Arthur Stepanov
List of John Benjamins publications in which Arthur Stepanov is involved.
2019 Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals: The case of scalar implicatures Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:2, pp. 314–340 | Article
The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners (Slabakova, 2010) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early… read more
2006 ‘Single Cycle’ Languages: Implications for Cyclicity, Recursion and Acquisition Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2006, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 25–71 | Article
Russian and Polish consistently lack standard ‘long-distance’, or cross-clausal, syntactic movement dependencies in both A- and A′- domains: movement is restricted to a finite tensed clause. I refer to languages that display this radical version of locality as ‘single cycle’ languages. Given that… read more
2001 Optionality, Presupposition, and WH-in-situ in French Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000, Camps, Joaquim and Caroline R. Wiltshire (eds.), pp. 57–72 | Article
1997 Case Properties of Nominalization DPs in Classical Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and Robert R. Ratcliffe (eds.), pp. 69–92 | Article
Morphosyntactic restructuring in a border-shift context: A production study in heritage Slovene Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
Heritage language research has predominantly examined immigrant communities where cross border relocation reduces input and typically renders the heritage language ‘weaker’. This study instead examines heritage Slovene in a non immigrant, border shift context, where speakers remain in place but… read more