David Erschler

Biographic Data

ID1720945
NAMEDavid Erschler
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEErschler
SIGNATUREERSCHLER D
AFFILIATIONSBen-Gurion University of the Negev
ORCID0000-0001-6977-896X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Iterated D-layers in a nominal and Multiple Case Exponence

    Open AccessDavid ErschlerARTICLEGlossa a journal of general…2022

    The paper addresses a typologically unusual instance of Multiple Exponence: some wh-based items in Digor Ossetic, an agglutinative Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus, exhibit double case marking in the plural. For example, the allative plural of the indefinite ka-dɐr who-INDEFINITE ‘someone’ is kɐ-mɐ-dɐr-tɐ-mɐ who-ALLATIVE-INDEFINITE-PLURAL-ALLATIVE. I propose an analysis of this phenomenon in the framework of Distributed Morphology.…

  • Flexible syntax–prosody mapping of Intonational Phrases in the context of varying verb height

    Open AccessLena Borise, David ErschlerARTICLEPhonology2022

    This paper provides new evidence in support of the hypothesis that the syntax–prosody mapping of Intonational Phrases is flexible (Hamlaoui and Szendrői 2015). In the traditional ‘rigid’ approaches, Intonational Phrases are taken to map onto particular syntactic projections. In contrast, in the ‘flexible’ approach, the Intonational Phrase corresponds to the highest projection of the verb (HVP). Accordingly, the ‘flexible’ approach predicts that t…

  • A dedicated nominal singular morpheme without singulative semantics

    Open AccessDavid ErschlerARTICLEMorphology2022References: 53

  • A new argument for existence of the DP in languages without articles

    Open AccessDavid ErschlerARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2019Cited by: 1References: 2

    In this squib, I provide evidence of a novel type in favor of the existence of the DP in previously undiscussed articleless languages: I show that a comitative preposition in the Ossetic languages cannot attach to nominal expressions that would be analyzed as DPs in better studied languages. On the other hand, nominal expressions that it can attach to are of the kinds that would be analyzed as bare NumPs

  • Suspended affixation in Ossetic and the structure of the syntax-morphology interface

    Open AccessDavid ErschlerARTICLEActa Linguistica Hungarica2012

    I describe and analyze suspended affixation (a situation when an affix only appears on the rightmost coordinand, but takes scope over all the coordinands) of case markers in Ossetic. Based on how suspended affixation interacts with allomorphy and certain case conflicts, I propose that suspended affixation arises due to phonological deletion of exponents, and that semantic information is still available at this stage. I speculate that it is this s…

  • "From preverbal focus to preverbal "left periphery

    Open AccessDavid ErschlerARTICLELingua2012Cited by: 3References: 16

  • Possession marking in Ossetic

    Open AccessDavid ErschlerARTICLELinguistic Typology2009

    In this article, I observe that Ossetic has a system of possessive pronouns with two features untypical for Iranian languages. First, along with genitive forms of full pronouns, it has a full paradigm of possessive proclitics. Second, while having accusative enclitics, it lacks possessive enclitics. I argue that the former trait is likely to have developed under West Caucasian influence. As for the absence of possessive enclitics, it is a nearly …