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Linguistic Inquiry | 2015

Two Components of Long-Distance Extraction: Successive Cyclicity in Dinka

Coppe van Urk; Norvin Richards

This article presents novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka, in which the syntax of successive-cyclic movement is remarkably transparent. We show that Dinka provides strong support for the view that long-distance extraction proceeds through the edge of every verb phrase and every clause on the path of movement (Chomsky 1986, 2000, 2001, 2008). In addition, long-distance dependencies in Dinka offer evidence that extraction from a CP requires agreement between v and the CP that is extracted from (Rackowski and Richards 2005, Den Dikken 2009b, 2012a,b). The claim that both of these components constrain long-distance movement is important, as much contemporary work on extraction incorporates only one of them. To accommodate this conclusion, we propose a modification of Rackowski and Richards 2005, in which both intermediate movement and Agree relations between phase heads are necessary steps in establishing a long-distance dependency.


Linguistic Inquiry | 2013

Visser's Generalization: The Syntax of Control and the Passive

Coppe van Urk

This squib presents an argument for an agreement-based model of control (Borer 1989; Landau 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008), drawn from a cross-linguistic generalization about control in passives. Specifically, I show that obligatory control by the thematic subject of a passive is sensitive to a purely syntactic restriction: it is only possible if T does not agree with an overt DP. This restriction follows from the logic of an agreement-based approach, if implicit arguments participate in Agree relations (Landau 2010; Legate 2010). This generalization subsumes and derives an old observation about control, Visser’s Generalization (Jenkins 1972; Bresnan 1982).


Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2015

Aspect splits without ergativity

Laura Kalin; Coppe van Urk


Archive | 2012

Directionality and intervention in nominal concord: Evidence from Zazakiezafe

Maziar Toosarvandani; Coppe van Urk


AFLA 21: The Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association | 2015

What makes a voice system? On the relationship between voice marking and case

Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk


Archive | 2018

The typology of nominal licensing in Austronesian voice languages

Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk


Archive | 2017

Ergativity and Austronesian-Type Voice Systems

Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk


Archive | 2014

On the relationship between voice marking and case

Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk


Archive | 2012

Chomsky's Linguistics

Noam Chomsky; Peter Graff; Coppe van Urk

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Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

National University of Singapore

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Laura Kalin

University of California

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Noam Chomsky

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Norvin Richards

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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