Nanosyntax is a novel approach to the architecture of language, designed to make (better) sense of the new empirical picture emerging from recent years of syntactic research. It is a large-scale project, addressing a wide array of issues, ranging from big issues such as the modularity of language, to fine details, such as the derivation of allomorphy in irregular patterns of given languages and its ...

This paper examines the problem of selectional ‘matching’ effects in Bengali V-V complex predicates, and English denominal verbs within the context of a decompositional syntax/semantics for verbal meaning and a theory of lexical insertion under non-terminals. It argues that within the particular version of this kind of lexical insertion, as proposed by Ramchand 2008b, selection can be captured by ...

This paper discusses different types of zero-derived de-verbal nominals with a focus on result nominals, simple event nominals and complex event nominals. I argue that zero-derived nominals should be treated on a par with overtly derived nominals. I claim that verbs that have related zero-derived nominals have nominal gender features in their lexical entries in addition to verbal features, like Proc ...

Det eksisterer en stereotypi i Norge om at gutter og jenter banner på forskjellige måter. Denne stereotypien har jeg undersøkt ved hjelp av lydopptak av åtte informanter; fire gutter og fire jenter i Tromsø. Lydopptakene består av ei gruppe med gutter, ei gruppe med jenter og ei blandet gruppe. Jeg har undersøkt både ordvalg, mengde banning og banneordenes funksjon i ytringer.Jeg har fokusert spesielt ...