E. G. C. Poole
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View article: Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic
Not all reconstruction effects are syntactic Open
This paper argues that not all reconstruction effects can be reduced to a syntactic mechanism that selectively interprets copies at LF. The argument is based on the novel observation that some but not all reconstruction effects induce Cond…
View article: Dependent-case assignment could be AGREE
Dependent-case assignment could be AGREE Open
Preminger (to appear) claims that an AGREE-based theory of case assignment undergenerates because it cannot handle attested dependent-case patterns. This paper argues that dependent-case assignment can in fact be modelled using the operati…
View article: Improper case
Improper case Open
This paper argues that case assignment is impossible in configurations that parallel generalized improper-movement configurations. Thus, like improper movement, there is “improper case.” The empirical motivation comes from (i) the interact…
View article: Movement and the Semantic Type of Traces
Movement and the Semantic Type of Traces Open
When Ella Young Flagg, the first female superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools, proposed that educational leadership was a woman’s “natural field” she could not have predicted that one hundred years later women would have neither a m…
View article: Spurious NPI licensing and exhaustification
Spurious NPI licensing and exhaustification Open
Under certain circumstances, speakers are subject to so-called spurious NPI licensing effects, whereby they perceive that NPIs without a c–commanding licensor are in fact licensed and grammatical. Previous studies have all involved the pre…
View article: Constraining (shifting) types at the interface
Constraining (shifting) types at the interface Open
This paper argues that traces only range over individual semantic types and cannot betype shifted into higher types to circumvent this restriction. The evidence comes from movementtargeting positions where DPs must denote properties and th…