The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Edited by Artemis Alexiadou, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 32] 2000. vi, 395 pp.
Paul Law
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Law plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax
2023 The syntax of reconstruction in English and Chinese Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:1, pp. 22–47 | Article
The paper investigates a range of facts exhibiting reconstruction effects. We consider facts concerning anaphor binding, variable binding, quantifier scope and binding condition C in A-bar-movement structures (questions, relative clauses and topicalization) as well as VP fronting in English and… read more
2023 Six reconstruction effects in Mandarin Chinese International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 10:1, pp. 1–43 | Article
The paper presents empirical evidence for six reconstruction effects in Mandarin Chinese. It includes data concerning the copula verb, epistemic modals, scope of aspectual sentence-final particle –le over indefinite wh-phrases, downward entailing quantifiers, predicates of creation, Binding… read more
2019 Chapter 8. The syntax of either and disjunction Interfaces in Grammar, Hu, Jianhua and Haihua Pan (eds.), pp. 207–244 | Chapter
It is argued that the scope indicator
either is base-generated in place and its syntactic relation with disjunction is subject to a phase-theoretic locality constraint. Apparently unbalanced disjunction where either does not occur adjacent to disjunction is in fact syntactically balanced… read more
2010 The impersonal construction in Tagalog Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis (eds.), pp. 297–326 | Article
This paper argues that the impersonal construction in Tagalog, in which a formally invariant predicate may/mayroon ‘exist/have’ is followed by a thematic predicate, is structurally related to the existential construction and the possessive construction both employing the same predicate may/mayroon.… read more
2007 Topicalization in Malagasy, Tagalog and Tsou On Information Structure, Meaning and Form: Generalizations across languages, Schwabe, Kerstin and Susanne Winkler (eds.), pp. 129–154 | Article
2003 Past Participle Agreement with Pronominal Clitics and the Auxiliary Verbs in Italian and French Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected papers from 'Going Romance', Amsterdam, 6–8 December 2001, Quer, Josep, Jan Schroten, Mauro Scorretti, Petra Sleeman and Els Verheugd-Daatzelaar (eds.), pp. 193–212 | Article
2000 Introduction The Syntax of Relative Clauses, Alexiadou, Artemis, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder (eds.), pp. 1–52 | Miscellaneous
2000 On Relative Clauses and the DP/PP Adjunction Asymmetry The Syntax of Relative Clauses, Alexiadou, Artemis, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder (eds.), pp. 161–200 | Article
1997 On Extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation, Alexiadou, Artemis and Tracy Alan Hall (eds.), pp. 155–179 | Article
1996 Review of Aoun & Audrey Li (1993): Syntax of Scope Studies in Language 20:1, pp. 213–224 | Review
1994 A Note on Theme-Serial Verb Constructions in Haitian Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:1, pp. 121–126 | To be specified