Paul Law
Biographic Data
| ID | 736026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Law |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Law |
| SIGNATURE | LAW P |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4699-427X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preposition Stranding
This chapter surveys the phenomena of preposition stranding primarily in Romance and Germanic languages, reviewing the literature on the phenomenon spanning more than 40 years of research since the late 1960s. It discusses the insights and problems of three major theories of preposition stranding: (i) the reanalysis account, according to which preposition stranding results from the verb and the preposition being reanalyzed as one morphological un…
Syntactic Tense from a Comparative Syntax Perspective
Lin (2010) argues that an analysis without a Tense category for Chinese can better explain four syntactic properties of the language than an analysis with it: (a) no copula verb, (b) no expletive subject, (c) possibly no finite vs. nonfinite distinction, and (d) possibly no case-driven A-movement. In this article, we consider data from a variety of languages as well as some Chinese data that Lin does not take into account. We show that there is n…
The syntax of Tagalog relative clauses
Four superficially different types of Tagalog relative clauses (head-initial, head-final and internally headed and headless) are argued to have the same D CP underlying structure and derivation. It is suggested that the head noun raises to SpecCP
The negation mou5 in Guangdong Yue
Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages
Some syntactic and semantic properties of the existential construction in Malagasy
The wh/q-polarity adverb daodi in Mandarin Chinese and the syntax of focus
This article argues that the distribution of the wh/q-polarity adverb daodi in Chinese cannot be given an analysis in which it moves at LF. It shows that daodi is subject to a structural and locality constraint similar to that for the focus marker shi. They both have the scope-restricting function on the A-not-A predicate or the wh-phrase it is associated with. The long-distance and island effects which daodi apparently exhibits are not due to it…
The syntactic structure of the cleft construction in Malagasy
Adverbs in A-not-A Questions in Mandarin Chinese
Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory: An illustration with pronominal clitics
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent grounds, limits the class of issues and possible explanations for grammatical properties of specific linguistic expressions. I argue that this is not simply a consequence of a specific conception o…
Hisatsugu Kitahara, Elementary operations and optimal derivations . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xv+140
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Papers on syntax of clefts, pseudo-clefts, relative clauses, and the semantics of present perfect
ZASPiL 10 contains 8 articles
Papers of the Conference on 'The word as a phonetic unit': ZAS, Berlin, October 22 - 23, 1997
ZASPiL 11 contains 15 articles. Three notes on the table of contents:1) In the table of contents of the printed volume, Christoph Draxler's article on page 61 is listed under the title “Datenbanksysteme für gesprochene Sprachkorpora”. However, as the article on page 61 is entitled “Introduction to the PhonDat database for spoken German”, this title version has been adopted for the published online version.2) In the table of contents of the printe…
Papers on morphology
ZASPiL 13 contains 8 articles. PrefaceMost of these papers were given at the meeting 'Historische Linguistik und Grammatik-theorien II' which was held on December 12 and 13, 1997, at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. It was the annual meeting of the Project 'Diachronische Adäquatheitstheorien an Grammatiktheorien' which has existed since 1996 under the leadership of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel of the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprach…
Papers on focus and ellipsis
ZASPiL 9 contains 6 articles
Papers on syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition
ZASPiL 8 contains 9 articles
Papers on phonetics and phonology
ZASPiL 7 contains 8 articles
On the adjacency constraint on case-assignment
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Papers on syntax
ZASPiL 5 contains 8 articles
Papers on clitics
ZASPiL 6 contains a preface on page 1 by Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) and 13 articles
Papers on syntax and phonology
FAS Papers in Linguistics 3 contains 5 articles
Papers on syntax and learning
FAS Papers in Linguistics 4 contains 7 articles
Papers on syntax and semantics
Prefatory NoteOn 1 January 1992, the Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typology und Universalienforschung (= FAS) [Research Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals] was set up as one of seven newly founded research centres for the humanities. In line with the recommendations of the Scientific Council of Germany, the FAS is conceived of as an independent institute of innovative basic research in linguistics havi…
Papers on syntax and morphology
FAS Working Papers in Linguistics 2 contains 9 articles
On learning and Grammatical Theory
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The syntactic structure of the cleft construction in Malagasy
Verb Movement, Expletive Replacement, and Head Government
Some syntactic and semantic properties of the existential construction in Malagasy
Syntactic Tense from a Comparative Syntax Perspective
Lin (2010) argues that an analysis without a Tense category for Chinese can better explain four syntactic properties of the language than an analysis with it: (a) no copula verb, (b) no expletive subject, (c) possibly no finite vs. nonfinite distinction, and (d) possibly no case-driven A-movement. In this article, we consider data from a variety of languages as well as some Chinese data that Lin does not take into account. We show that there is n…
The syntax of Tagalog relative clauses
Four superficially different types of Tagalog relative clauses (head-initial, head-final and internally headed and headless) are argued to have the same D CP underlying structure and derivation. It is suggested that the head noun raises to SpecCP
Verb Movement, Expletive Replacement, and Head Government
On Null Subjects and Null Arguments
In the literature on Null Subject Languages (NSLs) since Rizzi (1982), the three properties that are commonly thought to be connected are (i) the richness of inflectional morphology, (ii) free subject inversion, and (iii) the COMP-trace effect. The connection between them is that if a language (e.g., Italian) has the option of having a null subject (NS) pronominal pro in subject position (i.e., SpecIP) as a result of having rich inflectional (i.e…
Perspectives on Phrase Structure: Heads and Licensing
Part 1 Heads: a case for emerging functional categories, J. Kornfilt two functional categories in noun phrases - evidence from modern Hebrew, E. Ritter on the position of subjects, H. Contreras phrase structure of ellipsis in English, A. Lobeck alignment of arguments in adjective phrases, T. Stowell. Part 2 Licensing: syntactic licensing and sub-categorization, S.D. Rothstein adjunct-predicate licensing and D-structure, T.R. Rapoport a phrase str…
A Note on Theme -Serial Verb Constructions in Haitian
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Meaning and Grammar: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Papers on syntax and phonology
FAS Papers in Linguistics 3 contains 5 articles
Papers on syntax and learning
FAS Papers in Linguistics 4 contains 7 articles
Papers on syntax and semantics
Prefatory NoteOn 1 January 1992, the Forschungsschwerpunkt Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typology und Universalienforschung (= FAS) [Research Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals] was set up as one of seven newly founded research centres for the humanities. In line with the recommendations of the Scientific Council of Germany, the FAS is conceived of as an independent institute of innovative basic research in linguistics havi…
Papers on syntax and morphology
FAS Working Papers in Linguistics 2 contains 9 articles
On learning and Grammatical Theory
...
Dialektsyntax
Recent Developments in Germanic Linguistics
Papers on phonetics and phonology
ZASPiL 7 contains 8 articles
On the adjacency constraint on case-assignment
...
Papers on syntax
ZASPiL 5 contains 8 articles
Papers on clitics
ZASPiL 6 contains a preface on page 1 by Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) and 13 articles
Papers on focus and ellipsis
ZASPiL 9 contains 6 articles
Papers on syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition
ZASPiL 8 contains 9 articles
Papers on syntax of clefts, pseudo-clefts, relative clauses, and the semantics of present perfect
ZASPiL 10 contains 8 articles
Papers of the Conference on 'The word as a phonetic unit': ZAS, Berlin, October 22 - 23, 1997
ZASPiL 11 contains 15 articles. Three notes on the table of contents:1) In the table of contents of the printed volume, Christoph Draxler's article on page 61 is listed under the title “Datenbanksysteme für gesprochene Sprachkorpora”. However, as the article on page 61 is entitled “Introduction to the PhonDat database for spoken German”, this title version has been adopted for the published online version.2) In the table of contents of the printe…
Papers on morphology
ZASPiL 13 contains 8 articles. PrefaceMost of these papers were given at the meeting 'Historische Linguistik und Grammatik-theorien II' which was held on December 12 and 13, 1997, at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin. It was the annual meeting of the Project 'Diachronische Adäquatheitstheorien an Grammatiktheorien' which has existed since 1996 under the leadership of Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel of the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprach…
Hisatsugu Kitahara, Elementary operations and optimal derivations . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xv+140
An abstract 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
Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory: An illustration with pronominal clitics
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent grounds, limits the class of issues and possible explanations for grammatical properties of specific linguistic expressions. I argue that this is not simply a consequence of a specific conception o…
Adverbs in A-not-A Questions in Mandarin Chinese
The syntactic structure of the cleft construction in Malagasy
Philosophy (28 works) · Linguistics (27 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (16 works) · Syntax (14 works) · Natural language processing (10 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Verb (7 works) · History (6 works)