This paper examines the emphatic interpretation associated with English verb-phrase preposing (VPP). Two main conclusions emerge. First, the emphatic interpretation is not an idiosyncratic property of VPP. Second, the interpretation is triggered not by any property of VPP, but rather by repetition of a lexical verb with a particular intonational contour
The article shows that, in spite of their DP-internal appearance, many instances of the English prep...
There is ample psycholinguistic evidence that speakers behave efficiently, using shorter and less ef...
This paper aims to investigate the holistic semantic structure of 20 high frequency English preposit...
The extrasentential competence which underlies a speaker\u27s knowledge about the appropriateness of...
This paper examines predicate phrase (PredP) ellipsis in English, identifying the exact constituent(...
The availability of preposition omission in ellipsis is assumed to follow from the possibility of pr...
How do speakers avoid producing verb overgeneralization errors such as *'She covered paint onto the ...
This dissertation examines the traditional evidence for the Argument/Adjunct Distinction (A/AD). I b...
Hewson (1997) clearly illustrates the 'typological shift to configurational syntax' giving rise to t...
This study examines to what extent preposition stranding is used in connection with which, whom and ...
National audienceThe objective of this chapter is to propose an analysis of the transitivity status ...
Certain English sentences containing multiple prepositional phrases (e.g., She had planned to cram t...
In the present paper, we bring to light some new facts regarding the preposition during. Our corpora...
Abstract: This paper argues that what previous accounts have treated as two types of noun phrase pre...
SOV languages are said to have less rigid word order than SVO languages because they allow scramblin...
The article shows that, in spite of their DP-internal appearance, many instances of the English prep...
There is ample psycholinguistic evidence that speakers behave efficiently, using shorter and less ef...
This paper aims to investigate the holistic semantic structure of 20 high frequency English preposit...
The extrasentential competence which underlies a speaker\u27s knowledge about the appropriateness of...
This paper examines predicate phrase (PredP) ellipsis in English, identifying the exact constituent(...
The availability of preposition omission in ellipsis is assumed to follow from the possibility of pr...
How do speakers avoid producing verb overgeneralization errors such as *'She covered paint onto the ...
This dissertation examines the traditional evidence for the Argument/Adjunct Distinction (A/AD). I b...
Hewson (1997) clearly illustrates the 'typological shift to configurational syntax' giving rise to t...
This study examines to what extent preposition stranding is used in connection with which, whom and ...
National audienceThe objective of this chapter is to propose an analysis of the transitivity status ...
Certain English sentences containing multiple prepositional phrases (e.g., She had planned to cram t...
In the present paper, we bring to light some new facts regarding the preposition during. Our corpora...
Abstract: This paper argues that what previous accounts have treated as two types of noun phrase pre...
SOV languages are said to have less rigid word order than SVO languages because they allow scramblin...
The article shows that, in spite of their DP-internal appearance, many instances of the English prep...
There is ample psycholinguistic evidence that speakers behave efficiently, using shorter and less ef...
This paper aims to investigate the holistic semantic structure of 20 high frequency English preposit...
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