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An Ellipsis Approach to Contrastive Left-Dislocation by Ott, Dennis

“…This article proposes a novel analysis of contrastive left-dislocation (CLD), according to which the left-dislocated XP is a remnant of clausal ellipsis. This…”
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Contrasting contrastive-topicalization strategies by Ott, Dennis

“…This paper offers a comparison and preliminary analysis of ‘topicalization’ strategies in German, Basque, and English. I argue that Basque and English topics…”
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Strong Generative Capacity and the Empirical Base of Linguistic Theory by Ott, Dennis

“…This traces the evolution of certain central notions in the theory of Generative Grammar (GG). The founding documents of the field suggested a relation between…”
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Generative Grammar and the Faculty of Language : Insights, Questions, and Challenges by Chomsky, Noam, Gallego, Ángel J, Ott, Dennis

“…This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We…”
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Ellipsis in appositives by Ott, Dennis

“…This paper investigates the internal and external syntax of non-restrictive nominal appositives (NAPs), such as John Smith in I met an old friend, John Smith,…”
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The Evolution of I-Language: Lexicalization as the Key Evolutionary Novelty by Ott, Dennis

“…Comparative psychological research suggests that human and non-human minds comprise an array of encapsulated cognitive systems (‘core knowledge systems’)…”
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Fragment Anchors Do Not Support the Syntactic Integration of Appositive Relative Clauses: Reply to Griffiths and De Vries 2013 by Ott, Dennis

“…This commentary responds to the following article: Griffiths, James, and Mark de Vries. 2013. The syntactic integration of appositives: Evidence from fragments…”
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Particles and Deletion by Ott, Dennis, Struckmeier, Volker

“…Much current theorizing analyzes ellipsis as a PF operation silencing designated syntactic domains from which focal constituents are extracted prior to…”
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Contiguity theory by Norvin Richards (review) by Ott, Dennis

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A NOTE ON FREE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN THE THEORY OF PHASES by Ott, Dennis

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Stylistic Fronting as Remnant Movement by Ott, Dennis

“…This paper presents a novel analysis of Stylistic Fronting (SF) in Icelandic. It is argued that SF is not a head‐movement operation, but rather phrasal…”
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Symmetric Merge and Local Instability: Evidence from Split Topics by Ott, Dennis

“…In this paper, I argue against the standard analysis of so‐called split topics in German as discontinuous noun phrases (van Riemsdijk 1989). Building in part…”
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Right-dislocation as deletion by Ott, Dennis, de Vries, Mark

“…While the left clausal periphery has been in the center of attention of syntactic theory since the 1970s, the right periphery remains comparatively…”
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Syntactic islands by Cedric Boeckx (review) by Ott, Dennis

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Phases: Developing the framework ed. by Ángel J. Gallego (review) by Ott, Dennis

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Diminutive-formation in German: Spelling out the classifier analysis by Ott, Dennis

“…In German, mass nouns can be turned into count nouns by means of two alternative strategies: either by using them in connection with a numeral classifier, or…”
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Diminutive-formation in German by Ott, Dennis

“…In German, mass nouns can be turned into count nouns by means of two alternative strategies: either by using them in connection with a numeral classifier, or…”
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Epíleg by Gallego, Ángel J., Ott, Dennis

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La gramàtica generativa i la facultat del llenguatge: descobriments, preguntes i desafiaments by Chomsky, Noam, Gallego, Ángel J., Ott, Dennis

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Dislocations by Fernández‐Sánchez, Javier, Ott, Dennis

“…Dislocation is a kind of construction in which a phrasal constituent (the dislocate) appears at the outer left or right edge of a gap‐less clause (its host)…”
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