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  • 1
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    Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality (1994)
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    ISBN: 9789401582919
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 331 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Comparative Literature ; Germanic languages ; Romance languages ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality features 14 new essays by leading specialists in critical theory, comparative literature, philosophy, and English literature. The essays, which present wide-ranging historical considerations of negation in light of recent developments in poststructuralism and postmodernism, range over many of the siginificant texts in which negation figures prominently. The book includes a wide-ranging introductory chapter that examines how attention to negation -- the inescapable nescience that is posited in any and every linguistic expression -- enhances the hermeneutic possibilities present in language. In addition, the four sections of the book bring together major critical interventions on, among others, negative meaning, unrecognizability, elenctic negation, apocalypse, nihilism, negation and gender, and denegation. All the essays involve close attention to key texts by major authors, including William Shakespeare, Henry James, Federico García Lorca, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Walt Whitman, E.M. Forster, Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood, Roland Barthes, Douglas Barbour, Paul de Man, bp Nichol, Jacques Derrida, and Dogen Kigen. The volume opens up new areas in critical theory, comparative literature, and the philosophy of language, and defines a major new area of inquiry in relation to notions of postmodern textuality. Critical theorists, students of comparative literature, English literature, and the history of ideas, and those interested in the hermeneutic implications of postmodernism will find this volume of substantial interest. Its extensive bibliographical apparatus and index make the collection a valuable reference tool for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as for those seeking a variety of interpretive approaches to the problem of negation in literature
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    Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface (1994)
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    ISBN: 9789401111508
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (260p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 52
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Humanities ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semiotics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: This book presents a theory of the interface between lexical semantics and syntax, in which aspect plays a central role. The aspectual properties that figure in the linking between syntax and semantics are expressed through `aspectual roles', assigned by a verb to its arguments. A number of lexical semantic phenomena can be expressed as operations over aspectual roles, and syntactic phenomena can be classified according to whether or not they are sensitive to the presence of aspectual roles. The theory is independent of any particular model of syntax (such as GB or LFG). This theory proposes a modular relationship between aspectual role information, and conceptual or thematic representations of lexical semantic information. Language-specific generalizations about linking are argued to be expressed in thematic or conceptual representations, while universal linking generalizations are expressed in aspectual representations. Consequently, this theory has implications for language acquisition. A number of recent works have treated aspect of lexical semantics or argument structure in their own right, but none have focused on aspect as central in the relation between lexical semantics and syntactic argument structure
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1150-8
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    Yearbook of Morphology 1993 (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401737128
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (V, 273 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Yearbook of Morphology
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    Keywords: Phonology ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Phonology.
    Abstract: Recent years have seen a revival of interest in morphology. The Yearbook of Morphology series supports and enforces this upswing of morphological research and gives an overview of the current issues and debates at the heart of this revival. The Yearbook of Morphology 1993 focuses on prosodic morphology, i.e. the interaction between morphological and prosodic structure, on the semantics of word formation, and on a number of related issues in the realm of inflection: the structure of paradigms, the relation between inflection and word formation, and patterns of language change with respect to inflection. There is also discussion of the relevance of the notion `level ordering' for morphological generalizations. All theoretical and historical linguists, morphologists, and phonologists will want to read this volume
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3712-8
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    Yearbook of Morphology 1992 (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401737104
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 294 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Phonology ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Phonology.
    Abstract: A revival of interest in morphology has taken place during recent years and the subject is seen now as a relatively autonomous subdiscipline of linguistics. As one of the important areas of theoretical research in formal linguistics, morphology has attracted linguists to investigate its relations to syntax, semantics, phonology, psycholinguistics and language change. The aim of the Yearbook of Morphology, therefore, is to support and enforce the upswing of morphological research and to give an overview of the current issues and debates at the heart of this revival
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3710-4
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    A Linguistic Investigation of Aphasic Chinese Speech (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401120401
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 324 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 18
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Chinese language ; Humanities ; Computational linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Asia—Languages.
    Abstract: A Linguistic Investigation of Aphasic Chinese Speech is the first detailed linguistic analysis of a large body of aphasic Chinese natural speech data. This work describes how the major aphasia syndromes are manifest in Chinese, a language which differs significantly from languages upon which traditional aphasia theory is based. Following the Chinese data, a new explanation for the major aphasia syndromes is offered based on the cognitive science modularity hypothesis. The theory posits that Broca's aphasia is the result of computational deficits that occur within linguistic components, while Wernicke's aphasia is the result of deficits that occur in the transfer of information between components. It is demonstrated how the fluent and non-fluent characteristics of the major aphasia syndromes follow directly from the properties of cognitive modules. Detailed linguistic descriptions of Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia in Chinese are provided, including a summary of diagnostics of aphasia type. The complete corpora of four aphasic Chinese speakers, including interlinear and free translations, are presented in an Appendix
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2040-1
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    Semantics and the Lexicon (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401119726
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (416p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 49
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Semiotics. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Computational linguistics.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- I: Fundamentals of Lexical Structure -- 2.X-Bar Semantics -- 3.The Syntax of Metaphorical Semantic Roles -- 4.Levels of Lexical Representation -- 5.Case Marking and the Semantics of Mental Verbs -- 6.Type Coercion and Lexical Selection -- II: Mapping from Lexical Semantics to Syntax -- 7.Nominalization and Predicative Prepositional Phrases -- 8.Adjectives, Nominals, and the Status of Arguments -- 9.Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating Syntax and Lexical Semantics -- 10.Verbs in Depictives and Resultatives -- 11.Explicit Syntax in the Lexicon:the Representation of Nominalizations -- III: Computational Models of Lexical Knowledge -- 12.Lexical Structure and Conceptual Structures -- 13.Lexical Semantic Constraints -- 14.Lexical and Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Based Translation -- 15.Models for Lexical Knowledge Bases -- 16.Providing Machine Tractable Dictionary Tools -- Name Index.
    Abstract: The goal of this book is to integrate the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. Rarely do these two camps meet and discuss the demands and concerns of each other's fields. Therefore, this book is interesting in that it provides a stimulating and unique discussion between the computational perspective of lexical meaning and the concerns of the linguist for the semantic description of lexical items in the context of syntactic descriptions. This book grew out of the papers presented at a workshop held at Brandeis University in April, 1988, funded by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. The entire workshop as well as the discussion periods accom­ panying each talk were recorded. Once complete copies of each paper were available, they were distributed to participants, who were asked to provide written comments on the texts for review purposes. VII JAMES PUSTEJOVSKY 1. INTRODUCTION There is currently a growing interest in the content of lexical entries from a theoretical perspective as well as a growing need to understand the organization of the lexicon from a computational view. This volume attempts to define the directions that need to be taken in order to achieve the goal of a coherent theory of lexical organization.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1972-6
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    Toward Second Language Acquisition : A Study of Null-Prep (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401120388
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 292 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 17
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Psycholinguistics
    Abstract: This book uniquely illustrates how second language acquisition (SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform linguistic and acquisition theory in crucial ways. It also offers new perspectives toward our understanding of the relationship between first and second language acquisition, Universal Grammar (UG), and the target language input. Specifically, examination of the L2 development of pied-piping and preposition stranding in English questions and relative clauses shows that the required preposition is frequently omitted by learners who have demonstrated accurate subcategorization knowledge of verbal complements in related declarative constructions. The `null-prep' data in the L2 grammar leads to an important cross-linguistic investigation of this largely ignored syntactic phenomenon in the world's languages; it also motivates exploration of the complex English input learners receive as positive evidence. An analysis of null-prep, piping and stranding is posited, including the relevant principles and parameters of UG involved. Based on this linguistic analysis, alternative explanations for the L2 phenomenon are offered, representing challenges to UG and markedness-based accounts of second language acquisition. Such challenges will be of interest to linguists as well as to students, teachers, reseachers and scholars interested in second language acquisition, particularly in its relationship to UG
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2038-8
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    Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar : Acts of the Ninth European Symposium for Medieval Logic and Semantics, held at St Andrews, June 1990 (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401117678
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 422 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series 48
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Philosophy, medieval ; History ; Historical linguistics.
    Abstract: This book presents the very latest research on the medieval use of sophisms in logical and grammatical investigation by twenty-three of the leading experts in Europe and beyond. Important insights into the genre of sophismatic treatises have been gained only very recently, and the organisation of the European Symposium on this topic in 1990 led to a concentration of research and evaluation of insights. The papers are divided into three groups: one covers textual study and analysis of the role of sophisms in the medieval curriculum; another deals with grammatical sophisms; and the third covers particular logical sophisms, from 'Man is the worthiest of creatures' and problems in the theory of reference to the Liar paradox and the work of William of Ockham
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1767-8
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    Verbs and Diachronic Syntax : A Comparative History of English and French (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401129107
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (392p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Germanic languages ; Romance languages ; Historical linguistics.
    Abstract: This book analyses the development of a number of English and French constructions involving various kinds of subject-verb inversion. The analysis is framed in terms of the principles-and-parameters approach to syntactic theory, and provides strong support for the adoption of this approach in the description and explanation of language change. The book falls into three parts. The first presents an overall framework for the analysis of inversion constructions and motivates, on the basis of synchronic data, several parameters which distinguish among the various Romance and Germanic languages. The second part shows how several near-simultaneous syntactic changes in the history of French can be explained as a change in one of the parameters introduced in Chapter One. A notable aspect of this analysis is the way in which the distribution of null subjects is shown to relate to verb-placement. The third part of the book treats verb-movement in the history of English, arguing in detail that the attested changes in this area are due to a change in the internal structure of `Infl', a proposal which has important ramifications for the theory of functional heads. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on the theoretical questions raised by language change. In this connection the two notions of diachronic reanalysis and parametric change are distinguished. Verbs and Diachronic Syntax will interest all theoretical linguists as well as specialists in the history of English, history of French, Germanic philology and Romance philology
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2910-7
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    The Language of Propositions and Events : Issues in the Syntax and the Semantics of Nominalization (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401581615
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 285 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 51
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Metaphysics ; Comparative linguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Semiotics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: The Language of Propositions and Events offers a comprehensive theory of the relation between noun meaning and verb meaning. Two main theses are defended in this book. The first thesis is that an adequate account of the interpretation and distribution of nominals calls for a distinction between three types of entities in the domain of discourse: events, propositions, and states of affairs. It is argued that different types of nominals differ in their ability to denote entities of these types and that predicates differ in their ability to select for them. The second main thesis is that an adequate characterization of the relation between noun meaning and verb meaning can be given by taking account of the fact that situations may stand in the part of relation. Kratzer's semantics of situations is the basis for this analysis of nominalization. Moreover, the book addresses the issue of the argument structure of nominals and offers an analysis of the puzzling distribution of infinito sostantivato in Italian. For graduate students in semantics and syntax, theoretical linguists, philosophers of language, students of Romance linguistics
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8161-5
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    From Discourse to Logic : Introduction to Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic and Discourse Representation Theory (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401716161
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 717 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 42
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: This is the first textbook that approaches natural language semantics and logic from the perspective of Discourse Representation Theory, an approach which emphasizes the dynamic and incremental aspects of meaning and inference. The book has been carefully designed for the classroom. It is aimed at students with varying degrees of preparation, including those without prior exposure to semantics or formal logic. Moreover, it should make DRT easily accessible to those who want to learn about the theory on their own. Exercises are available to test understanding as well as to encourage independent theoretical thought. The book serves a double purpose. Besides a textbook, it is also the first comprehensive and fully explicit statement of DRT available in the form of a book. The first part of the book develops the basic principles of DRT for a small fragment of English (but which has nevertheless the power of standard predicate logic). The second part extends this fragment by adding plurals; it discusses a wide variety of problems connected with plural nouns and verbs. The third part applies the theory to the analysis of tense and aspect. Many of the problems raised in Parts Two and Three are novel, as are the solutions proposed. For undergraduate and graduate students interested in linguistics, theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Suitable for students with no previous exposure to formal semantics or logic
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1616-1
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    Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse (1993)
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    ISBN: 9789401117159
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 455 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 50
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    Abstract: Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to `bottom up, compositional' discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in English. The book then substantially revises and extends the dynamic semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects. For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications and discourse, philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence
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    Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory : A Comparative Analysis of French and English Child Grammars (1992)
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    ISBN: 9789401125741
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 175 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Humanities ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: The theory of language acquisition is a young but increasingly active field. Language Acquisition and Syntactic Theory presents one of the first detailed studies of comparative syntax acquisition. It is informed by the view that linguists and acquisitionists are essentially working on the same problem, that of explaining grammar learnability. The author takes cross-linguistic data from child language as evidence for recent proposals in syntactic theory. Developments in the structure of children's sentences during the first few years of life are traced to changes in the setting of specific grammatical parameters. Some surprising differences between the early child grammars of French and English are uncovered, differences that can only be explained on the basis of subtle distinctions in inflectional structure. This motivates the author's claim that functional or nonthematic categories are represented in the grammars of very young children. The book also explores the relationship between acquisition and diachronic change in French and English. It is argued that findings in acquisition, when viewed from a parameter setting perspective, provide answers to important questions arising in the study of language change. The book promises to be of interest to all those involved in the formal, psychological or historical study of linguistic knowledge
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2574-1
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    Yearbook of Morphology 1991 (1992)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 264 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Phonology ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Phonology.
    Abstract: Theme ‘Morphological Classes’ Guest Editor: Mark Aronoff -- Syntactically Arbitrary Inflectional Morphology -- Noun Classes in Arapesh -- The Latvian Declension -- Formal Properties of the Conjugations in Modern Aramaic -- The Form Classes of Spanish Substantives -- Morphological Classes and Grammatical Organization -- Theme ‘Productivity’ -- Quantitative Aspects of Morphological Productivity -- The Relationship between Morphological Productivity and Frequency: A Comment on Baayen’s Performance-Oriented Conception of Morphological Productivity -- Constraining Psycholinguistic Models of Morphological Processing and Representation: The Role of Productivity -- Scalar Productivity and -lily Adverbs -- Other Articles -- Morphemic Circumscription -- On the Theoretical Status of Position Class Restrictions on Inflectional Affixes -- Book Reviews -- Renato Oniga,I composti nominali latini: una morfologia generativa -- Yakov Malkiel, Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism. Edita and Inedita, 1979–1988 -- Book Notices -- Wolfgang U. Dressler, Hans C. Luschützky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer, and John R. Rennison (eds.), Contemporary Morphology -- Soledad Varela Ortega, Fundamentos de Morfología -- Journal of the English Linguistic Society, Vol. 7 (1990) -- Publications Received -- Notes To Contributors.
    Abstract: MARK ARONOFF The articles included in this section represent recent research on morpholog­ ical classes which has been independently performed by a number of investi­ gators. This work was presented at a symposium that was organized as part of the 1990-1991 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Chicago in January 1991. Our aim in presenting this work is twofold: on the one hand, we would like to encourage others interested in morphology to pursue the types of research that we present. This is especially important in the study of morphological classes, which, while they are widespread among the languages of the world, are also highly diverse and often quite complex. On the other hand, we hope to convince researchers in adjacent areas to provide a place for autonomous morphology in their general picture of the workings of language and to pay closer attention to the intricacies of the interactionbetweenmorphologyand theseareas.
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    The Acquisition of Verb Placement : Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition (1992)
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    ISBN: 9789401128032
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 16
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: The twelve original contributions in this volume all focus on the question of whether developing grammars contain, at each stage of language acquisition, the full range of functional categories such as INFL, AGR, or COMP. The crucal evidence examined is the placement of verbs, especially in verb-second constructions. Since the position of verbal elements depends in the finiteness distinction, viz. on the presence of agreement and tense markings, the development of these phenomena is studied as well. Although there is consensus among the authors of the volume that grammars in the course of language acquisition conform at each stage to the principles of universal grammar, they disagree on whether the full repertoire of functional categories is available from early on or whether some are implemented only later. The studies presented here investigate monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition and, in one case, adult second language acquisition. The languages studied are Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Sesotho, and Swedish
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2803-2
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    Japanese Syntax and Semantics : Collected Papers (1992)
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    ISBN: 9789401127899
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 376 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 27
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; South Asian Languages ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Semiotics. ; Asia—Languages.
    Abstract: This volume is a collection of articles the author has written over the last 20 years on a wide-ranging number of issues in Japanese syntax and semantics. Many of the papers challenged prevailing opinions, and some in fact were instrumental in changing perspectives within the broader linguistic community. Some of the papers address particular structures in Japanese, such as passives, relative clauses, and double-subject constructions. All the papers, however, go beyond the description to place those constructions in an interesting theoretical context. The volume will be of interest both to students of Japanese linguistics and to specialists in general syntactic theory and semantics
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-2789-9
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    Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure : Cross-Linguistic Perspectives (1992)
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    ISBN: 9789401134729
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Semiotics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: Bound and Referential Pronouns -- Logical Form and Barriers in Navajo -- Towards a Modular Theory of Coreference -- Head Government in LF-Representations -- Logical Structure in Syntactic Structure: The Case of Hungarian -- In Defense of the Correspondence Hypothesis: Island Effects and Parasitic Constructions in Logical Form -- Construing WH -- Two Properties of Clitics in Clitic-Doubled Constructions -- LF Movement in Iraqi Arabic -- List of Contributors.
    Abstract: In comparative syntax a general approach has been pursued over the past decade predicated on the notion that Universal Grammar allows of open parameters, and that part of the job of linguistic theory is to specify what values these parameters may have, and how they may be set, given primary linguistic data, to determine the grammars of particu­ lar languages. The papers presented in this volume are also concerned with language variation understood in this way. Their goals, however, do not strictly fall under the rubric of comparative syntax, but form part of what is more properly thought of as a comparative semantics. Semantics, in its broadest sense, is concerned with how linguistic structures are associated with their truth-conditions. A comparative semantics, therefore, is concerned with whether this association can vary from language to language, and if so, what is the cause of this variation. Taking comparative semantics in this way places certain inherent limitations on the search for the sources of variability. This is because the semantic notion of truth is universal, and does not vary from language to language: Sentences either do or do not accurately characterize what they purport to describe. ! The source of semantic variability, therefore, must be somehow located in the way a language is structured.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3472-9
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    Island Constraints : Theory, Acquisition and Processing (1992)
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    ISBN: 9789401719803
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 480 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 15
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Humanities ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: This book contains articles on the theory, acquisition and processing of island constraints. The book is unique in taking an interdisciplinary approach to a syntactic phenomenon that has been at the center of linguistic debates since the 1960s. Both transformational and non-transformational approaches to island constraints are represented. The papers in the volume show how data from empirical studies of the role of island constraints in processing and acquisition by normals and by special populations can contribute to our understanding of broad issues concerning the representation of linguistic structures in the mind, including the interplay between lexical, pragmatic and syntactic knowledge. In addition, they contribute vital data to specific on-going debates in processing and development, such as the emergence of movement rules in children's grammars and the temporal ordering of events in the analysis of discontinuous dependencies by the language processor. The papers in the volume exploit examples from a variety of languages and use a variety of experimental techniques to marshal arguments for specific models of the theory of island constraints and their deployment in real-time language acquisition and language processing
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1980-3
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    Principle-Based Parsing : Computation and Psycholinguistics (1992)
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    ISBN: 9789401134743
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 44
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics ; Psycholinguistics
    Abstract: Principles of Principle-Based Parsing -- Deductive Parsing: The Use of Knowledge of Language -- The Computational Implementation of Principle-Based Parsers -- Empty Categories, Chain Binding, and Parsing -- Parsing Warlpiri—A Free Word Order Language -- Principle-Based Parsing for Machine Translation -- Principle-Based Interpretation of Natural Language Quantifiers -- Avoid the Pedestrian’s Paradox -- Parsing With Changing Grammars: Evaluating a Language Acquisition Model -- Parsing By Chunks -- Subcategorization and Sentence Processing -- Subjacency in a Principle-Based Parser -- Locating Wh Traces -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3474-3
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    Control and Grammar (1992)
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    ISBN: 9789401579599
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 48
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    Keywords: Linguistics Philosophy ; Humanities ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semiotics. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The grammatical phenomenon of control subsumes a variety of cases where an understood argument of a complement or adjunct clause is related to an explicit element occurring elsewhere in the sentence. The control phenomenon, though familiar from many languages, and widely discussed, has remained a persistent and controversial topic in grammatical analysis. This volume presents nine new, theoretical studies of control. The authors explore the subject matter across a range of languages and constructions, in several different frameworks, and from a variety of perspectives including syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics and historical linguistics. The articles in this collection offer a stimulating introduction to the spectrum of issues in control theory and their bearing on theoretical linguistics today. The contributors include: Steven Franks, Kenneth Hale, James Higginbotham, Norbert Hornstein, James Huang, Pauline Jacobson, Brian Joseph, Howard Lasnik, Kenneth Wexler, and Edwin Williams
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-7959-9
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    Universal Grammar and American Sign Language : Setting the Null Argument Parameters (1991)
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    ISBN: 9789401134682
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    Keywords: Sign language ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: 1. Universal Grammar and American Sign Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Theoretical Framework: Government and Binding -- 3. The Structure of American Sign Language -- 4. Language Acquisition -- Notes -- 2. Null Arguments in American Sign Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Null Pronominal Arguments of Agreeing Verbs -- 3. Some Previous Analyses of Null Pronouns -- 4. The Null Pronoun Parameters -- 5. The Occurrence of Null Arguments with Non-Agreeing Verbs -- 6. Questions for Huang’s Account of Chinese -- 7. A Cross-Linguistic Survey of Null Arguments -- 8. Setting the Null Argument Parameters -- Notes -- 3. Acquiring the Correct Settings on the Null Argument Parameters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Acquisition of Null Argument Structures in ASL: Production -- 3. The Acquisition of Null Pronoun Structures in ASL: Imitation -- 4. Effects of the Acquisition of Morphology on Syntactic Parameter Setting -- 5. The Acquisition of Null and Overt Arguments in Spoken Languages -- 6. Performance Accounts of Children’s Null Subjects -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Summary, Suggestions, and Conclusions -- 1. Summary of Results -- 2. Suggestions for an Analysis of the Initial Settings -- 3. A Model of Language and Mind -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Subjects Involved in Production and Imitation Studies -- Appendix 2: Imitation Task Stimuli -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE American Sign Language (ASL) is the visual-gestural language used by most of the deaf community in the United States and parts of Canada. On the surface, this language (as all signed languages) seems radically different from the spoken languages which have been used to formulate theories of linguistic princi­ ples and parameters. However, the position taken in this book is that when the surface effects of modality are stripped away, ASL will be seen to follow many of the patterns proposed as universals for human language. If these theoretical constructs are meant to hold for language in general, then they should hold for natural human language in any modality; and ifASL is such a natural human language, then it too must be accounted for by any adequate theory of Universal Grammar. For this rea­ son, the study of ASL can be vital for proposed theories of Universal Grammar. Recent work in several theoretical frameworks of syntax as well as phonology have argued that indeed, ASL is such a lan­ guage. I will assume then, that principles of Universal Gram­ mar, and principles that derive from it, are applicable to ASL, and in fact that ASL can serve as one of the languages which test Universal Grammar. There is an important distinction to be drawn, however, be­ tween what is called here 'American Sign Language', and other forms of manual communication.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3468-2
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    Views on Phrase Structure (1991)
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    ISBN: 9789401131964
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (V, 244 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Computational linguistics ; Semiotics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: From Conceptual Structure to Syntactic Structure -- Determiners in NP and DP -- The Syntax of Possession -- On Double Objects in English and Dutch -- Heads, Projections, and Category Determination -- Free X-Bar Theory, Specificity, and Wh-Movement -- Phrase Structure and Passive -- Incorporating a Clausal Head -- Verb Second and Illocutionary Force -- Nonsentential Constituents and Theories of Phrase Structure -- Syntactic Affixation and Performance Structures -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS Initial drafts of the papers in this collection were presented in a con­ ference entitled 'Views on Phrase Structure', held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in March, 1989. Eleven of the twenty-three partici­ pants in the conference were able to contribute to this volume. The purpose of the conference was to explore theories of phrase structure in their relation to other subsystems of grammar and/or systems of nonlinguistic knowledge. Some of the grammatical subsystems which the authors consider are theta-theory, movement, Case, and binding; a number of papers address how the conceptual system and/or aspects of language use may interact. Unifying the various approaches and perspectives is an attempt to furnish hypotheses concerning prin­ ciples of phrase structure with some sort of independent justification. 1. PHRASE STRUCTURE THEORY: A BRIEF HISTORY A basic outline for a theory of phrase structure theory is accepted by all of the authors here; it is known as 'X-bar theory'. The concepts of X-bar theory are expressed in some form by a number of pre-generative linguists. For example, Bloomfield (1933) contrasted endocentric struc­ tures such as noun phrases and verb phrases with those he considered exocentric, e. g. prepositional phrases and clauses. Jespersen (1933), while presenting a functional system of description (in terms of 'ranks', where rank one is 'nominal', for example), clarified the relations among the head of a phrase, its modifier, and a phrase which modifies the modifier.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3196-4
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    Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar (1991)
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    ISBN: 9789401134460
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Computational linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: NP-Movement, Crossover and Chain-Formation -- NP-Movement and Expletive Chains -- Chain Formation, Reanalysis, and the Economy of Levels -- On Reconstruction and Coordination -- An Argument for Movement -- Barriers and the Theory of Binding -- Levels and Empty Categories in a Principles and Parameters Approach to Parsing -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping­ rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a" , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap­ ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 §17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com­ pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3446-0
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    Purpose Clauses : Syntax, Thematics, and Semantics of English Purpose Constructions (1991)
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    ISBN: 9789401134781
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    Abstract: I. Introduction -- 1. Two Theoretical Frameworks -- 2. Purpose Constructions -- II. External Syntax -- 1. Distinguishing Purpose Clauses -- 2.Adjunction of IOC and PC -- 3. Purpose Clauses as Adjuncts -- 4. Wh-Extraction -- III. Internal Syntax -- 1. Inside In Order Clauses -- 2. Inside Subject-Gap Purpose Clauses -- 3. Inside Object-Gap Purpose Clauses -- 4. The PP ‘Subject’ of OPC -- 5. PC and Be -- IV. Easy-Clauses -- 1. Easy-S’ -- 2. Easy-Clause = OPC -- 3. The New Tough Movement -- 4. Related Constructions -- V. Quantification -- 1. Quantification and Predication -- 2. Quantifying PRO arb -- 3. Control via Empty Operators -- 4. Conclusion -- VI. Control -- 1. A Semantics for Control -- 2. What is a ?-Role? -- 3. Control of Purpose Clauses -- 4. Generalized Control -- 5. Obligatory Control and the Argument/Adjunct Distinction -- VII. Conclusion -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unremarkable. We hear and see these things all the time. John came [to play with the children] [to play with] I brought John along Insofar as purpose clauses appear to be adverbial, they frequently occupy a relatively low place on the scale of important things for syntactic theory to address itself to. In this book I assume the theoretical framework that has come to be known as 'Government-Binding' theory (GB), initiated in Chomsky (1981). The general fonn of the analyis of purpose clauses in GB dates roughly from Chomsky (1977). where several kinds of constructions akin to purpose clauses are identified. Within GB. this analysis is so widely accepted that it deserves to be considered the standard theory. This book, then. is about a few syntactically peripheral ell~ments that have enjoyed a relatively long-lived. virtually universally accepted. theoretical treatment What is perhaps an obvious question arises in this context. Why write a GB book about purpose clauses? This book. I hope, will supply an interesting answer. Simply put. purpose clause:;, and related constructions, have various properties that are not accounted for in the standard theory. In this book I propose an alternative analysis of purpose clauses, an analysis from which. I think. more of their properties follow more naturally.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3478-1
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    Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax : A Lexicalist Approach (1991)
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    ISBN: 9789401132046
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23
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    Keywords: Austroasiatic languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Asia—Languages.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 1.1. Preamble -- 1.2. Events and participants -- 1.3. The model -- 1.4. Interactions -- I: Non-Configurationality -- 2: Simple Sentences -- 3: Pronominals -- 4: Case -- 5: Discontinuous Expressions -- II: Grammatical Functions in Warlpiri -- 6: Selected Functions -- 7: External Participants -- Appendices -- List of Abbreviations -- Sources of Warlpiri Data.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3204-6
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    Structures for Semantics (1991)
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Logic ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: One: Logic and Set Theory -- 1.1. First Order Logic -- 1.2. Second Order Logic -- 1.3. First Order Theories -- 1.4. Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory -- Two: Partial Orders -- 2.1. Universal Algebra -- 2.2. Partial Orders and Equivalence Relations -- 2.3. Chains and Linear Orders -- Three: Semantics with Partial Orders -- 3.1. Instant Tense Logic -- 3.2. Algebraic Semantics, Functional Completeness and Expressibility -- 3.3. Some Linguistic Considerations Concerning Instants -- 3.4. Information Structures -- 3.5. Partial Information and Vagueness -- Four: Constructions with Partial Orders -- 4.1. Period Structures -- 4.2. Event Structures -- Five: Intervals, Events and Change -- 5.1. Interval Semantics -- 5.2. The Logic of Change in Interval Semantics -- 5.3. The Moment of Change -- 5.4. Supervaluations -- 5.5. Kamp’s Logic of Change -- Six: Lattices -- 6.1. Basic Concepts -- 6.2. Universal Algebra -- 6.3. Filters and Ideals -- Seven: Semantics with Lattices -- 7.1. Boolean Types -- 7.2. Plurals -- 7.3. Mass Nouns -- Answers To Exercises -- References.
    Abstract: Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica­ tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are tools that help us build semantic theories. Our real aim is to understand semantic phenomena and we need the technique to make our understanding of these phenomena precise. The problems in semantics are most often too hard and slippery, to completely trust our informal understanding of them. This should not be taken as an attack on informal reasoning in semantics. On the contrary, in my view, very often the essential insight in a diagnosis of what is going on in a certain semantic phenomenon takes place at the informal level. It is very easy, however, to be misled into thinking that a certain informal insight provides a satisfying analysis of a certain problem; it will often turn out that there is a fundamental unclarity about what the informal insight actually is. Formalization helps to sharpen those insights and put them to the test.
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    Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps (1991)
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Romance languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: 1 /Theoretical Background -- 1.1. Government-Binding Theory -- 1.2. Parasitic Gaps -- Notes -- 2 / Universal Licensing -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. Licensing -- 2.2. Licensing at D-Structure -- 2.3. Licensing at S-Structure: Null Operators -- 2.4. Universal Licensing and Parasitic Gaps -- 2.5. Summary -- Notes -- 3 / Double Dont Constructions -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Genitival Relatives -- 3.2. Non-Movement Relatives With Dont -- 3.3. Double Constructions with Dont -- 3.4. Identifying the Gaps -- 3.5. Summary -- Notes -- 4/Null Operators In DPs -- 4.0. Introduction -- 4.1. Null Operators in Noun Phrases at S-Structure -- 4.2. Null Operators in Noun Phrases at D-Structure -- 4.3. Easy-Type Constructions in Noun Phrases: Inalienable Possession -- 4.4. Summary -- Notes -- 5 / Locality In Double Dont Constructions -- 5.0. Introduction -- 5.1. Two Chain Approaches to External Locality -- 5.2. DDCs and Chain Composition -- 5.3. Deriving the Properties of PG Constructions -- Notes -- References -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects.
    Abstract: The study of parasitic gap constructions (e. g. these are the reports; which you corrected _; before filing _i) has been a very lively area of research over the last decade. The impetus behind this lies mostly in the margi­ nality of the construction. Clearly, the intuitions that native speakers have about parasitic gaps do not stem from direct instruction; hence, it is reasoned, such knowledge follows from the restrictions imposed by Universal Grammar. Furthermore, it is unlikely that any principle of Universal Grammar refers specifically to parasitic gap constructions; their syntactic and interpretive properties must instead follow entirely from independent principles. My own interest in the phenomenon was sparked a few years ago, when, in a novel, I came across a sentence like the following: Chait un armateur; dont Ie prestige _; reposait largement sur la fortune _;, 'he was a shipbuilder of whom the prestige was largely based on the wealth'. As the indices indicate, the interpretation of the French sentence is un­ ambiguous: both the prestige and the wealth necessarily pertain to the same individual. In this aspect, the sentence much resembles the English parasitic gap construction above: in the former case too, the comple­ ments of correct and file must corefer with the noun phrase heading the relative (the reports). Yet, there is an important difference between the two constructions. Verbs like correct and file subcategorize their com­ plements.
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    Syntactic Variables : Resumptive Pronouns and A′ Binding in Palauan (1991)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 24
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Austroasiatic languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Asia—Languages.
    Abstract: One: Introduction -- Two: Palauan —A Sketch of the Grammar -- Three: The Variable Binding Structures -- Four: Variable Binding -- Five: Embedded Questions and the Scope of WH Phrases -- Six: Crossover Constructions -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This book represents the culmination of an extended period of field work on the Palauan language, carried out while I was a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego. The book was born as a short term paper written in 1982; from a forgettable infancy, that paper grew and grew, reaching the age of majority in my dissertation at the end of 1985. Some of its offspring have gone off on their own, as indepen­ dent papers, as course materials, or as thoughts that have not yet com­ pletely materialized. Some have been disowned. The full adulthood of this study of Palauan is realized in the present book. Virtually every section of the dissertation has been rewritten, updated, or otherwise (I hope) improved. Where the dissertation was still struggling with various problems, the book has found solutions. The aim of the book remains, however, to give broad coverage of Palauan, with emphasis on A' binding, rather than to focus narrowly on a few highly specific theoretical issues. I hope to have achieved a balance between presenting the language clearly and nonprejudicially, and deal­ ing with various of its properties in current theoretical terms. If I have, the book should prove to be a resource for further typological study of the phenomena it describes.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3202-2
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    The Parameter of Aspect (1991)
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 469 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Humanities ; Computational linguistics ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: I -- 1 — The Approach -- 2 — Situation Aspect -- 3 — The Linguistic Realization of the Situation Types -- 4 — Viewpoint Aspect -- 5 — Temporal Location -- 6 — The Formal Analysis of Aspect -- 7 — Aspectual Meaning in Discourse Representation Theory -- II -- 8 — The Aspectual System of English -- 9 — The Aspectual System of French -- 10 — The Aspectual System of Russian -- 11 — The Aspectual System of Mandarin Chinese -- 12 — The Aspectual System of Navajo -- References -- General Index -- Name Index.
    Abstract: During the period I have been working on this project I have received institutional support of several kinds, for which I am most grateful. I thank the Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford University, and the Spencer Foundation, for a stimulating environment in which the basic idea of this book was developed. The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen enabled me to spend several months working on the the manuscript. ANational Science Foundation grant to develop Discourse Representation theory, and a grant from The University Research Institute of the University of Texas, allowed me time to pursue this project. I also thank the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Texas for research support. I thank Helen Aristar-Dry for reading early drafts of the manuscript, Östen Dahl for penetrating remarks on a preliminary version, and my collaborator Gilbert Rappaport for relentIess comments and questions throughout. The individuals with whom I have worked on particular languages are mentioned in the relevant chapters. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to the members of my graduate seminar on aspect in the spring of 1990: they raised many questions of importance which made a real difference to the working out of the theory. I have benefitted from presenting parts of this material publicly, including cOlloquia at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, the University of Texas, and the University of Tel Aviv.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-7911-7
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    Parameters in Old French Syntax: Infinitival Complements (1990)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (344p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Romance languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Historical linguistics.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- 1.1. Aims and Assumptions -- 1.2. Infinitival Complements in Old French -- 1.3. Government-Binding Theory -- 1.4. Old French -- 1.5. Outline -- Notes -- 2: Romance Infinitival Complements -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. Comparable Characteristics of Infinitivals in Old French, Modern Italian and Modern Spanish -- 2.2. “Reduced Clause” Analyses -- Notes -- 3: The Romance Causative -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Fare S versus Fare VP -- 3.2. The Extension of Fare VP -- 3.3. Against an Objection to Fare [+V] -- 3.4. Summary and Implications -- Notes -- 4: Non-Causative Pro-MV-Inf Constructions -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1. [+V] Complements in Pro-MV-Inf Constructions -- 4.2. Case Assignment and ?-roles -- 4.3. Burzio’s S Complement Account -- 4.4. ?-roles and Pro-MV-Inf Constructions -- 4.5. The Assignment of Essere -- 4.6. Constructions with Ne -- 4.7. Some Diachronic Implications -- 4.8. Summary -- Notes -- 5: Causatives in Old French -- 5.0. Introduction -- 5.1. Romance Causatives -- 5.2. The Causative Construction in Old French -- 5.3. Analysis of Old French Data -- 5.4. Syntactic Properties of Causative Type Complements in Old French -- 5.5. Case Assignment and Impersonal Verbs -- 5.6. The Causative Faire -- 5.7. Summary -- Notes -- 6: Non-Causative Infinitival Complements in Old French -- 6.0. Introduction -- 6.1. Infinitival Complements in Old French -- 6.2. Pronouns as Indicators of Structure -- 6.3. Ordering of Weak Pronouns -- 6.4. INFL, Verb Raising and Clitic Movement -- 6.5. Summary -- Notes -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- (a) Texts -- (b) Studies -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: 1.1. AIMS AND ASSUMPTIONS This book presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French (OF) from the perspective of the Government-Binding (GB) framework. It aims, therefore, to establish within the terms of the GB framework just how the OF constructions are to be characterized and in just what sense they can or cannot be compared with the corresponding constructions in other Romance languages. The GB framework is an articulated theory about the structure of language which is based on the view that the aim of research into language is to construct a description of language which accurately reflects its essential nature. Whilst we know that individual languages may appear to be superficially very different, we also know that all languages are capable of expressing complex concepts and that all children acquire mastery of the language or languages to which they are exposed. The task, therefore, is to determine both the properties which languages have in common and the bounds within which they may differ. In the pursuit of these aims, the study of various languages of the Romance family has provided a rich source of material for the develop­ ment of the descriptive apparatus. Evidence of the contribution supplied by such work is apparent in references to Romance material in Chomsky (1981, 1982), in volumes such as Jaeggli (1982), Rizzi (1982a), Kayne (1984b), Burzio (1986), and in numerous papers devoted to particular constructions in a variety of Romance languages.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1884-9
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    Mathematical Methods in Linguistics (1990)
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic ; Computational linguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Elementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity. The material on logic covers not only the standard statement logic and first-order predicate logic but includes an introduction to formal systems, axiomatization, and model theory. The section on algebra is presented with an emphasis on lattices as well as Boolean and Heyting algebras. Background for recent research in natural language semantics includes sections on lambda-abstraction and generalized quantifiers. Chapters on automata theory and formal languages contain a discussion of languages between context-free and context-sensitive and form the background for much current work in syntactic theory and computational linguistics. The many exercises not only reinforce basic skills but offer an entry to linguistic applications of mathematical concepts. For upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in theoretical linguistics, computer-science students with interests in computational linguistics, logic programming and artificial intelligence, mathematicians and logicians with interests in linguistics and the semantics of natural language
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2213-6
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    Entities and Indices (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400921399
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 41
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    Keywords: Linguistics Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I Multiple Indexing -- 1 A basic intensional language -- 2 ‘Now’ and ‘then’ -- 3 ‘Actually’ -- 4 Indices and world variables -- 5 Mediated relations -- 6 A second-order treatment -- II Ontological Commitment -- 7 Possibilist quantification -- 8 Possibilities -- 9 Intersentential operators -- 10 Substitutional quantification -- 11 Modality and supervenience -- 12 Counterpart theory -- III Indexical Quantification -- 13 Generalized quantifiers -- 14 Quantifiers as indexical operators -- 15 Time and world quantifiers -- 16 Context and indices.
    Abstract: In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers. We say that there has been a hitch in our arrangements or that the solution to the problem required us to examine all the probable outcomes of our action. So it would seem that we speak as if in addition to eloeks, mountains, queens and grains of sand there are hitches, arrangements, solutions, probiems, and probable outcomes. It is not immediately obvious when we must take such ta1k as really assuming that there are such to develop tests for things, and one of the tasks in this book is discerning what has eome to be called ontological commitment, in naturallanguage. Among the entities that natural language appears to make reference to are those connected with temporal and modal discourse, times, possibilities, and so on. Such entities play a crueial role in the kind of semantieal theories that I and others have defended over many years. These theories are based on the idea that an essential part of the meaning of a sentence is constituted by the conditions under whieh that sentenee is true. To know what a sentence says is to know what the world would have to be !ike for that sentence to be true.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2139-9
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    Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability (1990)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Issues in the Theory of Transformations -- 3 A Restrictive Theory of Transformational Grammar -- 4 Filters and Control -- 5 Restricting the Theory of Transformations: a case study -- 6 Learnability, Restrictiveness, and the Evaluation Metric -- 7 On a Lexical Parameter in the Government-Binding Theory -- 8 Core Grammar, Case Theory, and Markedness -- 9 On Certain Substitutes for Negative Data -- 10 On the Nature of Proper Government -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as results on syntactic theory, on learnability, and on acquisition begin to converge. I hope that this book can provide researchers in all of these areas with some insight into the evolution of ideas about these issues. The articles appear in their original form, with the following exceptions: A few typographical and other minor errors have been corrected; bibliog­ raphic references have been updated and a unified bibliography provided. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge my vast intellec­ tual debt to Noam Chomsky. My research would not have been possible without his work, his advice, and his guidance. Next, I offer deep thanks to Chomsky and my other co-authors represented here: Bob Fiengo, Joe Kupin, Bob Freidin, and Mamoru Saito. I am grateful, indeed, for the opportunity to collaborate with such outstanding linguists, and, more immediately, for their permission to reprint their co-authored articles. I also offer general thanks to the holders of the copyrights of the reprinted material. Specific acknowledgements appear on a separate page.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-6859-3
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    On the Definition of Binding Domains in Spanish : Evidence from Child Language (1990)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 11
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Romance languages
    Abstract: 0 Introduction -- 0.1. Introduction -- 0.2. Universal Grammar -- 0.3. Anaphora -- 0.4. Theoretical Motivation -- Notes -- 1. Theoretical Background -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Anaphors and Pronominals within PPs in Simple Sentences -- 1.3. Referential Properties of Pronominal Subjects -- 3.2. Acquisition Issues -- Note -- 2. Previous Acquisition Literature -- 2.1. Development of Locality Principles and Binding Domains -- 2.2. The Role of Lexical Properties of Verbs in Grammatical Anaphora -- 2.3. Acquisition of the Subjunctive in Spanish -- 3. Rationale and Design -- 3.1. Experimental Design: Overview -- 3.2. Experimental Test: General Description -- 3.3. Experimental Design and Hypotheses -- 4. Methods and Procedures -- 4.1. Subjects -- 4.2. General Procedures -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Base Study -- 5.3. Inflection Study -- 5.4. Lexical Class Study -- Notes -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1. Overview Summary and Interpretation of Results -- 6.2. Relation to Previous Acquisition Literature -- 6.3. Conclusions -- References.
    Abstract: Linguistic theory has recently experienced a shift in its conceptual approach from the formulation of descriptively adequate accounts of languages to the definition of principles and parameters claimed to reflect the initial structure of the language faculty, often termed Universal Grammar (UG). Linguistic experience is said to have the effect of guiding the child/linguist in fixing the unspecified parameters of U G to determine the grammar of his/her language. The study of anaphora has been of central concern as it addresses directly the innateness vs. experience issue. On the one hand, it is a part of all natural languages that is largely under­ determined by the data, and must therefore be included in the characterization of the initial state of the language faculty. On the other hand, although the principles that govern anaphora do not exhibit extreme variations across languages, a child/linguist must solve language specific issues for his/her language based on linguistic experience. This book examines a set of linguistic structures from both a theoretical and an experimental perspective. The purpose is to xv PREFACE xvi determine the roles of innateness and of experience in the devel­ opment of a child's theory of anaphora for his/her language.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2033-0
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    Order and Constituency in Mandarin Chinese (1990)
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    Keywords: Chinese language ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Asia—Languages.
    Abstract: 1: Universal Grammar and Word Order -- Notes -- 2: Dimensions of the Case Module -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. Subject and Case -- 2.2. Case Assignees -- 2.3. Conditions on Case Assignment -- Notes -- 3: Single Complementation -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Descriptive/Resultative Expressions -- 3.2. Postverbal PPs -- 3.3. Summary -- Notes -- 4: Multiple Complementation -- 4.0. Introduction -- 4.1. Double Object Structures [V NP2 NP1] -- 4.2. [VNP$$\bar S$$] Structures -- 4.3. [V NP1 gei NP2] and [V gei NP2 NP1] -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 4.5. Alternatives -- Notes -- 5: Lexical and Categorial Properties of Case -- 5.0. Introduction -- 5.1. Raising Structures -- 5.2. Exceptional Case Marking Structures -- 5.3. Existential/Presentative Sentences -- 5.4. Weather Verbs -- 5.5. Expletive Empty Category -- 5.6. Conclusion -- Notes -- 6: Passive, BA, and Topic Constructions -- 6.0. Introduction -- 6.1. The BEI Construction -- 6.2. The BA Construction -- 6.3. Topic Structures -- 6.4. Conclusion -- Notes -- 7: Conclusion -- 7.1. Empirical Consequences -- 7.2. Theoretical Implications -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Recent developments in generative grammar have been very stimulating. The current theory defines a small set of principles that apply to all human languages. Efforts have been made to demonstrate the adequacy of this theory for a wide range of languages. We thus see an interesting interface of theory and empirical data: the study of natural languages contributes to defining the properties of Universal Grammar and the predictions of the theory help in uncovering generalizations regarding natural languages. This book aims to add to this exciting development by showing how the analysis of Mandarin Chinese constituent structures helps to define Case Theory and how interesting generalizations concerning Chinese grammar are uncovered through verification of the theoretical predictions. Starting from the inadequacy of work by Koopman, Li, and Travis on the effect of Case directionality on word order, the book shows that a detailed study of Chinese constituent structures allows us to reduce the phrase structure component to a minimal statement concerning the position of the head in a given phrase. It argues that in a given language the constituent structures can be adequately captured by the interaction of Case Theory, Theta Theory, Government Theory, and X Theory. Long­ standing controversies concerning Chinese basic word order are resolved by showing that underlying word order generalizations can differ from surface word order generalizations.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1898-6
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    Quantification in the Theory of Grammar (1990)
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    ISBN: 9789400919723
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Japanese language ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Semiotics. ; Asia—Languages.
    Abstract: I: Introduction -- 1. wh-phrases as quantificational expressions -- 2. Locality -- 3. Quantificational force -- II: Subjacency and Logical Form -- 1. Introduction -- 2. wh-Movement in Japanese -- 3. Subjacency -- 4. ECP vs. Pied-piping -- III: The Pied-Piping Mechanism -- 1. Percolation -- 2. German relative clauses -- 3. Restrictions on percolation -- 4. Quantifier vs. Sentential operator -- 5. Government and unselective binding -- 6. Concluding remarks -- IV: Construing wh -- 1. ‘Indeterminate pronominals’ -- 2. Unselective binding -- 3. Unselective binding involving wh -- 4. The movement analysis -- 5. Adverbs of quantification -- 6. Scope interactions and QR -- 7. Concluding remarks -- V: The Case from English: The No Matter Concessive Clause -- 1. Problems -- 2. No Matter and wh..Ever constructions -- 3. Donkey sentences -- 4. No Matter as unselective binder -- 5. Concluding remarks -- VI: The Donkey Problem in Japanese -- 1. Weak Crossover -- 2. Donkey sentences in Japanese -- 3. Indirect binding -- 4. Restrictions on indirect binding -- 5. Concluding remarks.
    Abstract: In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind. This book discusses various issues in syntax and logical structure of natural language from theoretical perspectives. The primary data on which theoretical claims are made is drawn from Japanese and Japanese-type languages, but it also contains discussion of related phenomena in English which have never been discussed from the same viewpoint in the current literature. Although the book is written in the format of a version of the Extended Standard Theory tradition, informally referred to as the Principles and Parameters Approach or 'Government and Binding (OB) Theory', it should be of interest to a much wider audience. The reader interested in other theoretical frameworks will find the discussion in this book easily translatable in the framework of his or her choice - in fact, I would like to claim that the problems posed by this book are inevitable in any theory of syntax and semantics of natural language.
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    Language Processing and Language Acquisition (1990)
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    Abstract: The Grammatical Nature of the Acquisition Sequence: Adjoin-a and the Formation of Relative Clauses -- The Status of Grammatical Default Systems: Comments on Lebeaux -- On Unparsable Input in Language Acquisition -- Logical and Psychological Constraints on the Acquisition of Syntax -- How to Make Parameters Work: Comments on Valian -- On Parameter Setting and Parsing: Predictions for Cross-Linguistic Differences in Adult and Child Processing -- Comments on Mazuka and Lust’s paper -- Parameters and Parameter-Setting in a Phrase Structure Grammar -- The Acquisition of Long-distance Rules -- Child Grammars — Radically Different, or More of the Same?: Comments on de Villiers, Roeper and Vainikka -- The Processing and Acquisition of Control Structures by Young Children -- Intuitions, Category and Structure: Comments on McDaniel and Cairns -- Visiting Relatives in Italy -- Obeying the Binding Theory -- Knowledge Integration in Processing and Acquisition: Comments on Grimshaw and Rosen -- List of First Authors.
    Abstract: Studies of language acqUiSItion have largely ignored processing prin­ ciples and mechanisms. Not surprisingly, questions concerning the analysis of an informative linguistic input - the potential evidence for grammatical parameter setting - have also been ignored. Especially in linguistic approaches to language acquisition, the role of language processing has not been prominent. With few exceptions (e. g. Goodluck and Tavakolian, 1982; Pinker, 1984) discussions of language perform­ ance tend to arise only when experimental debris, the artifact of some experiment, needs to be cleared away. Consequently, language pro­ cessing has been viewed as a collection of rather uninteresting perform­ ance factors obscuring the true object of interest, namely, grammar acquisition. On those occasions when parsing "strategies" have been incorporated into accounts of language development, they have often been discussed as vague preferences, not open to rigorous analysis. In principle, however, theories of language comprehension can and should be subjected to the same criteria of explicitness and explanatoriness as other theories, e. g. , theories of grammar. Thus their peripheral role in accounts of language development may reflect accidental factors, rather than any inherent fuzziness or irrelevance to the language acquisition problem. It seems probable that an explicit model of the way(s) processing routines are applied in acquisition would help solve some central problems of grammar acquisition, since these routines regulate the application of grammatical knowledge to novel inputs.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3808-6
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    Phrase Structure in Natural Language (1990)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 21
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax.
    Abstract: 1: Modularity in Underlying Structure -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 On Defining Grammatical Relations in a Modular Theory -- 1.3 What is a Lexical Entry? -- 1.4 The Organization of Argument Structure: the Thematic Hierarchy -- 1.5 Case Theory and the Lexicon -- 1.6 S and S?: Extended X-bar Theory and the Lexical Clause Hypothesis -- 1.7 Dominance, Precedence and Phrase Markers -- Notes -- 2: Syntactic Projection and Licensing -- 2.1 Preliminaries: Licensing, the UTAH, the Projection Principle and the Theta Criterion -- 2.2 X-bar Theory and the Projection of Heads -- 2.3 Licensing Non-head Daughters: Thematic Grids and Thematic Relations -- 2.4 Functional Categories and Licensing -- 2.5 Summary -- Notes -- 3: On Configurationality Parameters -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Parametric Variation in D-Structure Principles -- 3.3 What is a Nonconfigurational Language? -- 3.4 The Empirical Evidence for D-Structure Variation -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- 4: Projection, Pronouns, and Parsing in Navajo Syntax -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 An Overview of Navajo Syntax and Morphology -- 4.3 Parsing, Null Arguments, and Grammatical Relations in Navajo -- 4.4 On Navajo Nominals as Adjuncts -- 4.5 Navajo Agreement and Incorporated Pronouns -- 4.6 Conclusion: Projection from the Lexicon in Navajo -- Notes -- 5: Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2045-3
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