In this Chapter we discuss proposals concerning the detection of nonreferentiality and non-anaphoricity, and the integration of such methods in an anaphora resolution system. We first review in brief a number of proposals on the topics, also covering literature on detecting abstract anaphora and discussing available resources; we then discuss in detail the proposals by Bergsma on expletive dete...

While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there-insertion. This paper argues that there-insertion can be used to diagnose vPs with no external argument, ruling out transitives, unergatives, and also inchoatives, which are argued to project an event argument on th...

Existential constructions play an important role in the development of Generative Grammar. Their special natures urge linguists to pay painstaking effort to give them a unified account. At first we have a brief review of the relevant study of these constructions and examine their strong points and weakness. On the basis of their study, we assume that in existential constructions of SVO language...

In this paper I argue that the negative marker lo in Modern Hebrew surfaces in two environments, free relatives and until-clauses, in which its contribution is not that of standard negation, but rather parallels the -ever morpheme familiar from English. First, I establish that existing approaches to similar cases of expletive negation in other languages cannot account for the Hebrew data. I the...

Hubble, Ryan M. M.A. Purdue University, December 2013. The ‘X it up’ Verb Construction: A Syntactic and Sociolinguistic Approach. Major Professor: Elena Benedicto. This thesis focuses on a unique and, as of yet, unstudied particle verb construction in English, referred to as the ‘X it up’ construction (e.g. I partied it up last night). Syntactic and sociolinguistic perspectives are taken to exp...