We are delighted to announce the publication in Glossa of (rising fifth-year student) Elise Newman’s paper “Facilitator effects in middles and more”. A “facilitator effect” is the ameliorating effect of adverbials and similar elements in middle constructions such as the famous Bureaucrats bribe easily, where the presence of the adverb is close to obligatory. A novel insight of Newman’s paper is a proposed connection between this effect and other situations ameliorated by intervening material that have been described as an anti-locality” requirement for movement, as well as a comparable proposal for passive constructions where at first glance one might think no facilitator effect is at work.
Because Glossa is an open-access journal, you can click the link below and read the abstract and paper immediately.
Congratulations, Elise!
https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/10.5334/gjgl.990/
Elise’s website: https://esnewman.github.io/elisenewman/