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...