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Phase theory, case and relative clauses
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
The goal of this paper is to put forward an analysis of relative clauses which builds on Pesetsky and Torrego's (2001) proposal concerning the C-T connection and the nature of Case. In so doing, a unitary answer to two ...
A look at a second language learnes' task motivation
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
In this study, part of a larger project, I explore a) the possible relationship between task motivation as operationalized in Dörnyei's Process model of motivation and linguistic variables in a written production task, and ...
Complements and adjuncts in machine translation
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
A significant number of natural language processing applications cannot work without syntactic parsing. The automatic syntactic analysis of natural language texts in turn requires an efficient method for differentiating ...
How strong islands are derived from the way a top-down derivation is linearized
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
The goal of this paper is to show that strong islands can be derived from the way derivation is linearized, as long as we assume that the derivation proceeds in a topdown fashion.To begin with, I will present one advantage ...
Argument structure and morphology: the case of "en"-prefixation revisited
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
In this paper I argue that en-prefixed words in Catalan and English (e.g. amorN 'love' ' [[en+amor]V+ar]V 'to make someone fall in love'; nobleA ' [en+noble]V are not exceptions to the Right-hand Head Rule (RHR; Williams ...
Aspects of quotative constructions in Iberian Spanish
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
Argument-mapping and extration
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
In this paper, I propose a unified account for argument-mapping and islandhood in the verbal domain, while casting new light on the notion external argument, as well as the interaction of Case and argument-mapping.I argue ...
A crosslinguistic perspective on n-words
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
The semantic status of so-called n-words in Negative Concord languages has been under considerable debate. This paper takes a new perspective on this problem by bringing Negative Concord together with two different phenomena ...
Adjectival passives and adjectival decausatives in Hebrew
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
The distinction between adjectival passives and verbal passives is a very well known one. In this paper, I try to define the operation that forms adjectival passives in Hebrew. I claim that a close look at Hebrew adjectival ...
Types of syncretism in the clitic systems of romance
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2007)
In this paper I will discuss the hypothesis according to which every clitic system bears an elsewhere item, i.e., a non-specific clitic that can be inserted when the insertion of more specific items is blocked by independent ...