Linguistics

The current study investigates the representational status of [Ch] sequences in Sevillian Spanish. Like many Spanish varieties, Sevillian debuccalizes coda /s/ to [h] (/sC/ --> [hC]). Unlike other var - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I argue that there are two kinds of bans on ergative extraction. One is characteristic of predicate-initial ergative languages, and typically involves a ban on both wh-movement and relativization, sp - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I develop an account of the Head-Final Filter of Williams (1982), the AP-Adjacency condition of Belk and Neeleman (2017) (cf. also Adger (2012), Giurgea (2009)), and the Final-over-Final Condition (Ho - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to shape auditory processing in - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In this paper, we analyze the syntax of sentences such as Here is my daughter, which we refer to as PRESENTATIVES. Presentatives turn out to have a wide range of properties that distinguish the - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In our previous work, we argued that Chinese character form is governed by a formal lexical grammar similar to the morphology and phonology of spoken and signed languages. Character morphology operate - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Recent work seeking to provide a formal account of meaning in animal communication took call form to be arbitrary (Schlenker et al. 2014, 2016b). But a long line of research (from Marler 1955 to Magra - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Magri (2009a,b) proposed a generalization according to which a sentence is infelicitous whenever exhaustification over the full set of formal alternatives of the sentence leads to contextual contradic - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Internet searches have turned out to be a revolutionary tool in syntactic research. In this blog post, I outline the general methodology. (https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2023/03/inter - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The paper discusses a potential challenge to the (full) decompositional analysis of ‘say’- complementizers according to which they are synchronically analyzed as respective nonfinite forms of a lexica - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The kinetics for dichlorocyclopropanation of N-vinylimidazole with an excess of chloroform has been studied under multi-site phase-transfer catalyst and ultrasound irradiation conditions using aqueous - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern machine learning has subve - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

It seems the human brain/mind is unique in its capacity to move from (i) a recurrent mental-processing through to (ii) a recursive mental-processing. Some scientists argue that this ‘uniquely human- - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I describe and analyze the morpho-phonology of the English diminutive suffix /-i/, as in doggy, birdie, horsie, and so on. My first goal is to argue that unlike most other diminutives in English thi - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

I propose a novel analysis for neg-raising (NR) with belief predicates, where the NR reading ‘think not’ is achieved as a scaleless implicature derived from applying an exhaustivity operator (from Bar - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In this article, we claim that syntactic objects undergoing ellipsis can participate both in syntactic and PF operations. The empirical domain explored is the interaction between single conjunct agree - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This article addresses the question of how root necessity modals are able to take scope over negative operators. Previous work has argued that wide scope readings are derived by syntactic movement of - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Manner/Result Complementarity (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2010) has been argued to have consequences for argument realization: only manner verbs permit object deletion and non-selected objects. In contra - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

A comprehensive model of natural language processing in the brain must accommodate four components: representations, operations, structures and encoding. It further requires a principled account of ho - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

In a recent manuscript entitled “Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language”, Steven Piantadosi proposes that large language models such as GPT-3 can serve as serious theories of hum - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Do inputs need to be restricted on a language-specific basis? Classic OT claims that they do not: the rich base is filtered by constraints that yield full contrast, complementary distributions, or pos - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

The heterogeneity of wh-words in Romance is expectedly strong although, to date, there has been relatively little work having explored non-canonical interrogative elements. In this paper, we explore t - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This chapter discusses phenomena associated with the Voice head, which is canonically responsible for introducing external arguments. This set of phenomena overlaps with, but is not coterminous with, - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Sentence acceptability judgments are often affected by a pervasive phenomenon called satiation: native speakers give increasingly higher ratings to initially degraded sentences after repeated exposure - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive