Small clause predicates and sluicing

German Clause-Embedding Predicates: an Extraction and Classification Approach

Computing Small Clause Normal Forms

Swiping without Sluicing

In sluiced clauses, English allows a wh-expression to be inverted around its preposition in a process called swiping, as in (1a) (Merchant 2002). I show, contrary to previous work, that swiping is not limited to ellipsis contexts: it is also permitted when the inverted (swiped) whPP is coordinated with another wh-phrase, as shown for both matrix and embedded contexts in (1b-c), both from the in...

On Generating Small Clause Normal Forms

In this paper we focus on two powerful techniques to obtain compact clause normal forms: Renaming of formulae and reened Skolem-ization methods. We illustrate their eeect on various examples. By an exhaustive experiment of all rst-order TPTP problems, it shows that our clause normal form transformation yields fewer clauses and fewer literals than the methods known and used so far. This often al...

Ettehkey 'how' as a Small Clause Head

WH-words are not uniform in their syntactic behaviors. Adjunct WH-words such as HOW and WHY are said to be more restricted in their distribution than argument WH-words such as WHO and WHAT. It is observed, however, that HOW in some East Asian languages behaves more like argument WH-words and does not display ECP effects. In this paper, I try to account for the HOW vs. WHY difference in Korean. ...