Selection was traditionally attributed to lexicon (or to the interfaces), yet it has been revisited in terms of syntactic dependencies involving features. I take this approach to investigate selection of different clause types in typologically different languages, focusing on the categorial status and the locality profile in different sizes/types of embedded clauses. Interactions with A/Ā-dependencies are considered on a par.

⇀ on Korean/Japanese interrogatives (to appear in GLOW 47) ⇀ on Turkish interrogatives (to appear in Tu+10)

Some typical OV languages requires complement clauses to follow a matrix predicate, showing the VO behavior. I compare the pattern in Persian and Hindi, and argue that postverbal placement of complement clauses is due to linearization constrained by cyclic spell-out, and that it is conditioned by different [EPP]-properties in the vP phase.

 ⇀ proceedings (PLC48) ⇀ manuscript

Languages use different strategies for periphrastic auxiliary verbs in complex verbal inflection forms. I investigate the auxiliary verb pattern in Turkish, and argue that the distribution of auxiliary verbs in Turkish follows from a morphologically-driven well-formedness constraint, which has consequences for the composition of verb complexes under agglutination.

 ⇀ slides (Tu+8) ⇀ paper (Glossa)

In Japanese and Korean, arguments may be null given the presence of an overt antecedent or discourse context. When compared to the scrambling configuration, the distribution of null arguments seems to be syntactically constrained by structural configurations. I show further that the licensing of null arguments can be understood as a syntactic probing from a discourse-domain operator.

⇀ proceedings (JK30)