Jean-Yves Pollock
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jean-Yves Pollock is involved.
2010 Notes on French and English demonstratives Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 215–228 | Article
2009 Another look at wh-questions in Romance: The case of Mendrisiottoand its consequences for the analysis of French wh-in situ and embedded interrogatives Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 199–258 | Article
This article will attempt to show that there are at least two types of wh-doubling in
Romance. In some languages, such wh-doubling involves a complex DP of the form
[clitic wh-, wh-phrase], as in Illasi, Monno and the other North Eastern dialects of
Italy studied in Poletto and Pollock (2004),… read more
2003 Three arguments for remnant IP movement in Romance Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 1: Syntax and semantics, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 251–277 | Article
2001 Eppur si muove!: On comparing French and Bellunese wh -movement Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2001, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 147–180 | Article
This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellunese, a Northern Italian dialect spoken in the town of Belluno. A striking difference between the two languages, otherwise very closely related, lies in the fact that bare wh-words in root questions, which display… read more
1983 Accord, Chaines Impersonnelles Et Variables Lingvisticæ Investigationes 7:1, pp. 131–181 | Article
The present paper has two intimately connected goals; It aims at contributing to Chomsky's "Government Binding Theory" and also at providing a fairly detailed comparative analysis of French and English impersonal constructions. Its contribution comes under the guise of (a) an Agreement Theory (see… read more