Syntactic Theory and Research

New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Author: Middleton, John

Title: Diagnosing negation in Polynesian

Keywords: negation, predicate negation, Polynesian, apparent raising, Tokelauan, Samoan

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New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Author: Hewett, Matthew

Title: The precedence component in intervention effects: evidence from English passives

Keywords: intervention, precedence, passive, search algorithm, constituency, verb phrase structure

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New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Author: Cinque, Guglielmo

Title: The superiority of a movement approach to Greenberg’s Universal 20 (a reply to Dryer 2018)

Keywords: Universal 20, word order, order of adjectives

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New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Authors: Werkmann Horvat, Ana & Birtić, Matea & Gračanin-Yuksek, Martina

Title: How does ‘do so’ do? Testing the applicability of the ‘do so’ test in Croatian

Keywords: arguments, adjuncts, ‘do so’ test, Croatian

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New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Author: Manzini, M. Rita

Title: Left–right asymmetries in Italian adjectives: partial order and phases

Keywords: adjectives, order, phases, degrees, plural

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New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Authors: Bruening, Benjamin & Tollan, Rebecca

Title: Reconstruction in wh movement: the view from lexical reactivation

Keywords: reconstruction, wh movement, lexical reactivation, interference

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New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Author: Keine, Stefan & Bhatt, Rajesh

Title: Crossover asymmetries

Keywords: scrambling, weak crossover, strong crossover, secondary crossover, Condition C, Hindi-Urdu, case, late merge, multidominance

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An experimental-syntactic take on long passive in Dutch: unraveling the patterns underlying its (un)acceptability This article provides experimental evidence for the existence of long passive in Dutch and proposes a syntactic analysis of the findings. Long passive, a control-like complementation configuration wit...

New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Keywords: acceptability judgment, experimental syntax, individual variation, restructuring, infinitivus pro participio, implicit control

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An experimental-syntactic take on long passive in Dutch: unraveling the patterns underlying its (un)acceptability This article provides experimental evidence for the existence of long passive in Dutch and proposes a syntactic analysis of the findings. Long passive, a control-like complementation configuration wit...

New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Authors: Kovač, Iva & Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan

Title: An experimental-syntactic take on long passive in Dutch: unraveling the patterns underlying its (un)acceptability

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Mixed-identity requirements in ellipsis: the case of topic-remnant elided questions in Spanish Through a detailed examination of an understudied elliptical construction in Spanish that I dub topic-remnant elided wh-questions, I argue that certain types of ellipsis exhibit “mixed-identity” requi...

New #openaccess article on the #syntax of natural language

Author: Stigliano, Laura

Title: Mixed-identity requirements in ellipsis: the case of topic-remnant elided questions in Spanish

Keywords: ellipsis, identity, licensing, movement, Spanish

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FYI: Syntactic Theory and Research - "2025"

Announcement for the Online Launching of Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) Dear Colleagues, We are very excited to announce the launching of six inaugural papers on the new, peer reviewed, community owned, and fully open access journal Syntactic Theory and Research …

Thrilled to announce the launch of six inaugural papers in the new, peer-reviewed, community-owned, and fully diamond open-access journal Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR), published by the Open Library of Humanities:

The first ever issue of Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) is out! star-linguistics.org/articles/

STAR is the diamond #OpenAccess editorial successor to the journal Syntax. You can follow them here: @starlinguistics.bsky.social

Syntactic Theory and Research Ana Werkmann Horvat (University of Osijek), Matea Birtić (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics), Martina Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University)

Congrats to @starlinguistics.bsky.social on their inaugural issue published by @openlibhums.org ! Read it here: star-linguistics.org #OpenAccess #AcaSky