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2015-03-19 16:40:57 -0400 damir

Island theory and discontinuous islands in Minimalist Program

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2015-08-11 20:10:20 -0400 Romanov

What counts as evidence for existence of a phonologically null element?

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2016-03-31 08:40:45 -0400 issarazaq

wanna contraction in Arabic?

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2016-09-07 00:24:38 -0400 Toshiyuki Sakoda

Reference/Name/Origin of headedness constraint on modifying NPs in English

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2017-07-23 16:11:20 -0400 clavela

Validity of weak crossover effects?

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2019-09-02 17:49:44 -0400 noahw

Are these trees garbage?

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2019-11-06 17:47:08 -0400 TacoTuesdays

Consider the ambiguous sentence Pat shot the soldier with a gun. Provide two additional examples of sentences that are ambiguous due to the location a PP attaches (i.e., to the VP or the N).

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2020-03-22 03:27:50 -0400 Akari Takahata

Verb Projection Raising and the scope interpretation?

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2021-01-09 12:00:30 -0400 apwo

Are there any research groups or researchers working on the comparative syntax of Italian and Romanian?

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2015-03-19 15:08:21 -0400 anonymous

Syntax-Discourse Interface

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2015-07-11 00:28:15 -0400 usagi5886

I want to know the meaning of “today's morphology is yesterday's syntax

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2015-08-24 12:57:06 -0400 usagi5886

Tomlin's Fish Film

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2015-09-07 06:42:53 -0400 HD86

Is "to me" in "came to me" an adverbial?

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2017-03-02 12:29:38 -0400 Karen

Why do we use "and" between the last two items in a series, as in "This morning I ate eggs, toast, and bacon"? Why not just say, "This morning I ate eggs, toast, bacon"?

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2019-02-06 15:57:42 -0400 livb

What is the syntactic name for the structure 'need not be' (in contrast to 'does not need to be')?

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2019-08-13 08:15:20 -0400 T-rex

how to draw the tree diagram of the sentence "whose dirty underwear is this?"

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2019-11-23 02:36:37 -0400 JohannPot

Any languages with exclusively post-nominal quantifiers?

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2017-02-10 11:12:19 -0400 ksteimel

Tests to check whether a verb is transitive or not

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2017-03-02 12:24:13 -0400 ksteimel

Is there a contrast in acceptability between the following sentences:

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2019-02-12 11:08:29 -0400 Ponrawee

20 questions

Island theory and discontinuous islands in Minimalist Program

What counts as evidence for existence of a phonologically null element?

wanna contraction in Arabic?

Reference/Name/Origin of headedness constraint on modifying NPs in English

Validity of weak crossover effects?

Are these trees garbage?

Consider the ambiguous sentence Pat shot the soldier with a gun. Provide two additional examples of sentences that are ambiguous due to the location a PP attaches (i.e., to the VP or the N).

Verb Projection Raising and the scope interpretation?

Are there any research groups or researchers working on the comparative syntax of Italian and Romanian?

Syntax-Discourse Interface

I want to know the meaning of “today's morphology is yesterday's syntax

Tomlin's Fish Film

Is "to me" in "came to me" an adverbial?

Why do we use "and" between the last two items in a series, as in "This morning I ate eggs, toast, and bacon"? Why not just say, "This morning I ate eggs, toast, bacon"?

What is the syntactic name for the structure 'need not be' (in contrast to 'does not need to be')?

how to draw the tree diagram of the sentence "whose dirty underwear is this?"

Any languages with exclusively post-nominal quantifiers?

Tests to check whether a verb is transitive or not

Is there a contrast in acceptability between the following sentences:

Is "Fish fish fish eat eat eat" a grammatically correct sentence?

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