Contrast and Representations in Syntax

by Bjorkman, Bronwyn M.; Hall, Daniel Currie

• ISBN13: 9780198817932
• ISBN10: 0198817932
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-12-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Assistant Professor, Queen's University,Daniel Currie Hall, Associate Professor, Saint Mary's University

Bronwyn M. Bjorkman is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She completed her PhD in Linguistics at MIT in 2011, and prior to arriving at Queen's was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the morphosyntax of tense and aspect, in particular auxiliary verb constructions, as well as on the representation and manipulation of features in syntax. Her work has appeared in journals including Linguistic Inquiry, Glossa, and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and in several edited volumes.


Daniel Currie Hall is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Program in Linguistics at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Before taking up his current position, he completed a PhD. at the University of Toronto in 2007 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam. His research deals with features and contrasts in both phonology and morphosyntax, the latter primarily in a long-standing collaboration with Elizabeth Cowper, and has appeared in journals such as Linguistic Variation, Glossa, Nordlyd, Lingue e linguaggio, and Phonology. He is an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics.

Table of Contents

1. Contrast and representations in syntax: Introduction, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman and Daniel Currie Hall
Part I: Features in the inflectional spine
2. A feature-geometric approach to verbal inflection in Onondaga, Gabriela Alboiu and Michael Barrie
3. Restricted and reversed aspectual contrasts, Andrew Carnie and Sylvia L. R. Schreiner
4. Sentience-based event structure: Evidence from Blackfoot, Elizabeth Ritter
Part II: Contrast in the argument domain
5. Definite expression and degrees of definiteness, Maria Kyriakaki
6. Cross-linguistic contrasts in the structure of causatives in clausal nominalizations, Martha McGinnis
7. The Tlicho syntactic causative and non-nominal CPs, Leslie Saxon
Part III: Architectural questions
8. Against some approaches to long-distance agreement without AGREE, Carson T. Sch?tze
9. Contrast in syntax and contrast in phonology: Same difference?, Daniel Currie Hall