Omer Preminger
List of John Benjamins publications in which Omer Preminger is involved.
2014 The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan Linguistic Variation 14:2, pp. 179–242 | Article
Many morphologically ergative languages display asymmetries in the extraction of core arguments: while absolutive arguments (transitive objects and intransitive subjects) extract freely, ergative arguments (transitive subjects) cannot. This falls under the label “syntactic ergativity” (see, e.g.… read more
2009 Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 41–56 | Article
In this paper, I explore the possibility accounting for constructions that appear to instantiate Long-Distance Agreement without appealing to a formal operation of agreement-at-a-distance. The viability of such an account is particularly important in light of recent theoretical developments that… read more
2009 Failure to agree is not a failure: φ-Agreement with post-verbal subjects in Hebrew Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2009, van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen (ed.), pp. 241–278 | Article
Based on the patterns of phi-agreement with post-verbal subjects in Hebrew, I argue against the idea that failure to establish a phi-agreement relation between a phi-probe and its putative target (e.g., due to intervention) results in ungrammaticality, or a “crash”; at the same time, I demonstrate… read more
2008 Resumptive pronouns as a last resort when movement is impaired: Relative clauses in hearing impairment Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics, Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Gabi Danon and Susan Rothstein (eds.), pp. 267–290 | Article
This study tested 14 school-age orally-trained children with hearing impairment who have a deficit in A-bar movement, manifested in an impaired comprehension of object relatives and topicalization structures. When they produce a grammatical object relative clause, they typically produce it with a… read more