Some recent work has argued that agreement and case-assignment dependencies between a functional head nearby NP are not part of the syntactic derivation proper, but take place in postsyntactic, morphological component grammar. I argue this view is correct, by showing one its largely unexplored predictions real empirical payout. The prediction dependency-forming properties heads, being nature, m...

A simple method is introduced for analyzing error score distributions from the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue test. The method involves fitting a sine wave directly to the error distribution, and produces estimates of three parameters that characterize the severity of the defect, the degree of bipolarity, and the orientation of the axis of bipolarity, if one is present. The method produces good est...

Is positive affect (PA) the bipolar opposite of, or is it independent of, negative affect (NA)? Previous analyses of this vexing question have generally labored under the false assumption that bipolarity predicts an invariant latent correlation between PA and NA. The predicted correlation varies with time frame, response format, and items selected to define PA and NA. The observed correlation a...

In his 2002 monograph Minimalistische Syntax, Günther Grewendorf proposes a C-domain for German which is positionally richer than traditionally assumed in generative syntax. In following leading ideas by Rizzi (1997), Grewendorf assumes a structure for German in which the C-domain may be split up into different functional positions among which there are two potential landing sites for wh-phrase...