• Nanosyntax : A short primer to a new approach to language 

      Starke, Michal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2009)
      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 ...
    • Resolving (DAT = ACC) ≠ GEN 

      Starke, Michal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-14)
      The traditional notion of case is too coarse to distinguish between the English prepositional dative and the English shifted dative, the Spanish bare accusative and the Spanish “a” accusative, etc. I show that refining our typology of case to include such distinctions resolves a *ABA counterexample to Caha’s 2009 case hierarchy and I discuss where these new distinctions should be placed in the ...