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What's the difference between counterbleeding, bleeding and feeding?

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Do any languages form plural pronouns by adding a suffix to the singular form?

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How do English people understand the grammatical cases?

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Is there a term for a finite verb which cannot be followed by an infinitive verb, in English?

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What is minimalist about the minimalist program?

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In which of these sentences is “and” used for coordination?

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Resources to Chomsky's Universal Grammar

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Interchangeable arguments with English copula

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Could anyone give examples of context-sensitive sentences that cannot be generated by context-free rules?

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Are there any natural languages that mark the distinction between cataphoric and anaphoric pronouns?

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Syntactic representation of Across-the-board Extraction

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Syntax of exceptives (generative syntax)

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Is the reality of zero morphs controversial among linguists?

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Is "soon" in "it is soon" a predicative adverb or adjective or both?

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Dictionary of Georgian language with lexical stress?

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What are the various rules to deal with "markedness" if the speaker doesn't know?

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Why are "first-person inclusive" forms called "first-person"?

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Describing recursive structures with regular expresions as grammars

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Can one noun phrase follow another in English?

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Does MP model generation or comprehension?

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Why doesn't the subject prevent WH- extraction of an internal argument?

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Does pragmatics cut down or add to the stock of interpretations generated by the semantics?

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Grammar for language L = {ww ∣ w ∈ {a,b,c} * }

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Relative clauses in X-Bar

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What's the difference between counterbleeding, bleeding and feeding?

What are the chief advantages & disadvantages of describing sentences with dependency vs. phrase structure trees?

Do any languages form plural pronouns by adding a suffix to the singular form?

How do English people understand the grammatical cases?

Is there a term for a finite verb which cannot be followed by an infinitive verb, in English?

What is minimalist about the minimalist program?

In which of these sentences is “and” used for coordination?

Resources to Chomsky's Universal Grammar

What's the difference between recursion and embedding?

Interchangeable arguments with English copula

Could anyone give examples of context-sensitive sentences that cannot be generated by context-free rules?

Are there any natural languages that mark the distinction between cataphoric and anaphoric pronouns?

Textbook suggestions for syntax, semantics/pragmatics and phonetics/phonology

Syntactic representation of Across-the-board Extraction

Syntax of exceptives (generative syntax)

Is the reality of zero morphs controversial among linguists?

Is "soon" in "it is soon" a predicative adverb or adjective or both?

Dictionary of Georgian language with lexical stress?

What are the various rules to deal with "markedness" if the speaker doesn't know?

Why are "first-person inclusive" forms called "first-person"?

Describing recursive structures with regular expresions as grammars

Can one noun phrase follow another in English?

Does MP model generation or comprehension?

Why doesn't the subject prevent WH- extraction of an internal argument?

Does pragmatics cut down or add to the stock of interpretations generated by the semantics?

Grammar for language L = {ww ∣ w ∈ {a,b,c} * }

How to express semantics in functions

Relative clauses in X-Bar

Possessive constructions signifying semantic equation: term? distribution? explanation?

X-Bar theory and Trees