Edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm and Ur Shlonsky
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. read more
This study investigates the interaction between negation and wh-dependencies in French long-distance questions. An acceptability judgment experiment tested 12 conditions, comparing in situ and ex situ wh phrases in positive contexts, under matrix negation, and under embedded negation. Wh… read more
On the assumption that a head c-selects the head of its sister phrase, the question I try to answer is how to implement selection of (indirect) questions and of subjunctive complements. The question is relevant to cartography because the head encoding Q (in interrogatives) and Mood-Subjunctive… read more
Berber nouns appear in two syntactically-conditioned morphological forms. Subjects in VSO configurations, objects of (most) prepositions and clitic-doubled direct objects manifest the construct state, CS. Elsewhere, nouns appear in the free state, FS. I argue that CS is the form of a noun that… read more
