Dominique Sportiche
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dominique Sportiche is involved.
2025 Chapter 3. Conjunction agreement as semantic agreement The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 34–55 | Chapter
We discuss number, and to a lesser extent person, feature value cooccurrence restrictions between a head (Tense here) and a conjoined DP subject. We conclude that these restrictions instantiate semantic agreement, which arises in cases in which the feature values on T do not match the feature… read more
2025 Binding conditions and point of view 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. 142–169 | Chapter
I first show a set of binding problems noted in Heim (1994) and treated in Heim (1994) or Sharvit (2011) appealing to intermediate de se read binders, is neither necessary nor sufficient. To solve these puzzles, I capitalize on the proposal that the Binding Conditions A and B should be… read more
2018 Chapter 18. Resumed phrases (are always moved, even with in-island resumption) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY, Repetti, Lori and Francisco Ordóñez (eds.), pp. 309–324 | Chapter
On the basis of the properties of resumption in colloquial spoken French, I conclude that resumption of a phrase by a pronominal element always involve run of the mill movement of this phrase, whether the resumptive pronoun is inside an island or not. I propose that such movement can take place in… read more
2010 Menace under the microscope: The two verbs menacer and the theory of control Structure Preserved: Studies in syntax for Jan Koster, Zwart, Jan-Wouter and Mark de Vries (eds.), pp. 329–340 | Article