"A Hungarian Answer to Locality: Zipper Merge" Syntactic opacity can be selective, that is, movement landing in a matrix clause-position may be only grammatical from within a subset of embedded clauses. Existing work on selective opacity has primarily focused on the syntactic size of the embedded clause ( e.g. Williams, 2003). For instance, clauses with...

  Unaccusativity and the active/stative split in Guarani Guarani is known as one of the canonical active/stative languages in which intransitive verbs vary in whether they take so-called active (looks like subject) or so-called stative (looks like object) agreement. However, there are two problems with this view: i) lots of exceptions are attested and ii)...