Various types of structural information e.g., about the type of constructions in which binding constraints apply, or about the structure of names play a central role in coreference resolution, often in combination with lexical information (as in expletive detection). Kernel functions appear to be a promising candidate to capture structure-sensitive similarities and complex feature combinations,...

In German, complex wh-interrogatives can optionally be formed by inserting the 3 person neuter wh-pronoun was in the matrix (Spec,CP) position, instead of long-distance wh-raising. It is generally assumed that 'expletive' was serves as a placeholder for a contentful whexpression lower down in the sentence, which substitutes for it at the level of semantic interpretation. It can be shown, howeve...

Elicited imitation was used to determine whether young children's inconsistent production of sentence subjects was due to limitations in their knowledge of English or in their ability to access and use that knowledge. Nineteen young children (age range = 1 year 10 months to 2 years 8 months; Mean Length of Utterance [MLU] range = 1.28 to 4.93) repeated sentences that varied in length, structure...

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...

This research aimed at discovering: (1) the types of profanity uttered by male and female Indonesian Youtubers; (2) reasons for Youtubers in uttering their videos. used qualitative method as design. The subjects this were whose videos analyzed to find out using those profanity. data collection was done observation technique audio-visual digital materials. interactive model proposed Miles Huberm...