<i>Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective</i>

Is Balkan Comparative Syntax Possible?

The Comparative Syntax of Passive Structures in Chinese and Vietnamese

Building on previous research on the bei construction in Chinese and similar forms in other East Asian languages in Huang (1999) and other works, this paper offers a further comparative perspective on Chinese-type passives and their parametric variation with a consideration of passive structures in Vietnamese, an Austroasiatic language which has received much historical influence from Chinese. ...

Syntax, action, comparative cognitive science, and Darwinian thinking

In a recent exchange, Moro (2014) and Pulvermüller (2014) re-open a longstanding debate in the language sciences. Ever since the 1975 Royaumont encounter that set the agenda for linguistics and the classical cognitive sciences, generative linguists, whose ultimate goal we take to be to shed light on the biological basis for language, have rejected any attempt of a rapprochement between natural ...

Quantitative Comparative Syntax on the Cantonese-Mandarin Parallel Dependency Treebank

This paper describes a new Cantonese-Mandarin parallel dependency treebank. We discuss the extent to which the treebank allows for comparative measures with the goal of quantifying structural differences between the two languages. After presenting syntactic differences between the two languages, we computed various frequency measures on the treebank. We present the results and discuss whether t...

Investigating Syntax Comprehension in Persian-speaking Children With Autism

Objectives: Grammar is frequently considered as the strength in the language profile of autistic children. Only a few studies have investigated the grammatical knowledge of these children. There are some research studies, but they are inconclusive, and less is known about the linguistic characteristics of children with autism in some languages, like Persian. Thus, the present study aimed at the...