Richard S Kayne
Biographic Data
| ID | 737671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard S Kayne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kayne |
| SIGNATURE | KAYNE R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9203-0850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hypercomplex Inversion and the Status of Expletive Pronouns
French hypercomplex inversion can be used as a probe into the question whether or not the language faculty countenances the existence of true expletive pronouns, i.e. pronouns that make no interpretive contribution of any kind. The conclusion is that there are no expletive pronouns (in any language) in the strict sense of the term
On the why of NP-Deletion
NP-deletion is an instance of movement involving a silent or pronounced resumptive pronoun
Notes on Expletive There
Sentences with the verb exist and with a lexical DP in subject position show no definiteness effect. This suggests that the definiteness effect is keyed in English to the presence of expletive there . More strongly put, a definiteness effect is invariably found whenever expletive there (or a counterpart of it in other languages, whether pronounced or not) is present. This effect may in some languages be limited to the case of unstressed pronouns.…
Comparative syntax
Having 'Need' and Needing 'Have
A survey of a number of the world's languages reveals that only those languages that have a transitive verb used to express possession (i.e., Have-languages) also have a transitive verb 'need'. No Be-language lacking a transitive verb for possession has a transitive verb 'need'. This generalization suggests a Hale and Keyser ( 1993 , 2002 )-style incorporation approach, whereby nominal 'need' incorporates to an unpronounced verbal HAVE, yielding …
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles
This chapter examines parametric variation within the nominal domain and shows that crosslinguistic variation across a variety of nominal constructions can be linked to a single parameter: the presence versus absence of an overt determiner in French versus Italian. Drawing on the determiner phrase hypothesis and remnant movement, it compares three structures in French and Italian: superlatives, which-phrases with a silent noun, and mass nouns/par…
The Scandinavian Languages
Antisymmetry and the lexicon
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Several, few and many
Movement and Silence
This book presents a collection of recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. It focuses on both comparative syntax, which uses differences between languages as a new and fine-grained tool for illuminating properties of the human language faculty, and antisymmetry, a restrictive proposal concerning the set of structures available to the language faculty. The essays included in this book address a series of que…
Here and There
Locative 'here' and 'there' are parallel to 'this here place' and 'that there place' (which contain demonstrative 'here' and 'there') except that locative 'here' and 'there' have (in the spirit of Katz and Postal (1964)) an unpronounced counterpart of 'place', and an unpronounced determiner instead of 'this'/'that'. The non-locative 'there' of sentences like 'He spoke thereof (widely found in Germanic) is also, when looked at from the right persp…
Parameters and universals
Facets of Romance Past Participle Agreement
It is usual to say that in (2) and (3), the past participle agrees with the clitic or Wh-phrase, much as the auxiliary ‘a’ in (1)-(3) is said to agree with the subject NP ‘Paul’. We shall argue, however, that this parallelism is only partially valid and that there is a significant distinction to be drawn between the two types of agreement, namely that although the finite auxiliary does agree directly with its subject, the past participle in (2) a…
On The Left Edge in UG: A Reply to Mccloskey
Overt vs. Covert Movements
In a number of cases (involving, e.g., negation, only , reverse scope of some and every , ACD) where covert (LF) phrasal movement has been postulated, it is possible and advantageous to dispense with covert movement (including feature raising) and replace it with a combination of overt movements of phonetically realized phrases. The strongest interpretation of this conclusion is that the cases explicitly considered are typical. UG leaves no choic…
Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection
There is no auxiliary selection rule. ‘Have’ is identical to ‘be’ but for the incorporation of an abstract preposition (cf. Freeze (1992). The alternation is to be understood largely in terms of properties of the participial clause complement‐whether it is full or reduced, whether AGR‐S raises or not, whether Spec, AGR‐O is moved through or not, how many arguments the V has that need to be Case‐licensed. Primarily Romance languages are considered…
Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing
Facets of Romance past participle agreement
Connectedness and binary branching
De certaines différences entre le français et l'anglais
Kayne Richard S., Haïk Isabelle. De certaines différences entre le français et l'anglais. In: Langages, 14e année, n°60, 1980. Syntaxe générative et syntaxe comparée, sous la direction de Alain Rouveret. pp. 47-64
French Syntax: The Transformational Cycle
Overt vs. Covert Movements
In a number of cases (involving, e.g., negation, only , reverse scope of some and every , ACD) where covert (LF) phrasal movement has been postulated, it is possible and advantageous to dispense with covert movement (including feature raising) and replace it with a combination of overt movements of phonetically realized phrases. The strongest interpretation of this conclusion is that the cases explicitly considered are typical. UG leaves no choic…
Antisymmetry and the lexicon
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Having 'Need' and Needing 'Have
A survey of a number of the world's languages reveals that only those languages that have a transitive verb used to express possession (i.e., Have-languages) also have a transitive verb 'need'. No Be-language lacking a transitive verb for possession has a transitive verb 'need'. This generalization suggests a Hale and Keyser ( 1993 , 2002 )-style incorporation approach, whereby nominal 'need' incorporates to an unpronounced verbal HAVE, yielding …
Several, few and many
Comparative syntax
On The Left Edge in UG: A Reply to Mccloskey
De certaines différences entre le français et l'anglais
Kayne Richard S., Haïk Isabelle. De certaines différences entre le français et l'anglais. In: Langages, 14e année, n°60, 1980. Syntaxe générative et syntaxe comparée, sous la direction de Alain Rouveret. pp. 47-64
French Syntax: The Transformational Cycle
De certaines différences entre le français et l'anglais
Kayne Richard S., Haïk Isabelle. De certaines différences entre le français et l'anglais. In: Langages, 14e année, n°60, 1980. Syntaxe générative et syntaxe comparée, sous la direction de Alain Rouveret. pp. 47-64
French Syntax: The Transformational Cycle
Connectedness and binary branching
Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing
Facets of Romance past participle agreement
Toward a Modular Theory of Auxiliary Selection
There is no auxiliary selection rule. ‘Have’ is identical to ‘be’ but for the incorporation of an abstract preposition (cf. Freeze (1992). The alternation is to be understood largely in terms of properties of the participial clause complement‐whether it is full or reduced, whether AGR‐S raises or not, whether Spec, AGR‐O is moved through or not, how many arguments the V has that need to be Case‐licensed. Primarily Romance languages are considered…
Overt vs. Covert Movements
In a number of cases (involving, e.g., negation, only , reverse scope of some and every , ACD) where covert (LF) phrasal movement has been postulated, it is possible and advantageous to dispense with covert movement (including feature raising) and replace it with a combination of overt movements of phonetically realized phrases. The strongest interpretation of this conclusion is that the cases explicitly considered are typical. UG leaves no choic…
Parameters and universals
Facets of Romance Past Participle Agreement
It is usual to say that in (2) and (3), the past participle agrees with the clitic or Wh-phrase, much as the auxiliary ‘a’ in (1)-(3) is said to agree with the subject NP ‘Paul’. We shall argue, however, that this parallelism is only partially valid and that there is a significant distinction to be drawn between the two types of agreement, namely that although the finite auxiliary does agree directly with its subject, the past participle in (2) a…
On The Left Edge in UG: A Reply to Mccloskey
Here and There
Locative 'here' and 'there' are parallel to 'this here place' and 'that there place' (which contain demonstrative 'here' and 'there') except that locative 'here' and 'there' have (in the spirit of Katz and Postal (1964)) an unpronounced counterpart of 'place', and an unpronounced determiner instead of 'this'/'that'. The non-locative 'there' of sentences like 'He spoke thereof (widely found in Germanic) is also, when looked at from the right persp…
Movement and Silence
This book presents a collection of recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. It focuses on both comparative syntax, which uses differences between languages as a new and fine-grained tool for illuminating properties of the human language faculty, and antisymmetry, a restrictive proposal concerning the set of structures available to the language faculty. The essays included in this book address a series of que…
Several, few and many
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles
This chapter examines parametric variation within the nominal domain and shows that crosslinguistic variation across a variety of nominal constructions can be linked to a single parameter: the presence versus absence of an overt determiner in French versus Italian. Drawing on the determiner phrase hypothesis and remnant movement, it compares three structures in French and Italian: superlatives, which-phrases with a silent noun, and mass nouns/par…
The Scandinavian Languages
Antisymmetry and the lexicon
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Having 'Need' and Needing 'Have
A survey of a number of the world's languages reveals that only those languages that have a transitive verb used to express possession (i.e., Have-languages) also have a transitive verb 'need'. No Be-language lacking a transitive verb for possession has a transitive verb 'need'. This generalization suggests a Hale and Keyser ( 1993 , 2002 )-style incorporation approach, whereby nominal 'need' incorporates to an unpronounced verbal HAVE, yielding …
Comparative syntax
Notes on Expletive There
Sentences with the verb exist and with a lexical DP in subject position show no definiteness effect. This suggests that the definiteness effect is keyed in English to the presence of expletive there . More strongly put, a definiteness effect is invariably found whenever expletive there (or a counterpart of it in other languages, whether pronounced or not) is present. This effect may in some languages be limited to the case of unstressed pronouns.…
On the why of NP-Deletion
NP-deletion is an instance of movement involving a silent or pronounced resumptive pronoun
Hypercomplex Inversion and the Status of Expletive Pronouns
French hypercomplex inversion can be used as a probe into the question whether or not the language faculty countenances the existence of true expletive pronouns, i.e. pronouns that make no interpretive contribution of any kind. The conclusion is that there are no expletive pronouns (in any language) in the strict sense of the term
Linguistics (17 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (7 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Comparative and general Grammar (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works)