Jason Kandybowicz

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jason Kandybowicz is involved.

Title

The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax–phonology interface

Jason Kandybowicz

Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions between the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 136] 2008. xiii, 168 pp.

Articles

Kandybowicz, Jason 2017 On prosodic variation and the distribution of wh- in-situ Syntactic Variation and Change, Håkansson, David, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell (eds.), pp. 111–148 | Article

Wh- in-situ is a pervasive feature of Tano interrogative syntax, yet the Tano languages differ from one another in subtle ways with respect to the distribution of in-situ interrogatives. Languages like Krachi and Bono allow wh- in-situ in both main and embedded complement clauses, whereas… read more

Kandybowicz, Jason 2007 On fusion and multiple copy spell-out: The case of verbal repetition The Copy Theory of Movement, Corver, Norbert and Jairo Nunes (eds.), pp. 119–150 | Chapter

Focusing on the case of verbal repetition in Nupe, a Benue-Congo language spoken in central Nigeria, this chapter shows that verbal repetition constructions are mono-clausal syntactic objects in which the participating verbs are neither independently base-merged, as in the case of verb… read more