Ayesha Kidwai

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ayesha Kidwai is involved.

Articles

Kidwai, Ayesha 2010 The cartography of phases: Facts and inference in Meiteilon Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Virginia Hill (eds.), pp. 233–262 | Article

This paper investigates the relation between cartographic and phasal heads in the light of Chomsky’s recent proposals (2007) of feature transfer from C to T; the data come from Meiteilon, a language that lacks Tense morphology. I argue that the evidence from this language provides striking… read more

Kidwai, Ayesha 1999 Word Order and Focus Positions in Universal Grammar The Grammar of Focus, Rebuschi, Georges and Laurice Tuller (eds.), pp. 213–244 | Article