@article {reintges_high_2011,
	title = {High analyticity and Coptic particle syntax: A phase-based approach},
	journal = {The Linguistic Review},
	volume = {28},
	number = {4},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {533{\textendash}599},
	abstract = {<p>Abstract Coptic {(Ancient} Egyptian, 3rd to 12th c. {CE)} is a language of the isolating/analytic type, with an almost one-to-one correspondence between functional morphemes and words. The present study aims at an exhaustive description and analysis of the language\&$\#$39;s large and diversified inventory of particle words. Functional or grammatical particles encode code tense, aspect, mood categories on the one hand and register wh-dependencies in a broad range of focus-sensitive constructions on the other hand. The central hypotheses are: (i) functional particles are not acategorial parts of speech, but rather fall into two distinct classes of verb-related and complementizer-related categories, (ii) they are not in any sense structurally deficient heads: they can project a specifier position (when endowed with an {EPP} feature) and they can act as phase heads and (iii) the core syntax of the language is laid down by the positive setting of an analyticity macroparameter {(Huang}, {Sino\&ndash;Kwa:} Analyticity, parametric theory, and the lexical-functional divide, 2008). High analyticity involves the division of labor between defective verbal categories and morphologically independent tense particles, which agree with but do not attract the main verb.</p>},
	url = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/tlir.2011.28.issue-4/tlir.2011.015/tlir.2011.015.xml},
	author = {Chris Reintges}
}
