Arnold Ernest Evers

List of John Benjamins publications for which Arnold Ernest Evers plays a role.

Evers, Arnold Ernest 2010 Restructuring head and argument in West-GermanicThe Linguistics Enterprise: From knowledge of language to knowledge in linguistics, Everaert, Martin B.H., Tom Lentz, Hannah N.M. De Mulder, Øystein Nilsen and Arjen Zondervan (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Article
The West-Germanic, c.q. Dutch, complex predicate appears as a series of verbs in predicate-final position. They were considered as a kind of separate unit (a field) in structuralist grammar (Bech 1955; Paardekooper 1955). A direct generative phrasing of that view follows from a head-to-head raising… read more
Evers, Arnold Ernest 2010 Repairing head-to-head movementStructure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 125–130 | Article
Evers, Arnold Ernest and Jacqueline van Kampen 2008 Parameter setting and input reductionThe Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.), pp. 483–515 | Article
The language acquisition procedure identifies certain properties of the targetgrammar before others. The evidence from the input is processed in a stepwiseorder. Section 1 equates that order and its typical effects with an order ofparameter setting. The question is how the acquisition procedure… read more
Evers, Arnold Ernest 2003 2. Verbal clusters and cluster creepersVerb Constructions in German and Dutch, Seuren, Pieter A.M. and Gerard Kempen (eds.), pp. 43–89 | Chapter
Evers, Arnold Ernest 1990 The Infinitival Prefix “zu” as INFLScrambling and Barriers, Grewendorf, Günther and Wolfgang Sternefeld (eds.), pp. 217–238 | Article