Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig) A standard assumption of earlier versions of generative grammar was that transformations can remove syntactic structure -- either complete subtrees of a phrase marker (as in transformations like Passive, Equi NP Deletion, or Indefinite Object Deletion), or just certain nodes or shells (see, e.g., Tree Pruning as envisaged by Haj Ross,...

This is a practice talk for a workshop

Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze will be giving two joint practice talks for the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January. 1. Dialects "haven’t got" to be the same: modal microvariation in English We propose a unified analysis of dialectal differences between British (Br) and North American (NoAm) English regarding 'have-got' – its modal scope...