Coppe van Urk
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Linguistic Inquiry | 2015
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
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
Laura Kalin; Coppe van Urk
Archive | 2012
Maziar Toosarvandani; Coppe van Urk
AFLA 21: The Proceedings of the 21st Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association | 2015
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk
Archive | 2018
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk
Archive | 2017
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk
Archive | 2014
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine; Theodore Levin; Coppe van Urk
Archive | 2012
Noam Chomsky; Peter Graff; Coppe van Urk