Ayesha Kidwai

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ayesha Kidwai plays a role.

Articles

Kidwai, Ayesha. 2010. The cartography of phases: Facts and inference in Meiteilon. Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Virginia Hill (eds.), pp. 233–262
This paper investigates the relation between cartographic and phasal heads in the light of Chomsky’s recent proposals (2007) of feature transfer from C to T; the data come from Meiteilon, a language that lacks Tense morphology. I argue that the evidence from this language provides striking… read more | Article
Kidwai, Ayesha. 1999. Word Order and Focus Positions in Universal Grammar. The Grammar of Focus, Rebuschi, Georges and Laurice Tuller (eds.), pp. 213 ff.
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