Indexed definiteness without demonstratives in Guébie
In this article we describe the semantic distribution of the Guébie definite enclitic =a, which occurs in a subset of unique definite contexts as well as in anaphoric contexts. We further show that Gu - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsInfedeltà nel trasferimento delle collocazioni nella traduzione dei romanzi di Michel Houellebecq dal francese all’italiano
Building on my PhD project, this paper explores fidelity challenges in the transfer of verb-nominal collocations (VNC) in the Italian translations of seven of Michel Houellebecq’s novels. I examine va - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsConsidering an issue: The doubt-suspect ambiguity of Mandarin huaiyi
The Mandarin attitude verb huaiyi exhibits ambiguity between ‘doubt’ and ‘suspect’ in different contexts. While previous research has focused on the declarative-embedding cases of huaiyi, this study o - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsThe primate gestural meaning continuum
Research in formal theoretical semantics has recently expanded its scope to include gestural communication, focusing in particular on gestures that contribute to the content of an accompanying utteran - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsA note on free choice and exclusion-based presuppositional exhaustification
In Del Pinal, Bassi, Sauerland (2024), we present a novel Grammatical theory of FC based on a presuppositional exhaustification operation, called 'pex', and show that it resolves various puzzles conce - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsReporting, telling, and showing dreams
Dreams are not real, so when we recount them we prefix an intensional operator like “I dreamed that…”. Linguists will analyze this construction in terms of clausal complementation syntax and possible - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsFrege's Error? Compositionality, Inference, and Final Causes
This paper argues that compositionality is a form of inference that needs to be embedded into a larger theory of inference, e.g. Peirce's triadic theory (abduction, induction, deduction). Otherwise F - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsOn the pragmatic status of locally accommodated presuppositions
In this paper, we investigate the nature of local accommodation by testing whether certain constraints on global accommodation generalize to local accommodation as well. We rely on a diagnostic first - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsModal indefinites and semantic variation: Lessons from Chuj
Recent work proposes that modal auxiliaries project their domains from an event variable, their ‘anchor’ (Hacquard 2006, 2010, Kratzer 2013). Based on the Spanish modal indefinite uno cualquiera, Alon - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsShared by all speakers? Dative Predicatives in Bulgarian and Russian
We analyze the language-internal variation in the class of dative predicatives in Bulgarian and Russian. For each language, a test questionnaire was prepared. The stimuli were grouped into 15 thematic - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsРусские предикативы в зеркале эксперимента и корпусной грамматики [Russian Predicatives in the Perspective of Sociolinguistic Experiment and Corpus Grammar]
This paper aims at measuring the active vocabulary of Russian predicatives licensing dative- predicative-structures (DPS) and introduces the results of the sociolinguistic experiment paired with the c - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsДaтивно-предикативные структуры и семантико-синтаксический интерфейс в русском и болгарском языках [Dative-predicative structures and the syntax-semantics interface in Russian and Bulgarian]
In this chapter we study the place of dative-predicative structures (DPS) in Russian and Bulgarian and their interaction with the syntax-semantics interface. We pay attention to the main distinctive f - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsОбязательный местоименный экспериенцер и смена семантического типа [Obligatory Pronominal Experiencer and Semantic Type Switching]
The obligatory encoding of the experiencer by pronominal clitics in Bulgarian brings about a more rigid contrast of internal vs external states compared to Russian, despite the overt similarity of con - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsRevisiting kind predication
English bare plurals and Italian definite plurals are considered kind-denoting as they support kind predication, as in `lions are extinct'. In this work, I argue that tools used for referential plural - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsOn the expression of resultativity in English: The view from multiple resultatives
We examine an understudied class of multiple resultatives, resultatives which possess more than one result phrase, as in A guard shot him dead off his horse (Cappelle 2005). We propose that the eventu - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsTwo positions for Russian conditional clauses
This paper discusses the role of the optional particle to in the distribution of conditionals in Russian. The main claim is that the particle to signals a higher adjunction site of the conditional cla - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsAn Overview of Peircean Semiotics, With Applications to Modern Linguistics
This paper is a preliminary introduction to Peircean semiotics. It is still very much in progress. However, because of the potential interest of Peirce's theory of semiotics for linguistics, it is bei - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsLinguistic Analysis, Description, and Typological Exploration with Categorial Grammar (TheBench Guide)
TheBench is a tool to study monadic structures in natural language. It is for writing monadic grammars to explore analyses, compare diverse languages through their categories, and to train models of - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsWh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis
We investigate the acquisition of different functions of wh-words in Czech (Slavic) - a language where wh-words are highly multifunctional. Our working hypothesis is that the acquisition proceeds in a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsThe third person is present: An argument from determiners in generic statements
The representation of 3rd person is a matter of vibrant debate in the literature. While it is generally considered to be the absence of any person specification (Kayne 2000, Adger and Harbour 2007, Bé - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsClauses can be modifiers, or arguments: Evidence from alternations in factivity and answer-orientedness in Turkish and Japanese
Turkish and Japanese attitude predicates combine with two main kinds of embedded clauses: Nominalizations, and clauses introduced by the morphemes diye (Turkish) and to (Japanese). It has been previou - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsIndefinites in Negated Intensional Contexts: An argument for world-skolemized choice functions
This paper introduces a novel scope paradox. I show that indefinites in the surface syntactic scope of negated intensional operators can yield a reading in which the indefinite appears to take wider s - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsModeling the prompt in inference judgment tasks
We show that when analyzing data from inference judgment tasks, it can be important to incorporate into one’s data analysis regime an explicit representation of the semantics of the natural language p - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsThe Taming of the Clitics. Review of: Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of the pronominal, reflexive and verbal clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (Open Slavic Linguistics 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. 461 p.
This paper is a review of: Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsPlusperfect Auxiliaries in the Russian Language of the 14th - 16th Centuries [Связки плюсквамперфекта в русском языке XIV - XVI вв.]]
This paper discusses the syntax of the past tense auxiliaries in the vernacular Old Russian plusperfect construction of the type дал был, дал есми был. I prove that the past tense auxiliaries behaved - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > Semantics[Do They Deserve it: Are Endoclitics Necessary for the Description of Russian Grammar?] Так им и надо: нужны ли эндоклитики для описания русской грамматики?
The paper is addressed a number of morphosyntactic phenomena in Russian grammar, which can be explained as regular or occasional endoclitic insertion. The insertion of Russian prepositions in negative - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsPhilosophical and Linguistic Intuitions and the Core-Periphery Distinction
Throughout history, philosophers have drawn on language to clarify or uncover philosophically relevant intuitions, making a tacit distinction between core and periphery of language. This paper argues - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
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