Transitive expletive constructions and the object shift parameter

Transitive Expletive Constructions and the Object Shift Parameter

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...

3 Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types

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 (...

The Evolution of Transitive Constructions in Austronesian

The AN comparative grammarian is favored by the large number of surviving daughter languages offering comparative testimony but handicapped by the apparently great diversity of case-marking systems among these languages, by problems in characterizing the structure of their case-marking systems, by igThe excellent work of Dahl (1973, Ch. 22) and Wolff (1973) deals with some of the same problems ...