Quotative inversion (QI) clauses in Setswana and English—two SVO languages—show a marked OVS word order in which a quote appears preverbally and the agentive external argument appears postverbally. In...

In this paper, I show that complex agreement interaction effects involving optional agreement, weak PCC effects with multiple subjects, and obligatory participant probing can all be accounted for unde...

Russian is a canonically-SVO language with relatively free word order (Bailyn 1995). As others have shown, OVS word orders for transitive clauses involve A-movement of the preverbal object (Bailyn 200...

Quotative inversion (QI) clauses in Setswana and English – two SVO languages – show a marked OVS word order in which a quote canonically appears preverbally and the agentive external argument appears ...

This paper offers a novel framework for understanding agreement variation and optionality in Spanish existential clauses involving the verb haber. In these existential sentences, though the prescripti...

This doctoral dissertation revolves around colloquial agreement alternations in many constructions in several languages involving postverbal thematic subjects. These alternations are productive and we...

A pillar of the generative grammar movement is a technical view about the nature of systems which can characterize NLs, grammars. This takes them to be what in logical terms are. proof-theoretical - l...

Abstract Tshila /tshílà/ is a Kalahari Khoe language spoken in central-southeastern Botswana by approximately 300 people (Schwab & Collins 2024). It is an SOV language. Tshila has a copular predic...