Lisa deMena Travis

Biographic Data

ID5657527
NAMELisa deMena Travis
GIVEN NAMESLisa deMena
FAMILY NAMETravis
SIGNATURETRAVIS L D
AFFILIATIONSMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-6955-8833
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS53
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Pronominal deficiency: A view from Malagasy

    Open AccessIman Paul, Lisa deMena TravisARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…2022

    Various proposals have been made in the literature, arguing that bound pronouns are, in some sense, deficient. This article tests this hypothesis with Malagasy pronouns, specifically in the context of Zribi-Hertz and Mbolatianavalona's (1999) claim that Malagasy pronouns may be bound only when they are missing the NumP layer of DP. Zribi-Hertz and Mbolatianavalona show further that other syntactic properties are also attached to the lack of NumP.…

  • Phonological evidence for morpho-syntactic structure in Athapaskan

    Harold Goad, Heather Goad et al.ARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2021

    Athapaskan verbal morphology appears to violate the Mirror Principle in multiple ways and, thus, the ordering of affixes in these languages has resisted a straightforward analysis. We adopt a new morphological tool of Iterative Root Prefixation, which allows for a more direct mapping from syntax to morphology in languages of this profile. Apparent violations of affix ordering that remain, namely the puzzling placement of the transitive and causat…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity

    Jessica Coon, Diane Massam et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Ergativity2017

  • Formal Issues in Austronesian Linguistics

    Iman Paul, I Paul et al.BOOKFormal Issues in Austronesian…2013

  • Inner Aspect: The Articulation of VP

    Open AccessLisa deMena TravisBOOKInner Aspect2010

  • Bahasa Indonesia: A window on parameters

    Open AccessLisa deMena TravisARTICLELingua2007References: 5

  • Voice Morphology in Malagasy as Clitic Left Dislocation or Through the Looking Glass: Malagasy in Wonderland

    Lisa deMena TravisCHAPTERClause Structure and Adjuncts in…2006

  • Derived Objects in Malagasy

    Lisa deMena TravisCHAPTERObjects and Other Subjects2001

  • Theta-Positions and Binding in Balinese and Malagasy

    Open AccessLisa deMena TravisARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…1998

    In this article, an argument is made for representing theta-positions structurally through a UTAH-like mapping onto articulated VP structures. Further, an argument is made for giving these positions a distinct status. It is argued, using data from binding in Balinese and Malagasy, that binding may be sensitive to theta-positions (T-positions), which are a subset of A-positions. Specs of lexical categories must be T-positions, Specs of functional …

  • Events, Times, and Mohawk Verbal Inflection

    Open AccessMark C Baker, Mark Baker et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…1998

    The Mohawk tense-mood-aspect system has many “irregularities” that seem to require a powerful morphological component distinct from syntax. Nevertheless, it is shown that most of these “irregularities” can be explained in syntactic and semantic terms, once the right lexical entries are given. This result is achieved by making two assumptions of general interest: (1) mood is analyzed as the verbal equivalent of specifity in the NP system, and (2) …

  • Mood as Verbal Definiteness in a "Tenseless" Language

    Open AccessMark C Baker, Mark Baker et al.ARTICLENatural Language Semantics1997Cited by: 5References: 13

  • The Case Filter and Licensing of Empty K

    Open AccessLisa Travis, Lisa deMena Travis et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…1992

    In this paper, we will investigate certain phenomena which appear sensitive to particular conditions of adjacency and provide an explanation of these conditions in terms of syntactic structure and principles defined over such structure. Two interesting results which follow from such an explanation are: (i) the Case Filter given in (1) below, which stipulates that phonetically realized NPs must receive Case, may be subsumed under the Empty Categor…

  • The Acquisition of Wh-Question Formation by Malagasy Learners of English: Evidence for Universal Grammar

    Open AccessLydia White, Lisa Travis et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…1992

    In investigations of the question of whether or not Universal Grammar (UG) is available in non-primary language acquisition, a number of researchers have tried to isolate situations where the way principles of UG operate in the first language (L1) could not help the learner acquire the relevant properties of the second language (L2). If learners show evidence of acquiring properties of the L2 that could not be acquired from the input alone and co…

  • Spec of IP and spec of VP: Two subjects in Austronesian languages

    Open AccessEithne Guilfoyle, Henrietta Hung et al.ARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…1992Cited by: 48References: 8

  • Two quirks of structure: Non-projecting heads and the Mirror Image Principle

    Open AccessLisa deMena TravisARTICLEJournal of Linguistics1992References: 1

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  • Externalization of Arguments in Malayo-Polynesian Languages

    Lisa Travis, Lisa deMena Travis et al.ARTICLEThe Linguistic Review1982