Abstract
While VP-fronting in English has various properties that are generally taken to be hallmarks of
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Jason Merchant, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, audiences at Concordia University and Carleton University, and the anonymous TLR reviewers for helpful feedback.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Lexicalist vs. exoskeletal approaches to language mixing
- On binary features and disagreeing natural classes: Evidence from Cheyenne and Serbian
- VP-fronting: Movement vs. dislocation
- Alternating adjectives
- Spelling out enclitics and giving their tone a voice: Cyclic clitic incorporation in BCS and breaking the cycle
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Lexicalist vs. exoskeletal approaches to language mixing
- On binary features and disagreeing natural classes: Evidence from Cheyenne and Serbian
- VP-fronting: Movement vs. dislocation
- Alternating adjectives
- Spelling out enclitics and giving their tone a voice: Cyclic clitic incorporation in BCS and breaking the cycle