Background. The internal structure of ditransitive verbs like give or send has been given a lot of attention in the generative literature. Two main approaches to these verbs in English can be distinguished: in the first approach, the double object construction (DOC) (1-a) is derivationally related to the structure with a dative PP (1-b) by an NP-movement accompanied by “dative-case absorption” ...

The aim of this study is to characterize the structuring complex utterance in Christine de Pizan’s writing and situate syntax relation that authors her time. We will examine mainly role structure argumentative text. Two particular syntactic aspects are thus taken into consideration: on one hand, topicalization a clause, which makes it possible connect clausal content with comment, refutative pa...

In this paper I investigate the alternation between VO and OV word order in spoken North Sami, based on data from LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. My results show that general is most frequent order. However, also find many instances of SAuxOV my material, particularly sentences with periphrastic verb forms where main infinitive (that is, modal constructions) object a pronoun. addition...

There is a long-standing debate concerning whether Mandarin topic constructions are movement-derived and form filler-gap dependency like the English-type topicalization. This ERP study explores this issue by testing island constraints, diagnostic for movement, actively observed during online processing of “gap-type” construction, an understudied area in sentence research. Following paradigm Tra...

Discourse structure and coherence relations are one of the main inferential challenges addressed by computational pragmatics. The present study focuses on discourse markers as key elements in guiding the inferences of the statements in natural language. Through a rule-based approach for the automatic identification, classification and annotation of the discourse markers in a multilingual parall...

A-bar Syntax is a very welcome addition to the crosslinguistic study of A-bar movement. It contains a wealth of interesting data, in particular from German, but also from Russian, Korean, and other languages. Moreover, it is written in a very clear style which makes it pleasant and easy to read despite its close to 500 pages. M uller's book serves at least two purposes: Firstly, it is an introd...