Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis
This contribution addresses a central theme in morphological analysis, namely the relationship between clitics and inflectional elements. Important contributions on the point are due to Anderson (1992 - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxResolution by Case Syncretism in Icelandic Passives
Passivized ditransitives with reflexive indirect objects in Icelandic are subject to speaker variation: speakers either reject the construction entirely (Grammar D), accept it with nominative (Grammar - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxPrepositions and case at the syntax–prosody interface
Syntactically conditioned silence constitutes a longstanding puzzle for linguistic theory. Why should the syntax care about the phonetic content of a given word or morpheme? In this paper, I come at t - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxAgreement in imperative clauses: Evidence from object resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese
This study reports a case of interaction between jussives/imperatives and objects. The core data come from non-agreeing resumptive pronouns (NRPs) in Mandarin Chinese. We show that the NRP exhibits a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxDefault case without case
Case systems often include a special member labelled default case (e.g. Schütze 2001). This paper examines a number of distinct case patterns in Kalaallisut (Inuit, Greenland) and argue that they requ - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxInfedeltà 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 > SyntaxExperimental evidence against verb-stranding VP ellipsis in Russian
This paper provides an experimental view on the debate regarding verb-stranding constructions in Russian, argued to constitute verb-stranding VP ellipsis by Gribanova (2013b) and argument ellipsis by - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxSpeakers encode silent structures: evidence from complementizer priming in English
Do speakers encode abstract structural representations devoid of perceptual-motor content? In six recall-based production experiments, we examined whether English speakers encode the null complementiz - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxThe Null Subject Parameter. Where are we, and where are we headed?
The NSP has been one of the most debated parameters of the generative enterprise. This chapter offers a short state-of-the-art survey of the null subject parameter enterprise. You will find: a brief o - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxSize Matters: Clause Structure and Locality Constraints in Swahili Relatives
This thesis investigates the relationship between clause structure and the locality of movement dependencies in Swahili relatives. It is proposed that relative clauses and complement clauses in Swahil - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxNoncore datives in Basque and Spanish impersonal, passive and anticausative sentences
This paper focuses on the Basque impersonal construction, i.e. a detransitivized configuration that can convey impersonal, passive and middle readings. Although these are agentive constructions (Ferná - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxFrege'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 > SyntaxAndrej Zaliznjak. Cutting off the unnecessary Андрей Анатольевич Зализняк. Абстрагироваться от лишнего []
This paper offers a polemic view on the heritage of Andrej A. Zaliznjak (1935—2017), who authored fundamental works on Russian and Old Russian. In different years, Zaliznjak addressed issues in morpho - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxLinguistics and Cryptophilology
I compare language and text as research objects and discuss the status of text linguistics aka cryptophilology. The latter exploits the philological concept of text, which is masked by the use of ling - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxReciprocal Shift and Symmetry Breaking
Bipartite reciprocal phrases are common in Indo-European, Indo-Aryan and Semitic languages. When occurring with a case particle (K) or a preposition (P), K/P intervenes between the two units of the re - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxOV∼VO in Itelmen: Information Structure and Postverbal objects in a Verb-final language
Through a preliminary study of four contemporary texts, this paper argues that the alternation between object-verb (OV) and verb-object (VO) orders in Itelmen (itl, Chukotko-Kamchatkan) is primarily a - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxA note on Verum Focus in Tigrinya
This paper provides novel data on the phenomenon of Verum Focus (Höhle 1988) in Tigrinya (Eritrea and Ethiopia, Ethio-Semitic, SOV). I claim that the copula used in individual-level predicates in this - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxWord order variability in OV languages. A study on scrambling, verb movement, and postverbal elements with a focus on Uralic languages
This thesis explores word order variability in verb-final languages. Verb-final languages have a reputation for a high amount of word order variability. However, that reputation amounts to an urban my - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxEvaluating the Existence Proof: LLMs as Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition
In recent years, the technological success of large language models (LLMs) has been taken as an existence proof that language acquisition may succeed without domain-specific principles and constraint - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxSyntactic Experimental Evidence on Acceptability Variations of Wh-Island Effects in Chinese
Wh-island effects, as an ungrammatical phenomenon that presents two wh-phrases at the fronted and the intervener positions in a sentence, have been reported to be ameliorated in terms of acceptability - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxModal 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 > SyntaxThe relativized EPP: Evidence from agreement and word order in Border Lakes Ojibwe
This paper explores patterns of agreement and word order in the Central Algonquian language Border Lakes Ojibwe. This variety of Ojibwe shows alternations between VOS and VSO word orders and complex i - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxLinking agreement and movement: A case study of long distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe
This paper argues for an extension of current models of Agree to capture relativized EPP effects, where a probe for movement targets an element with a specific set of features. We support the proposal - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxThe locality of allomorphy: Insights from Bidhaawyeet
This paper discusses a pattern of allomorphy with object-marking suffixes in the Cushitic language Bidhaawyeet (Beja). The various forms of the object suffix show a puzzling distribution. Inside relat - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxShared 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 > SyntaxРусские 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 > SyntaxДaтивно-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
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