Michelle Sheehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Sheehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheehan |
| SIGNATURE | SHEEHAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8072-4847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Clitic placement and the Anti-V2 effect in European Portuguese: Insights from uninflected verbs
Clitic placement with European Portuguese uninflected verbs is problematic for prosodic analyses. While ‘proclisis triggers’ give rise to obligatory proclisis with inflected verbs, they often lead to optional proclisis/enclisis with uninflected verbs ( Raposo & Uriagereka 2008 ), except for aspectual/quantificational adverbials with head-like behaviour ( Martins 2013a ). These patterns provide support for a syntactic ‘Anti-V2 requirement’, whereb…
Passives of Causatives and Perception Verbs in Italian
This paper argues for a phase-based analysis of passivization patterns with causative (fare ‘make’) and perception verbs (vedere ‘see’, guardare ‘watch’) in standard Italian, based on corpus data and acceptability judgements. We show that Italian (long) passives face clear restrictions sensitive to complement type and matrix verb, and argue that, as in English and Brazilian Portuguese, passivation is blocked where a causative/perception verb sele…
Multilingual grammars: The next frontier in comparative syntax
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Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish
Linguistics is conspicuously absent from language teaching in UK schools. A‐level cultural topics cover a range of themes such as cyber‐society, cultural heritage and multiculturalism, but the approach taken to these topics is not informed by linguistics. In previous work, we have argued that this is an unfortunate omission not only because linguistics is appealing to many language students and perceived by them to be useful, but also because the…
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account
To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that A-movement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky…
A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire-infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is "transitive." We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree. On our approach, transitivity-sensitive dative arises where a probe agrees with a DP that requires case licensing, having previously probed (potentially defectively) a closer XP …
The Development of Exceptional Case Marking in Romance with a Particular Focus on French
This paper traces the development of so-called Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) under perception, permissive and causative verbs in Romance. Synchronically, we can observe various patterns in the distribution of ECM complements under these verbs. In Portuguese and Spanish, ECM is often possible under all permissive and causative verbs, whereas in French, Catalan and Italian it is usually restricted to perception and permissive verbs. A detail that …
Movement from the Double Object Construction Is Not Fully Symmetrical
A movement asymmetry arises in some languages that are otherwise symmetrical for both A- and Ā-movement in the double object construction, including Norwegian, North-West British English, and a range of Bantu languages including Zulu and Lubukusu: a Theme object can be Ā-moved out of a Recipient (Goal) passive, but not vice versa. Our explanation of this asymmetry is based on phase theory- more specifically, a stricter version of the Phase Impene…
Nominal licensing in caseless languages
This paper provides evidence for a kind of nominal licensing (Vergnaud licensing) in a number of morphologically caseless languages. Recent work on Bantu languages has suggested that abstract Case or nominal licensing should be parameterised (Diercks 2012, Van der Wal 2015a). With this is mind, we critically discuss the status of Vergnaud licensing in six languages lacking morphological case. While Luganda appears to systematically lack a Vergnau…
Forthcoming articles
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Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order
The introduction provides an overview of the study of word order, in particular disharmonic word order from ancient times to the present, taking into account both functional and generative approaches. This places the contributions in the volume in a solid historical context and reveals many recurrent themes, despite apparently radical changes in the ways in which word order has been viewed by linguists of different theoretical persuasions. It als…
Theoretical Approaches To Disharmonic Word Order
This title considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from several 'disharmonic' and typologically distinct languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Basque, French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans.
Some Implications of a Copy Theory of Labeling
A copy theory of labeling makes interesting empirical predictions when combined with a revised version of Kayne's (1994) Linear Correspondence Axiom and a category-based version of c-command. First, it forces the pronunciation of the highest copy in a chain, all else being equal, without the need for copy deletion. Second, it predicts certain differences between underlying and derived head-initial specifiers and between head-final and head-initia…
Introduction: Particles through a modern syntactic lens
Extraposition and antisymmetry
‘Extraposition’ is a cover term for two distinct phenomena (cf. also Fox & Nissenbaum 1999; Kiss 2005). The first, which I assume to be derived by parallel construal (following Koster 2000), targets only RCs, blocks reconstruction of the extraposed constituent to the base position of the source, and as such has the effect of bleeding condition C. The second, which I claim is derived via scattered deletion, targets post-head complements/modifiers,…
‘Free’ inversion in Romance and the Null Subject Parameter
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Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory
Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. Although still widely assumed, the parametric theory of variation has in recent years been subject to re-evaluation and critique. The Null Subject Parameter, which determines among other things whether or not a language allows the suppression of subject pronouns, is one of the best-known and most widely discussed examp…
Some Implications of a Copy Theory of Labeling
A copy theory of labeling makes interesting empirical predictions when combined with a revised version of Kayne's (1994) Linear Correspondence Axiom and a category-based version of c-command. First, it forces the pronunciation of the highest copy in a chain, all else being equal, without the need for copy deletion. Second, it predicts certain differences between underlying and derived head-initial specifiers and between head-final and head-initia…
Movement from the Double Object Construction Is Not Fully Symmetrical
A movement asymmetry arises in some languages that are otherwise symmetrical for both A- and Ā-movement in the double object construction, including Norwegian, North-West British English, and a range of Bantu languages including Zulu and Lubukusu: a Theme object can be Ā-moved out of a Recipient (Goal) passive, but not vice versa. Our explanation of this asymmetry is based on phase theory- more specifically, a stricter version of the Phase Impene…
Nominal licensing in caseless languages
This paper provides evidence for a kind of nominal licensing (Vergnaud licensing) in a number of morphologically caseless languages. Recent work on Bantu languages has suggested that abstract Case or nominal licensing should be parameterised (Diercks 2012, Van der Wal 2015a). With this is mind, we critically discuss the status of Vergnaud licensing in six languages lacking morphological case. While Luganda appears to systematically lack a Vergnau…
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account
To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that A-movement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky…
‘Free’ inversion in Romance and the Null Subject Parameter
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory
Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. Although still widely assumed, the parametric theory of variation has in recent years been subject to re-evaluation and critique. The Null Subject Parameter, which determines among other things whether or not a language allows the suppression of subject pronouns, is one of the best-known and most widely discussed examp…
Extraposition and antisymmetry
‘Extraposition’ is a cover term for two distinct phenomena (cf. also Fox & Nissenbaum 1999; Kiss 2005). The first, which I assume to be derived by parallel construal (following Koster 2000), targets only RCs, blocks reconstruction of the extraposed constituent to the base position of the source, and as such has the effect of bleeding condition C. The second, which I claim is derived via scattered deletion, targets post-head complements/modifiers,…
Introduction: Particles through a modern syntactic lens
Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order
The introduction provides an overview of the study of word order, in particular disharmonic word order from ancient times to the present, taking into account both functional and generative approaches. This places the contributions in the volume in a solid historical context and reveals many recurrent themes, despite apparently radical changes in the ways in which word order has been viewed by linguists of different theoretical persuasions. It als…
Theoretical Approaches To Disharmonic Word Order
This title considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from several 'disharmonic' and typologically distinct languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Basque, French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans.
Some Implications of a Copy Theory of Labeling
A copy theory of labeling makes interesting empirical predictions when combined with a revised version of Kayne's (1994) Linear Correspondence Axiom and a category-based version of c-command. First, it forces the pronunciation of the highest copy in a chain, all else being equal, without the need for copy deletion. Second, it predicts certain differences between underlying and derived head-initial specifiers and between head-final and head-initia…
Forthcoming articles
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Nominal licensing in caseless languages
This paper provides evidence for a kind of nominal licensing (Vergnaud licensing) in a number of morphologically caseless languages. Recent work on Bantu languages has suggested that abstract Case or nominal licensing should be parameterised (Diercks 2012, Van der Wal 2015a). With this is mind, we critically discuss the status of Vergnaud licensing in six languages lacking morphological case. While Luganda appears to systematically lack a Vergnau…
Movement from the Double Object Construction Is Not Fully Symmetrical
A movement asymmetry arises in some languages that are otherwise symmetrical for both A- and Ā-movement in the double object construction, including Norwegian, North-West British English, and a range of Bantu languages including Zulu and Lubukusu: a Theme object can be Ā-moved out of a Recipient (Goal) passive, but not vice versa. Our explanation of this asymmetry is based on phase theory- more specifically, a stricter version of the Phase Impene…
The Development of Exceptional Case Marking in Romance with a Particular Focus on French
This paper traces the development of so-called Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) under perception, permissive and causative verbs in Romance. Synchronically, we can observe various patterns in the distribution of ECM complements under these verbs. In Portuguese and Spanish, ECM is often possible under all permissive and causative verbs, whereas in French, Catalan and Italian it is usually restricted to perception and permissive verbs. A detail that …
A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire-infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is "transitive." We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree. On our approach, transitivity-sensitive dative arises where a probe agrees with a DP that requires case licensing, having previously probed (potentially defectively) a closer XP …
Multilingual grammars: The next frontier in comparative syntax
Preview this article: Multilingual grammars, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lab.23061.she-1.gif
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish
Linguistics is conspicuously absent from language teaching in UK schools. A‐level cultural topics cover a range of themes such as cyber‐society, cultural heritage and multiculturalism, but the approach taken to these topics is not informed by linguistics. In previous work, we have argued that this is an unfortunate omission not only because linguistics is appealing to many language students and perceived by them to be useful, but also because the…
Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account
To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that A-movement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky…
Passives of Causatives and Perception Verbs in Italian
This paper argues for a phase-based analysis of passivization patterns with causative (fare ‘make’) and perception verbs (vedere ‘see’, guardare ‘watch’) in standard Italian, based on corpus data and acceptability judgements. We show that Italian (long) passives face clear restrictions sensitive to complement type and matrix verb, and argue that, as in English and Brazilian Portuguese, passivation is blocked where a causative/perception verb sele…
Clitic placement and the Anti-V2 effect in European Portuguese: Insights from uninflected verbs
Clitic placement with European Portuguese uninflected verbs is problematic for prosodic analyses. While ‘proclisis triggers’ give rise to obligatory proclisis with inflected verbs, they often lead to optional proclisis/enclisis with uninflected verbs ( Raposo & Uriagereka 2008 ), except for aspectual/quantificational adverbials with head-like behaviour ( Martins 2013a ). These patterns provide support for a syntactic ‘Anti-V2 requirement’, whereb…
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