Linguistic Inquiry Early Access Corrected Proof https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00467 (cid:2) 2022 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internazionale (CC BY 4.0) License. (Im)possible Traces Ethan Poole In this article, I argue that when movement maps onto a (cid:2)-bound variable (a “trace”), that variable must be of an individual semantic type, such as type e or type d. Così, even though

Linguistic Inquiry Early Access Corrected Proof https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00459 (cid:2) 2022 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internazionale (CC BY 4.0) License. R E M A R K S A N D R E P L I E S A¯ -Probing for the Closest DP Kenyon Branan Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine We consider the typology of attested A¯ -extraction asymmetries be-

High and Low Applicatives of Unaccusatives: Dependent Case and the Phase Marcel den Dikken The principal objective of this article is to establish a direct relationship between the structural height of the base position of the applied argu- ment and the case and promotion-to-subject patterns observed in appli- cative constructions, with particular reference to applicatives of un- accusatives. The article achieves this through an approach

Quexistentials and Focus Kees Hengeveld Sabine Iatridou Floris Roelofsen Many languages have words that can be interpreted either as question words or as existentials. We call such words quexistentials. It has been claimed in the literature (per esempio., Haida 2007) Quello, across languages, quexistentials are (UN) always focused on their interrogative interpreta- tion and (B) never focused on their existential interpretation. We refer to this as

R E M A R K S A N D R E P L I E S Category Mismatches in Coordination Vindicated Agnieszka Patejuk Adam Przepio´rkowski Bruening and Al Khalaf (2020) deny the possibility of coordination of unlike categories. They use three mechanisms to reanalyze such co- ordination as involving same categories: conjunction reduction, super- categorie, and empty heads. We show that their proposal leaves

Remarks and Replies The Puzzle of Anaphoric Bare Nouns in Mandarin: A Counterpoint to Index! Veneeta Dayal Li Julie Jiang Jenks (2018) argues that Mandarin bare NPs cannot be classified as definites simpliciter. Adopting the distinction between weak- and strong-article definites in Schwarz 2009, he proposes that Mandarin makes a lexical distinction between the two types of definites: bare nouns are weak definites, demonstratives are

S Q U I B S A N D D I S C U S S I O N SHIFTING INTERACTIONS AND COUNTERSHIFTING OPACITY: A NOTE ON OPACITY IN HARMONIC SERIALISM Ezer Rasin Abstract: This squib proposes to extend the traditional taxonomy of pairwise process interactions (which contains “feeding,” “bleeding,” “counterfeeding,” and “counterbleeding”) to include the classes “shift- ing” and “countershifting.” A process “shifts” another

R E M A R K S A N D R E P L I E S 551 Head and Dependent Marking in Clausal Possession Peter Hallman This article presents a new perspective on the derivational source for transitive verbs of possession. These are commonly postulated to be derived from a preposition expressing possession by incorporation of the preposition into an auxiliary. I reframe the

Person of Interest: Experimental Investigations into the Learnability of Person Systems Mora Maldonado Jennifer Culbertson Person systems convey the roles entities play in the context of speech (per esempio., speaker, addressee). As with other linguistic category systems, not all ways of partitioning the person space are equally likely crosslin- guistically. Different theories have been proposed to constrain the set of possible person partitions that humans can

PREDICATIVE ADVERBS: EVIDENCE FROM POLISH Agnieszka Patejuk Adam Przepio´rkowski Squibs and Discussion Abstract: This squib argues that adverbs can act as primary predicates. In Polish, a relatively large class of adverbs are frequently used in predicative constructions when the subject of predication is an InfP (infinitival phrase) or a CP referring to abstract objects: event kinds or facts. This requirement of a purely verbal rather

Remarks and Replies Correspondence between XPs and Phonological Phrases Daniel Bu¨ring Hubert Truckenbrodt Bresnan (1971, 1972) establishes an interaction between stress assign- ment and syntactic movement. We are interested in a restriction on this interaction. We argue that this restriction shows that the constraint STRESS-XP needs to be part of the syntax-prosody mapping and that it needs to be a restriction on a correspondence relation

Feature Gluttony Jessica Coon Stefan Keine This article develops a new approach to a family of hierarchy-effect- inducing configurations, with a focus on Person Case Constraint ef- fects, dative-nominative configurations, and copula constructions. The main line of approach in the recent literature is to attribute these effects to failures of (cid:2)-Agree or, more specifically, failures of nominal licen- sing or case checking. We propose that

S Q U I B S A N D D I S C U S S I O N THE ROLE OF THE ABSOLUTIVE OBJECT IN MORPHOLOGICAL ACCESSIBILITY Rebecca Tollan Abstract: This squib discusses environments in which a subject bears ergative case in the absence of an absolutive object, contrasting syn- tactically ergative languages (per esempio., Q’anjob’al) with languages in which the ergative argument cannot be

S Q U I B S A N D D I S C U S S I O N PHILIPPINE CLITIC PRONOUNS AND THE LOWER PHASE EDGE Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine Theodore Levin Abstract: Pronominal paradigms in Philippine-type Austronesian lan- guages show a robust and curious gap: in transitive clauses, pivot arguments and nonpivot agents may have bound pronominal forms, appearing as second-position clitics, but pronominal

Gender at the Edge Halldo´r A´ rmann SigurLsson This article develops an analysis of Gender whereby D-gender enters grammar as a feature variable (edge linker), without a fixed value, either probing n or scanning the context for a value. Only the latter strategy is available in pronominal gender languages such as English, as they lack n-gender, whereas both strategies are applicable in n- gender languages,

Contrasting Contrastive Left-Dislocation Explications Marcel den Dikken Bala´zs Sura´nyi Of the three logically possible approaches to contrastive left-disloca- zione (CLD) (base-generation cum deep anaphora; movement cum sur- face anaphora; elliptical clausal juxtaposition cum resumption), two are represented prominently in the recent literature. Ott’s (2014) ac- count treats CLD uniformly in terms of clausal juxtaposition, the first clause being stripped down to its contrastive topic via

Head Conjuncts: Evidence from Old Swedish Erik M. Petzell It is sometimes taken for granted that heads as well as phrases may form coordinate conjuncts. Ancora, what looks like a head may be a phrase with only the head visible. This loophole is shut, Tuttavia, when we turn to Old Swedish stylistic fronting. In certain contexts, only single-word expressions are fronted, which leads to the