Facilitator effects in middles and more

In this paper, I will argue that obligatory adjuncts in many languages’ middle constructions are a byproduct of an independent constraint on movement, called Anti-locality (Abels 2003; Grohmann 2003; Bošković 2007; Schneider-Zioga 2007; Erlewine 2016; Brillman & Hirsch to appear). Anti-locality...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Elise (Elise S.)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Published: Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128372