It is proposed in this paper that the internal structure of proto-Formosan nominals may have undergone a historical development from juxtaposed to nonjuxtaposed type of syntactic structure, in which two distinct ways of juxtaposition DP-DP*, without juxtaposition of the functional projection of case, and KP-KP*, with juxtaposition of the functional projection of case, may have been involved. In...

This article examines the special processing characteristics of head-final relative clauses. As head-final relative clauses superficially resemble other prenominal modifiers such as adjectivals, stative verbs, and adjunctive/complement clauses, their status as a distinct kind has constantly been challenged. We present existing processing evidence to show that head-final relative clauses should ...

Existem vários estudos sobre o status categorial das Small Clauses (SCs) (STOWELL, 1981; MORO 2000, e outros), PrP (BOWERS, 1993), PredP (BAILYN, 2001) etc.). Dado que uma teoria da estrutura de frases exocêntricas requer os Objetos Sintáticos sejam rotulados para princípio Interpretação Plena possa interpretá-los em no componente CI, devemos entender qual rótulo é dado às SCs. O objetivo deste...

Tingchun Chen, MIT This paper proposes an analysis of Amis (Formosan, Austronesian; VSO) case alternations, implemented in a dependent case model (Marantz 1991), in which nominals crucially may receive case multiple times. Moreover, I argue that, contra some previous proposals, e.g. Levin (2016), the presence of a nominal in multiple phases is not a prerequisite for multiple case assignments, b...