Daniel Currie Hall
List of John Benjamins publications in which Daniel Currie Hall is involved.
Articles
2017 The rise of contrastive modality in English: A neoparametric account Syntactic Variation and Change, Håkansson, David, Ida Larsson and Erik Magnusson Petzell (eds.), pp. 68–97 | Article
This paper proposes an account of the morphosyntactic and semantic changes involved in the historical development of the English modals as a distinct category. Adopting a neoparametric approach, in which a language’s inventory of grammatical features may change over time, we show that a cluster… read more
2010 Probing the unnatural Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010, Kampen, Jacqueline van and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 73–85 | Article
2009 Argumenthood, pronouns, and nominal feature geometry Determiners: Universals and variation, Ghomeshi, Jila, Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko (eds.), pp. 97–120 | Article
This article explores the syntactic and feature-geometric properties of English pronouns, and offers some novel solutions to questions identified by Déchaine & Wiltschko (2002) and Rullmann (2004). Building on work by Cowper & Hall (2003, 2005) and Cowper (2005), we propose denotations and… read more