Typology of Constituent Interrogatives in Central Yorùbá Dialects: A Minimalist Description

On the Treatment of Multiple-Wh-Interrogatives in Minimalist Grammars

As shown by Michaelis (2001a,b), Stablerian Minimalist Grammars (MGs) (Stabler 1997b, 1998, 2008) belong among the class of mildly context-sensitive grammar formalisms as, e.g., characterized in Joshi et al. 1991. Crucially, mild context-sensitivity depends on what may—somewhat loosely—be referred to as resource-sensitivity, i.e., strictly limited combinability of syntactic objects. Within MGs,...

Typology of Prosodic Phrasing in Japanese Dialects

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

On the Development of a Quantity Typology for Swedish Dialects

This article reports first results of a quantity typology study of Swedish dialects, conducted within the Swedia2000 project (see also www.swedia.nu). The examination of recordings from 20 different areas suggests three preliminary types of quantity distinctions: one type shows the usual Swedish complementary quantity distinction, one type uses an additional quantity pattern and one type shows ...

Discontinuity (Re)2visited: A Minimalist Approach to Pseudoprojective Constituent Parsing

In this paper, we use insights from Minimalist Grammars (Keenan and Stabler, 2003) to argue for a context-free approximation of discontinuous structures that is both easy to parse for state-of-the-art dynamic programming constituent parsers and has a simple and effective method for the reconstruction of discontinuous tree structures. The results achieved on the Tiger treebank – paired with stat...