TRANSITIVE EXPLETIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AND OVERT SUBJECT MOVEMENT

Transitive Expletive Constructions and the Object Shift Parameter

3 Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types

English Expletive Constructions Are Not Infected

Sobin (1997) proposes an analysis of several ‘‘prestige’’ constructions of English under which they result from grammatical viruses. Counter to his claim, I argue that plural agreement in expletive constructions introduced by there results not from a virus but from the grammar of English, because it lacks signature properties of viruses. I show that the flat agreement seen in expletive construc...

Constructions of transitive latin hypercubes

A set of vertices of the q-ary n-dimensional Hamming space is called a distance-2 MDS code if it has exactly one element in intersection with every line. By an isotopism we mean an isometric transformation of the Hamming space that independently permutes the symbols in every coordinate but does not change the coordinate order. A set M of vertices is called transitive if its automorphism group (...

Discourse Prominence and Movement Constructions

One of the key requirements in understanding a text is deciding how successive utterances relate to one another. Anaphors help in this respect by picking out entities already existing in the discourse and indicating the referent to which the new information encoded in the utterance should be attached. Sometimes, the interpretation of an anaphor is determined entirely by the morphosyntactic feat...