Concepedia

Argument Optionality

Argument Optionality is a syntactic phenomenon in argument-structure typology whereby the obligatoriness or permissibility of an argument in a clause is determined by the interaction of lexical, grammatical, and discourse factors, distinguishing it from fixed argument requirements.

30

Publications

2.5K

Citations

47

Authors

30

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

3

Parents

Publications

30

Very early parameter setting and the unique checking constraint: A new explanation of the optional infinitive stage

Ken Wexler · Lingua · 1998 · 875 citations

, , +3

SLI in Children: Movement, Economy, and Deficits in the Computational-Syntactic System

Heather K. J. van der Lely · Language Acquisition · 1998 · 207 citations

, , +17

Wh-movement in children with grammatical SLI: A test of the RDDR hypothesis

Heather K. J. van der Lely, Jackie Battell · Language · 2003 · 185 citations

, , +16

The Typology of <i>Wh</i>‐Movement, <i>Wh</i>‐Questions in Malay

Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon · Syntax · 1998 · 168 citations

, , +16

The acquisition of "optional" movement

Shalom Zuckerman · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 2001 · 132 citations · Full text

, , +2

1–5 of 30

Authors

47

  1. HK
    Heather K. J. van der Lely

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 392 citations

    2

    h-index

  2. KW
    Ken Wexler

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    1 publications · 875 citations

    1

    h-index

  3. AP
    Anat Prior

    University of Haifa, Israel

    1 publications · 36 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. MO
    Miki Obata

    University of Michigan, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. GH
    Gabriella Hermon

    University of Delaware, United States

    1 publications · 168 citations

    1

    h-index

1–5 of 47

Institutions

30

  1. University of Graz

    Graz, Austria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

  2. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    36 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    71 citations

  4. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  5. University of Houston

    Houston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  6. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    60 citations

  7. University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  8. Institute of Computer Science

    Warsaw, Poland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

1–8 of 30

Venues

  1. Lingua

    3 publications · 914 citations

    3

    h-index

  2. Language

    2 publications · 253 citations

    2

    h-index

  3. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

    Repository · 2 publications · 149 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. Linguistic Inquiry

    1 publications · 94 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. International Journal of American Linguistics

    1 publications · 114 citations

    1

    h-index

1–5