David Adger
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Adger is involved.
2025 Mind your Ps and Ks!: Quirky subjects and nominal licensing Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 111–134 | Chapter
This paper revisits a puzzling construction found in Scottish Gaelic and Modern Irish where subjects of modal and experiencer predicates look like prepositional phrases. These have previously been argued to involve raising to the complement of the preposition, or prepositions that are really… read more
2011 Bare resumptives Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, Rouveret, Alain (ed.), pp. 343–366 | Article
This paper shows that some languages have ‘bare resumptives’, that is, resumptive pronouns lacking the usual ö-features. It then shows that bare resumptives must be local to their binder (do not violate islands) unlike ö-featured resumptives. This behaviour is explained by a theory which takes… read more
2005 Variation and the minimalist program Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social, Cornips, Leonie and Karen P. Corrigan (eds.), pp. 149–178 | Article
2004 Circumstantial adverbs and aspect Adverbials: The interplay between meaning, context, and syntactic structure, Austin, Jennifer R., Stefan Engelberg and Gisa Rauh (eds.), pp. 45–66 | Article
2000 Eliminating Disjunction in Lexical Specification Lexical Specification and Insertion, Coopmans, Peter, Martin B.H. Everaert and Jane Grimshaw (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
1997 Deriving the Parametrisation of the Mapping Hypothesis Studies on Universal Grammar and Typological Variation, Alexiadou, Artemis and Tracy Alan Hall (eds.), pp. 109–134 | Article