Arguments for Word Syntax

Asymmetries in Long-Distance QR

“…They also argue that the that-trace effect is a PF phenomenon. The same conclusion is reached by Ackema and Neeleman (2004), who base their argument on the fact that the that-trace effect disappears when an adverbial intervenes between that and a subject-trace, as originally noted by Culicover (1993: 557):…”

Morphology of Direct Modification

“…Ideas similar to the second hypothesis, which concerns the nature of morphosyntactic representations, are found in the literature dealing with the word-phrase distinction (e.g. Ackema andNeeleman (2004), Di Sciullo (2005)). …”

Multidominance and locality

“…It is highly likely that there is a second, higher-order loop as well, namely from the output of the syntax back to lexical insertion (that is, derivation layering, cf. Ackema & Neeleman 2004, Zwart, 2011, but that does not concern us here.…”