I will propose that there are no well-formed locality violations in these cases, and that the grammaticality patterns observed derive from a semantic filter on the escape (...)
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  • How far will quantifiers go?Kyle Johnson - manuscript
    A method now popular for fixing the scopes of arguments involves a covert movement operation, named QR (for Quantifier Rule) by Robert May. May envisioned QR as a kind of adjunction operation, attaching the arguments so affected to phrases dominating that argument. From the surface representation in (1a), for instance, QR can fashion the representations in (1b) and (1c) by adjoining the object and/or subject argument to IP. (1) a. [IP Someone [VP loves everyone ]]. b. [IP everyone1 [IP someone (...)
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