Reimagining the Semantics of Narratives and Counterfactuals We propose a semantics for narratives and counterfactuals that explicitly connects them to cognitive models of temporal / causal inferences in narrative discourse...

“Cross-linguistic differences in coarticulation in two Australian languages”

Under standard Phase Theory, the locality constraint deriving successive cyclicity is the PIC (Chomsky 2001), which requires movement to proceed via the edge of phases. For example, a CP phase...

Structure building in language production Language production is one of the two primary ways in which we use our grammatical knowledge. However, compared to our understanding of how comprehenders parse...

Sierra Miwwok Templates-, Practice Talk for Prosodic & Segmental Patterns in Morpholog

Internal determiners in Pular relative clauses This talk presents novel data from Pular, an Atlantic language spoken in Guinea. I show that in Pular, it is possible to express the determiner for a relative clause in a clause-internal position, directly after any verb. Based on this, I argue for the following claims. First, Pular provides...

Agree is considered one of the fundamental operations of Minimalist Syntax, responsible for establishing long-distance dependencies (e.g. agreement, wh-movement). Various models of Agree have been suggested over the last few...