Omer Preminger

DISCLAIMER: I don’t think the following thoughts are particularly “revolutionary” – i.e., I imagine other people have thought (and maybe said) the same things before. But for what it’s worth, I’m a syntactician who has been in linguistics for years and I’ve only recently come to realize these things; so perhaps there are others like  … [read more] “blogpost: The Second Syntax”

Donkey Anaphora is a name for cases where covariance of an antecedent and (what looks like) a bound variable occurs in the absence of c-command, as in the classic (if not entirely pleasant) example in (1): (1) Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it. In (the most salient reading of) ex. (1), the … [read more] “blogpost: Dowty & Jacobson revisited”

I’ve written a new post over at Norbert Hornstein’s Faculty of Language blog. It’s titled: “Phi features, binding, and A-positions.” You can access it here: https://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2018/01/phi-features-binding-and-positions.html (Archived version here.)