Simin Karimi

University of Arizona | UA · Department of Linguistics

We investigate the distribution of argument ellipsis in Persian in the context of the recent debate concerning the derivation of null arguments. Using sloppy/quantificational interpretations of elided arguments, we show that Persian exhibits subject-object elliptical asymmetries. We develop various arguments against the Verb-Stranding VP-ellipsis a...

There are two issues in Germanic languages that have been heavily discussed in the literature in the last three decades: SCRAMBLING, the rearrangement of clausal and phrasal elements that has been found in West Germanic languages, and OBJECT SHIFT, observed in North Germanic languages. Although both operations displace an element across a clause-me...

This article is an overview of the literature on scrambling in various languages. It discusses the typology of languages that exhibit this property, as well as different theories and findings that correspond to this phenomenon. Some critical responses to previous literature have been offered where appropriate.

In this paper we analyse the interdependence of Persian nonverbal (NV) elements and the light verb (LV) in determining the syntactic properties, the event structure, and the alternation possibilities of the entire complex predicate (CP). We argue that these properties provide strong evidence for a constructionalist approach to such phenomena, like...

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