Publications |
Monograph
2004 |
Ellipsis in Comparatives. Berlin, New York: Mouton
de Gruyter. |
Reviewed by Rajesh Bhatt and Shoichi Takahashi.
2011. Journal of Comparative Germanic
Linguistic 14.2: 139-171 |
Articles &
Manuscripts
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Basic
Operations. In Grohmann,
Kleanthes and Evelina Leivada (eds.), The
Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
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2020 |
Clausal
vs. phrasal comparatives. In Gutzmann,
Daniel, Lisa Matthewson, Cécile Meier, Hotze Rullmann and Thomas Ede
Zimmermann (eds.), The
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. |
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2019 |
Comparative Deletion. In van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen and Tanja Temmerman (eds.), The
Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
624-657. |
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2019 |
A Calculus for
Reconstruction and Anti-reconstruction. In Schenner, Mathias and Manfred Krifka
(eds.), Reconstruction Effects in
Relative Clauses. Studia Grammatica. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 113-145. |
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A system deriving scope rigidity,
the ban on reconstruction into thematic subject positions and dissociations
between scope and binding reconstruction in German scrambling chains. |
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2017 |
Phrasal comparatives and parasitic scope.
In Mayr, Clemens and Edwin Williams
(eds.), 11-11-2017. Festschrift
für Martin Prinzhorn. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 82. |
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2017 |
A note on
reflexive ECM subjects. In LaCara, Nicholas, Keir Moulton and Anne-Michelle
Tessier, A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson.
Linguistics Open Access Publications 1, 219-232. |
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2017 |
Comparative Deletion and
Comparative Subdeletion (with Norbert
Corver). In Everaert, Martin and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.),The
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, 2nd Edition. Malden:
Blackwell. |
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2015 |
The syntax-semantics interface. In Kiss, Tibor and Artemis Alexiadou (eds.), Syntax
- Theory and Analysis. An International Handbook.
Handbooks of Linguistics and Communcation Science 42. Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter, 1199-1256. |
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Survey of the syntax-semantics interface. |
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2013 |
Harmonic
Derivationalism. In Folli, Raffaella, Christina Sevdali and Robert
Truswell (eds.), Syntax and its Limits.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 19-43. |
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Covert movements
are argued to apply in two different components: scope shifting operations
take place at a pre-syntactic level that communicates with the Deductive
System (Fox 2000), while movements at LF are local and solely driven by the
need to transduce syntactic objects into transparently interpretable input
representations to semantics. On this view, LF is a genuine interface. [Work
in progress, the Uniformity Condition (27) needs to be eliminated.] |
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2013 |
Diagnosing covert
movement with the Duke of York and reconstruction. In Cheng, Lisa and Norbert Corver
(eds.), Diagnosing Syntax. Oxford:
Oxford University Press,158 – 190. |
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An argument for
derivations and a hybrid theory of reconstruction which does not
overgenerate. |
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2013 |
Group summary: Diagnosing XP-movement. In Cheng, Lisa and Norbert Corver
(eds.), Diagnosing Syntax, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 235-251. |
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A brief survey
of diagnostics for covert XP-movements |
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2012 |
Towards a theory of
transparent reflexivization. Ms, University of Athens. Following the
tradition in Categorial Grammar, reflexives are analyzed as arity reduction
functors. Unlike in monostratal models, it is suggested that both the
reflexive and its antecedent undergo covert movement to ensure
interpretability. Standard syntactic conditions on movement derive the
c-command condition and central locality properties of anaphors. The analysis
captures recalcitrant occurrences of reflexives in double object
constructions, the behavior of reflexives in ECM, as well as aspects of control
infinitives and the i-within-i
condition. |
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2012 |
Structure building from
below: more on Survive and covert movement. In Valmala, Vidal and Myriam
Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), Ways of
Structure Building. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 297-329. |
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A new and substantially simplified definition of movement in terms of
push chains. This is an elaboration of Evidence
for Survive from covert movement. |
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2011 |
Linguistische
Theorie im Unterricht. In Alexandris, Christina, et. al (eds.) Schnittstellen
von Linguistik und
Sprachdidaktik in der Auslandsgermanistik, University of Athens,
107-122. |
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Some remarks on how to
integrate linguistic results into teaching German as a foreign language |
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2009 |
Evidence for Survive from covert movement. In Mike Putnam (ed.), Towards a Derivational Syntax.
Survive-minimalsm.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 231-256. (For handout of updated version click here) |
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A common analysis of scope restrictions in double object constructions
and inverse linking yields an argument for a theory in which movement is
modeled in terms of feature incompatibility and push chains instead of
feature matching and attraction (Stroik 2009). |
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2009 |
Metametacomparatives. Comments on Metalinguistic contrast in the grammar of
Greek by Giannakidou
& Stavrou. Â In Halpern, Claire, Jeremy Hartman and David Hill.
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
57, 75-91. |
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2009 |
A
puzzle for remnant movement analyses of V2. Linguistic
Inquiry 40.2: 346-356. |
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Remnant
movement analyses for head movement cannot account for basal relations
between precedence and scope. |
2008 |
On Binding Scope and Ellipsis
Scope. In K. Johnson (ed.), Ellipsis.
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 154-183 (Download from LingBuzz) |
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Arguments
for an ellipsis analysis of phrasal comparatives and a new descriptive
constraint on double indexing of world variables (originally 2001, revised
for content and form). |
2007 |
Interpretive Effects of Head Movement. LingBuzz (version 2.0, March 2007) |
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Evidence
for semantically visible head movement of modals. Includes (i) compositional
semantics for head movement chains; (ii) discussion of licensing and
reconstruction properties of negative NPs; and (iii) an algorithm for cyclic
derivation of head movement. |
2006 |
An interpretive effect of Head Movement. In M. Frascarelli (ed.), Phases of Interpretation. Berlin und New York, Mouton de Gruyter.
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A shorter version of Interpretive Effects of Head Movement, without explicit semantics
for head movement and the discussion of need. |
2005 |
Clitics and adjacency in Greek
PPs (with Elena Anagnostopoulou) In H. Broekhuis, N.
Corver, J. Koster, R. Huybregts andU. Kleinhenz (eds.), Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk,
Berlin/New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 2005.
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Analysis of complex word order alternations in Greek
PPs, supporting an argument against a remnant movement account of the
phenomena. |
2004 |
Extending and Reducing the MLC. In Stepanov, A., G.
Fanselow and R. Vogel (eds.), Minimality
Effects in Syntax. Berlin and New York, Mouton
de Gruyter. (LingBuzz) |
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A new definition of the Minimal Link Condition (i)
eliminates redundancies between Merge and Move, (ii) subsumes Merge over Move
effects under the MLC and (iii) derives Case Freezing. Includes a local
algorithm for the computation of syntactic locality that explains locality
conditions as a consequence of the LCA (NB: Final section [4.3] differs in
details from published version.) |
2003 |
Phrase Structure Paradoxes, Movement and Ellipsis. In Schwabe, K. and S.
Winkler, Adding and Omitting,
Amsterdam, John Benjamins. |
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A theory in which economy conditions also regulate
Merge accounts for interpretive differences of remnants in VP-ellipsis and
VP-fronting. It is demonstrated that contra Phillips (2003), these contrasts
do not constitute evidence for a top-down analysis. |
2003 |
Comparatives and
DP-Structure. Summary and review of dissertation. GLOT
International 7.3. |
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2002 |
Negative Islands in Comparatives. Snippets 5. |
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Reports systematic violations of Inner Islands in a
selective group of comparatives. |
2001 |
Reduced and Phrasal
Comparatives. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 19.4: 683-735. |
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2000 |
Bivalent Coordination in German. Snippets 1. (see also handout on Bivalent Coordination) |
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Two phrase structure paradoxes from coordination
with either - or and neither - nor. |
1999 |
Ellipsis Resolution in Phrasal Comparatives and the
Right Periphery of DP. Proceedings of WCCFL XVII, University of British
Columbia. |
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1998 |
Phrasal Comparatives and DP Structure. Proceedings of NELS 28, University of Toronto.
Amherst: GLSA. |
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1998 |
Two Kinds of
Reconstruction. Studia
Linguistica 52.3: 276- 310. |
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The paper argues that the grammar incorporates
processes for reconstruction in syntax as well as in semantics (shorter,
edited version of Lechner 1996; for handout containing recent ideas click here). |
1998 |
Reconstruction and
Determiner Raising. In G. Katz, S.-S. Kim, & H. Winhart
(eds.), Reconstruction. Proceedings of
the 1997 Tübingen Workshop, Stuttgart/Tübingen: University of
Stuttgart/University of Tübingen. |
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Compositional analysis of Diesing’s Mapping
Hypothesis (revised, simplified version of Lechner 1996). |
1996 |
On Semantic and
Syntactic Reconstruction. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 57-59: 63-100. |
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This paper and Lechner 1998b/c (circulating since 1995)
spell out a semantically transparent analyses of (i) sope permutation in
terms of Semnatic Reconstruction, (ii) scope rigidity in languages such as
German, and (iii) Diesing’s Mapping Hypothesis. |
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