Hedde Zeijlstra

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hedde Zeijlstra is involved.

Journal

Linguistic Variation

General Editor: Hedde Zeijlstra

ISSN 2211-6834 | E‑ISSN 2211‑6842

Articles

Zeijlstra, Hedde 2014 On the uninterpretability of interpretable features Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks (eds.), pp. 109–128 | Article

In this paper I present several arguments that argue against the assumption in current generative syntactic theory that certain formal features are semantically active as well (so-called interpretable formal features). Instead, I propose that the set of formal features and the set of semantic… read more

Zeijlstra, Hedde 2008 On the syntactic flexibility of formal features The Limits of Syntactic Variation, Biberauer, Theresa (ed.), pp. 143–173 | Article

This paper argues that the set of formal features that can head a functional projection is not predetermined by UG, but is derived through L1 acquisition. I formulate a hypothesis that says that every functional category F is realised as a semantic feature [F] unless there are overt doubling… read more