In contrast to fruitful studies of resumptive pronouns (RP) in inflectional languages, few substantial studies have been done to explore the characteristics of RPs in Chinese. The thesis attempts to seek a unified theory for the occurrence of RPs. We classify RPs into three cate…
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One of the important issues in current linguistics involves locality conditions governing possible antecedents of reflexives and other anaphors. The various proposals have sought for a universal principle to account for language-specific differences. My dissertation aims to reso…
In the current Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995), the multiple subject construction (MSC) in Japanese is explained by the Case-based MSC parameter imposed on the category of T. However, this approach fails to reflect the layers of predication (Heycock 1994), which are the real…
This dissertation investigates two elliptical phenomena, sluicing and verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), in Indonesian. This dissertation is equally concerned with description and formal analysis, and provides the first in-depth description and generative analysis of both Indonesian sl…
This dissertation examines multiple case checking in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It investigates those constructions in which more than one element is morphologically marked with accusative case, namely double object constructions (DOCs) and embedded small clauses. The framewo…
This dissertation presents an analysis for sentential negation in English and Arabic within the framework of the Minimalist Program as outlined in Chomsky (1993, 1995). To provide a comprehensive analysis for sentential negation in Arabic, six Arabic dialects are studied, namely…