This thesis is concerned with a general description of relative clauses in Jakarta Indonesian based on naturalistic and experimental data from Jakarta Indonesian-speaking children and adults. One interesting aspect of relative clauses in Jakarta Indonesian is the peculiar charac…
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This dissertation investigates the prosody-syntax interface in two Hebrew complex nominals. Their meaning is identical but their syntax and phonology differ. The free state (FS) nominal is similar to English (e.g., the coach of the wrestler ). The construct state (CS) nominal la…
Odlin (2003) observes that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the importance of L1 transfer in second-language acquisition (henceforth SLA). To test whether L1 transfer is a significant factor in SLA of English relative clauses (RCs), an English-language acceptabi…
On Resumptive Pronouns in Slavic is a first step toward a generalized theory of pronouns that accounts for the behavior of both ordinary and resumptive pronouns. I adopt the definition of resumption proposed by Boeckx (2003) who analyzes resumptive pronouns as pronouns stranded …
This study investigated the question of whether age has an effect on the ability to reset a parameter whose value differs in the L1 and L2. Twenty-one children and twenty-one adults whose native language is Arabic were given an English judgment task involving grammatical and ung…
Turkish relative clauses display a subject/non-subject asymmetry. The subject relative (SR) is licensed for relativization from [Spec, TP]. Whereas the non-subject relative (NSR) is never acceptable for subject relativization, the SR is licensed in clauses where there is no exte…