Dr. Marc Richards Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate)

Downloadable Papers

2009

  • Internal Pair-Merge: The missing mode of movement. Manuscript. To appear in J. Fortuny & Á. Gallego (eds) Spelling Out Universal Grammar, Catalan Journal of Linguistics.
  • Probing the Past: On reconciling Long-Distance Agreement with the Phase Impenetrability Condition. Manuscript. To appear in Linguistische Arbeiten.
  • Two Kinds of Variation in a Minimalist System. Manuscript.

 

2008

  • Defective Agree, Case Alternations, and the Prominence of Person. Manuscript.
  • Quirky Expletives. In Roberta d'Alessandro, Gunnar H. Hrafnbjargarson, and Susann Fischer (eds) Agreement Restrictions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 181-213. Pre-final manuscript version.

 

2007

  • A Probe-Goal Approach to Agreement and Incorporation Restrictions in Southern Tiwa. Manuscript. (With Fabian Heck.)
  • Deriving the Edge: What’s in a Phase? Manuscript.
  • Dynamic Linearization and the Shape of Phases. Linguistic Analysis 33: 209-237. (Special Issue: Dynamic Interfaces, Vol. 2; edited by Kleanthes Grohmann). Manuscript version.
  • On feature-inheritance: an argument from the Phase Impenetrability Condition. Linguistic Inquiry 38.3: 563-572. Link to first page.
  • On Object Shift, Phases, and Transitive Expletive Constructions in Germanic. In P. Pica et al (eds) Linguistic Variation Yearbook 6. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, pp. 139-159. Manuscript version.

 

2006

  • True Optionality: When the grammar doesn’t mind. In C. Boeckx (ed.) Minimalist Essays. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, pp. 35-67. Manuscript version. (With Theresa Biberauer.)
  • Weak pronouns, object shift and multiple spell-out: Evidence for phases at the PF-interface. In C. Boeckx (ed.) Minimalist Essays. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, pp. 160-181. Manuscript version.

 

2005

  • Explaining Expl. in M. den Dikken & C. Tortora (eds) The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, pp. 115-153. Manuscript version. (With Theresa Biberauer.)

 

2004

  • Ph.D. Dissertation (2004, University of Cambridge).
    Object Shift and Scrambling in North and West Germanic. A Case Study in Symmetrical Syntax.
    Abstract.

 

 

 


 

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University of Leipzig
Institute of Linguistics

Research Group:
Grammar and Processing
of Verbal Arguments

Project P5:
Argument Encoding in
Morphology and Syntax