This paper defends the thesis that in German all sentential arguments occurring in sentenceinitial position have undergone obligatory left dislocation. This implies that the Vorfeld is unable to be occupied by sentential arguments. The resumptive pronoun that immediately follows the left-dislocated phrase may be deleted in accordance with the conditions on Topic Drop that hold for German (cf. O...

Abstract This article focuses on the interpretation of adjectives that appear in Greek polydefinite DP s. It provides empirical support to established position restrictive modifiers are preferred environments (Kolliakou 1995). At same time, it shows non-restrictively modified polydefinites not excluded by grammar (Manolessou 2000). To reconcile facts, a novel syntactic analysis polydefiniteness...

In a local derivational (phase-based) approach to syntax, instances of resumption in German (longdistance) relativization constructions with an empty operator and a complementizer wo (‘where’) must be analyzed in terms of movement. Against this background, these constructions raise three problems for syntactic analysis: (i) a locality (backtracking) problem (‘How can the information that a resu...

We investigate the power of online algorithms and mechanisms for two different classic models of preemptive online job scheduling. These two models are resumptive and non-resumptive job scheduling. The distinction is when we decide to allocate a previously preempted job. In the resumptive model we resume the job’s allocation as if no preemption has occurred. In the non-resumptive model the job’...

The resumption phenomenon has attracted the attention of linguists within different frameworks and in various languages. However, this received limited Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), especially relation to Direct Object Relative Clauses (DORCs). There have been a few discussions DORCs disregard can be attributed fundamental reason which is optionality construction particular. By large, interpret...

Despite a vast literature on Yiddish relative clauses, their linguistic and geographical aspects have often been neglected. Based data from the Language Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (JCAAJ), areal distribution subject oblique clauses is analyzed for first time. I show that vos ‘that; what’, which also introduces non-relative complement most common element to introduce whereas in pronoun ve...

A Minimalist hypothesis about resumptive pronouns is that they should be no different from ordinary pronouns (McCloskey 2006). The paper substantiates this hypothesis with respect to a particular view of pronouns: pronouns are ‘elsewhere’ elements. Just as the interpretation of ordinary pronouns, on this view, is determined by competition with anaphors, the interpretation of resumptive pronouns...

Two types of resumption are argued for in the literature: (i) base-generated resumption and (ii) resumption as movement (Aoun et al. 2001; Boeckx 2003). The latter is analyzed as involving stranding. A DP merges in its base position with a resumptive element adjoined to it. Movement targets the DP, while the resumptive element is left behind – or stranded. This article presents evidence from Co...

The aim of this study is to discuss the hypothesis according to which prosodic prominence and pragmatic salience are closely related. To do so, we focus on French clitic-left dislocated subjects, namely those constructions where the subject occupies a position in the left periphery and co-refers with a resumptive clitic pronoun within the main clause. Scholars have made the hypothesis that the ...

Recent developments in the minimalist framework emphasise the importance of the interface between the narrow-syntactic component and the semantic (Conceptual-Intentional) component(s). Accordingly, recent syntactic theorising often endorses a desideratum of ‘interface transparency’: syntactic structures should be transparently legible for the C-I component(s). In this paper I wish to discuss fr...