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The third way: object reordering as ambiguous labeling resolution The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Adrian Stegovec
This paper examines free object order alternation in ditransitives, focusing on Slovenian. It is shown that neither a scrambling nor a base generation analysis is fully satisfactory. A new analysis based on the Labeling Algorithm is proposed, where it is argued that the introduction of a second object creates an ambiguous labeling scenario ({NP,VP}), which has two equivalent resolutions: (i) movement
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A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Victor Junnan Pan, Yuqiao Du
This paper proposes a general multi-dimensional derivation model under a free-MERGE system. MERGE indicates the derivational dimensions that participate the computation. Set-MERGE is considered as an operation that keeps the two merge-mates in the same dimension, and Pair-MERGE sends the two merge-mates to two different dimensions. Each dimension has its own Labeling Algorithm (LA); the LA inside one
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Seeking an optimal design of Search and Merge: its consequences and challenges The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Nobu Goto, Toru Ishii
We propose that Merge, both External Merge and Internal Merge, is totally free from Minimal Search, and more specifically, Search Σ to determine the input of Merge only obeys Binarity and the Phase Impenetrability Condition but not Minimal Search (the Minimal Search-free Merge Hypothesis). We argue that our proposal provides a unified account of various movement restrictions, such as the freezing effect
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Large-scale pied-piping in the labeling theory and conditions on weak heads The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Hiromune Oda
This paper discusses the concept of weak head in Chomsky’s (2015. Problems of projection: Extensions. In Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann & Simona Matteini (eds.), Structures, strategies and beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, 3–16. Amsterdam: John Benjamins) sense from a typological perspective. This paper first establishes a novel generalization that large-scale pied-piping is available
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Revisiting agent pseudo-incorporation in Turkish: a dependent case theoretic perspective The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Furkan Dikmen, Ömer Demirok, Ümit Atlamaz
Dependent Case Theory takes accusative to be a dependent case, assigned to an NP only if it is c-commanded by another NP. Agent pseudo-incorporation structures in Turkish, where an accusative object is required to c-command the pseudo-incorporated agent, presents a challenge to the logic of dependent case calculus. We propose a reconciliation that calls for refining the conditions for dependent case
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Chinese tag questions: the CP/DP pro-form analysis The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Liching Livy Chiu
This paper investigates the behaviors of tag questions in Chinese and proposes a unifying analysis involving empty CP/DP pro-forms and predication. It is found that there are universally two types of Tag questions – (i) the invariable type and (ii) the (modal) verbal type, which correspond to the question-types in Chinese syntax. Previous research by Culivocer (1992. English tag questions in Universal
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Displacing the PStem The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Noah Elkins
Much debate in prosodic phonology has centered on the question of recursive prosodic layers versus independent constituents. Recently, Downing and Kadenge (Downing, Laura & Maxwell Kadenge. 2015. Prosodic stems in Zezuru Shona. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 33(3). 291–305, Downing, Laura & Maxwell Kadenge. 2020. Re-placing the PStem in the prosodic hierarchy. The Linguistic
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On the linguistic functions of the particle ʕaad in Jordanian Arabic The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Basem Ibrahim Malawi Al-Raba’a
This paper investigates the linguistic functions of the syncretic particle ʕaad in Jordanian Arabic. It particularly examines the repetitive, evidential, and evaluative functions of ʕaad, and attempts to make some speculations on the source from which this particle could have been originated. Moreover, it explores the syntactic function of each ʕaad, arguing that one ʕaad is an utterance-oriented repetitive
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Coordination versus separation: difference of gapping between Chinese and English and its prosodic attribution The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Baopeng Ma, Di Zhang
In this paper, we have analyzed a whole set of data of gapping in Mandarin Chinese from a novel point of view and fleshed out a bi-sentential derivation analysis for the formation of this construction. While taking the canonical gapping in English as a reference, we have explored some idiomatic properties of the relevant structures in Chinese and summarized core differences: the gapping constructions
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Force mismatch in clausal ellipsis The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Idan Landau
Recent studies reveal that the values of finiteness, tense, modality and polarity in a clause elided under sluicing may be distinct from their correlates in the antecedent clause. Focusing on CP ellipsis in Hebrew (an instance of Argument Ellipsis), we first demonstrate that it is distinct from both Null Complement Anaphora and (null) pronominalization, and then show that the values of force (declarative
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Simplifying the theoretical treatment of wager verbs The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Lisa A. Reed
Since at least Postal (1974. On raising. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press), English has been assumed to possess a class of verbs that does not syntactically tolerate an overt noun phrase in the “usual” subject position of an infinitival complement clause but will allow one if it has undergone passivization, Wh-formation, Heavy-NP Shift, etc. This class of verbs has been variously described as Derived Object
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On the verb-raising analysis of non-constituent coordination in Japanese The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Ryoichiro Kobayashi
This study argues against the verb-raising analysis of Japanese Non-Constituent Coordination (NCC), and consequently supports an alternative analysis with no recourse to verb movement in Narrow Syntax. I show that the verb-raising analysis under-generates regarding VP-fronting in Japanese. Furthermore, I point out that this analysis makes wrong predictions about the scope between heads and elements
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Morphological analysis of alienability contrast in Nuer: an atypical typical case The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Irina Monich
This article presents evidence that alienable versus inalienable possession is distinguished in the morphology of Nuer, a West Nilotic language. Although the distinction in possession type is subtle due to Nuer morphology being mostly non-segmental and is additionally obfuscated by numerous exceptions, we show that Nuer conforms to the well-established typological observation that alienable possessive
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Hanging Topic Left Dislocations as extrasentential constituents: toward a paratactic account. Evidence from English and Spanish The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Julio Villa-García
The paper argues for a bisentential, paratactic account of Hanging Topic Left Dislocations wherein the syntactically unconnected hanging topic phrase is the remnant of an elliptical copulative sentence which is linearly juxtaposed to the second, host sentence. This proposal represents a natural extension of Ott’s system for Clitic Left Dislocations and predicative non-restrictive nominal appositives
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The syntax of wh-phrases, narrow foci, and neg-words in Georgian The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Lena Borise
This paper demonstrates that narrow foci and wh-phrases, even in a language where they have (nearly-)identical surface distributions, do not have the same syntax – and, as such, are not a uniform category. Specifically, it shows that foci and wh-phrases in Georgian appear immediately preverbally but are derived differently. The evidence comes from standard syntactic tests and language-specific ones:
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Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces: neighbourhoods and distances in a lexicalised grammar The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Diego Gabriel Krivochen
Recent work on structure building and mapping in Minimalist syntax makes explicit reference to workspaces; however, it is still an underexplored area. This paper is an attempt to (a) analyse the notion of ‘workspace’ as used in current Minimalist syntax and (b) provide a definition of ‘syntactic workspace’ that can help us capture interesting empirical phenomena. In doing this, we confront set-theoretic
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Optimal place specification, element headedness and surface velar palatalization in Polish The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Sławomir Zdziebko
The paper postulates that the propensity of Polish velar consonants to undergo palatalization is the consequence of the activity of a violable constraint which requires autosegmental place nodes to be associated with one and only one element. Since velars are the only consonants which lack place specification, the spreading of the palatality element |I| onto velars leads to the avoidance of the violation
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Output-conditioned and non-local allomorphy in Armenian theme vowels The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Hossep Dolatian
Cross-linguistically, it is difficult to tease apart allomorphy from readjustment rules. But regardless, both tend to respect locality and are sensitive to information that is present in the input, not the output. We document a counter-example to these tendencies from Western Armenian, and we discuss how the data falsifies such restrictive models of allomorphy. The Western Armenian theme vowel -i-
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Vocative, where do you hang out in wh-interrogatives? The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Laura González López, Svenja Schmid
This paper provides new insights into the analysis of vocative structures that co-occur with a sentence by bridging two previously independent domains of linguistic research: wh-interrogatives and vocatives. More specifically, we investigate in which positions Spanish speakers accept vocatives in wh-interrogatives introduced by different wh-phrases. The results of an acceptability judgment task indicate
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Ablaut in Cairene Arabic The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Radwa Fathi
The vowel alternations relating the perfectives and imperfectives of Form I verbs in Cairene Arabic are examined in this article. It is argued that such alternations are driven by a coherent system of Ablaut (or apophony), the same system as was proposed by Guerssel and Lowenstamm for Classical Arabic. Mounting evidence from unrelated languages strongly suggests that Ablaut systems are organized in
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From relative proadverb to declarative complementizer: the evolution of the Hungarian hogy ʻthatʼ The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Katalin É. Kiss
The declarative complementizer has been claimed to have grammaticalized from a relative pronoun in various Indo-European languages. The source construction is assumed to have been the correlative sentence. The initial phase of the hypothesized process, however, has remained unclear; in the explicative clause to which e.g. the Germanic that-type complementizers can be traced back (Mary knows that, that
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Silent lateral actors: the role of unpronounced nuclei in morpho-phonological analyses The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Edoardo Cavirani
In Government Phonology and its descendants, there is a direct relation between representational complexity and lateral strength, as only melodically filled nuclei can discharge government and licensing. This relation is only broken in special circumstances, e.g. when lateral actorship is granted by a systemic parameter. In this paper, I provide a normalisation of lateral actorship by showing that
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A recursive prefix in Neasu The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Matthias Gerner
Abstract Neasu (Tibeto-Burman: China) exhibits a prefix that derives new coordinators from existing ones by elaborately changing their subcategorial properties. Prefixed and unprefixed coordinators are distinguished by the complement they take (±verbal, ±CoP) and the possibility of being stacked up at least twice (±stackable). A prefixed coordinator has two of these three features switched from “−”
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“Adverbs and functional heads” twenty years later: cartographic methodology, verb raising and macro/micro-variation The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Aquiles Tescari Neto
Abstract Adverbs and Functional Heads: a Cross-Linguistic perspective (Cinque, Guglielmo. 1999. Adverbs and functional heads: A cross-linguistic perspective. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press)—one of the founding works of “Syntactic Cartography”—combines some of the developments in Syntactic Theory from the 1980s and 1990s with insightful contributions from Linguistic Typology. This paper
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No case tampering once transfer domain is formed! The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Marwan Jarrah,Rasheed Al-Jarrah,Ekab Al-Shawashreh
Abstract This research article offers empirical evidence from Standard Arabic (SA) that an existing structural case assigned on an element by one head can be overridden by a new structural case assigned by a different head as long as the element (or one of its copies) has not become part of any previous transfer domain defined by the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC) (see Chomsky, Noam. 2000. Minimalist
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On a dichotomy of question types: the case of Mandarin Chinese and Changsha Xiang The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 One-Soon Her,Dewei Che,Adams Bodomo
Abstract Contrary to the conventional three-way distinction of questions: polar questions, disjunctive questions, and wh-questions, we argue for a more revealing two-way distinction of polar versus constituent questions, the latter with two subtypes: disjunctive and wh-questions. Following Bhatt, Rajesh & Veneeta Dayal. 2020. Polar question particles: Hindi-Urdu kya. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
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Differential subject marking through SE The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Virginia Hill,Monica Alexandrina Irimia
Abstract An outstanding question in current studies concerns the status of Romance SE that does not obviously mark reflexivity or anticausativity. This paper signals the presence of such constructions in Old and Modern Romanian, where SE occurs with unergative verbs and qualifies as pleonastic according to traditional grammars (i.e., it makes no difference for the truth conditions or for the argument
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Parasitic gaps aren’t parasitic, or, the case of the Uninvited Guest The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Peter W. Culicover,Susanne Winkler
Abstract A parasitic gap construction typically occurs when an otherwise illicit gap in an island is ameliorated by a gap elsewhere in the sentence. In this paper, we consider the relationship between the unacceptability of extraction from subject islands (ExtrSubj) and the amelioration associated with parasitic gaps. We argue that there is no parasitic gap mechanism per se that has the effect of making
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Revisiting aspectual se in Spanish: telicity, statives, and maximization The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Gabriel Martínez Vera
Abstract This paper addresses aspectual se in Spanish. Building on the previous analyses that have been proposed in the literature to account for constructions with aspectual se that mainly focus on the syntax of these (see, e.g., MacDonald, Jonathan E. 2017. Spanish aspectual se as an indirect object reflexive: The import of atelicity, bare nouns, and leísta PCC repairs. Probus. International Journal
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Proleptic PPs are arguments: consequences for the argument/adjunct distinction and for selectional switch The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Erik Zyman
Abstract One of the most significant results in syntax has been a deep empirical and, to some degree, theoretical understanding of the argument/adjunct distinction, which underlies a range of superficially disparate phenomena. Therefore, any phenomenon that seems to challenge the argument/adjunct distinction merits careful examination. This paper investigates just such a phenomenon: proleptic PPs.
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The adjunct condition and the nature of adjuncts The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Thomas Ernst
Abstract This paper proposes a Minimalist analysis of the Adjunct Condition. It shows that extraction from adverbial adjuncts is common, and it reviews and extends (Truswell, Robert. 2011. Events, phrases, and questions. Oxford: Oxford University Press analysis), which holds that extractions are grammatical when the adjunct and matrix predicates together constitute a macro-event. Syntactically, a UI
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Decomposing and deducing the Coordinate Structure Constraint The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Hiromune Oda
Abstract The article shows that the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC) can be violated in a number of languages and establishes a novel cross-linguistic generalization regarding languages that allow violations of the CSC. A phase-based deduction of this generalization is then provided under a particular contextual approach to phases. In addition, based on the cross-linguistic data regarding violations
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Why-questions and focus in Italian The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Francesco Beltrame,Cristiano Chesi
Abstract In this study we argue that the appropriateness of an answer to a why-question, potentially bearing on multiple contrast classes, is mainly influenced by the focalized argument, which identifies the relevant reference set. The focalization structure, however, interacts in a non-trivial way with the thematic structure and its accessibility, suggesting a general (independent) prominence of the
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A morphosyntactic analysis of nominal expressive suffixes in Russian and Greek The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Olga Steriopolo,Giorgos Markopoulos,Vassilios Spyropoulos
Abstract This work investigates and compares nominal expressive suffixes in Russian and Greek within the framework of Distributed Morphology. It shows that, although the suffixes under investigation share the same expressive meaning, they differ significantly in their syntactic structure, namely in the manner and place of attachment in the syntactic tree. More specifically, in both languages expressive
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Resultatives and low depictives in English The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Josep Ausensi,Alessandro Bigolin
Abstract We argue against a purely semantic account of the Unique Path Constraint (Goldberg, Adele. 1991. It can’t go down the chimney up: Paths and the English resultative. In Proceedings of the seventeenth annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 368–378.), i.e., the constraint that there can only be one result state in a single clause, and in favor of a syntactic restriction regarding
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How to derive allomorphy: a case study from Czech The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Markéta Ziková,Michaela Faltýnková
Abstract The paper discusses a three-way allomorphic pattern of neuter-gender stems in Czech. We argue that there are two surface alternations involved in the three-stem pattern, i.e. a-e and t-zero, and that the two alternations are driven by two distinct mechanisms, i.e. suppletion and regular phonological computation respectively. We postulate two suppletive stem-building suffixes that are lexically
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Phonological evidence for morpho-syntactic structure in Athapaskan The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Heather Goad,Lisa deMena Travis
Abstract Athapaskan verbal morphology appears to violate the Mirror Principle in multiple ways and, thus, the ordering of affixes in these languages has resisted a straightforward analysis. We adopt a new morphological tool of Iterative Root Prefixation, which allows for a more direct mapping from syntax to morphology in languages of this profile. Apparent violations of affix ordering that remain,
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Two is too much…in the phonology! The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Eva Zimmermann
Abstract A purely phonological account of reduplication based on the affixation of empty prosodic nodes predicts the attested typology of multiple reduplication. Languages that can combine more than one reduplication-triggering morpheme in a word differ in (1) whether all reduplicants surface faithfully, (2) whether they systematically avoid adjacent multiple reduplicants, or (3) whether one of the
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A phonological reanalysis of morphological segment deletion and de-affrication in Ik The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
Abstract Ik presents a widespread pattern of allomorphy characterised by morpheme-specific segment-zero alternations (deletions) and de-affrication. Part of the process is clearly phonological because it applies to every item in the language. Final vowels are devoiced into oblivion, though they are always recoverable in Non-Domain-Final context. Case allomorphy shows various item-specific patterns
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Phonology to the rescue: Nez Perce morphology revisited The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Paul Kiparsky
Abstract Minimalist Morphology predicts that allomorphy is conditioned inward and locally, and that the domains of morphosyntactically and phonologically conditioned allomorphy selection are identical. Amy Rose Deal and Matthew Wolf have put forward two cases of allomorphy in Nez Perce that appear to be conditioned by an outward phonological context. I present an analysis of Nez Perce morphology and
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Size, allomorphy and guttural-final stems in Modern Hebrew The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Noam Faust
Abstract There is a tendency for syncretism between future and infinitive stems in Modern Hebrew. Verbs with final orthographic gutturals do not follow this trend in one verbal type. In another, they do follow it, but their exponent is different from that of regular verbs. Previous studies have claimed that (i) gutturals are represented in Modern Hebrew as a vowel /a/ (Faust, Noam. 2005. The fate of
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Phonological solutions to morphological problems The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Heather Newell,Shanti Ulfsbjorninn
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On the argument structure of complex denominal verbs in Latin: a syntactic approach The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Jaume Mateu
Abstract In this paper I offer a syntactic approach to the formation of complex denominal verbs in Latin. Two basic types of prefixed locative denominal verbs can be distinguished in this language: location ones “agglutinate” a PP expressing location, whereas locatum ones contain a noun expressing the locatum object. Assuming a syntactic distinction between Incorporation and Conflation in denominal
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On event-denoting deadjectival nominalizations The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 María J. Arche,Antonio Fábregas,Rafael Marín
Abstract This paper offers a principled account for the nominalizations of dispositional evaluative adjectives. On the descriptive side, the paper shows that (i) in addition to the largely studied deverbal nominalizations, certain deadjectival nominalizations can also refer to events; (ii) the types of adjectives that enable eventive denotation are of a specific sort, namely, those deriving from Dispositional
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Compositional mechanisms and selectional constraints in syntax and word formation The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Olga Batiukova
Abstract This study compares compositional processes involved in syntax on the one hand and word formation on the other hand within the Generative Lexicon framework. It first shows how semantic types incorporated in a structured lexical entry are acted on by different compositional mechanisms in predicates headed by verbs and in modification constructions, and then analyzes non-evaluative suffixation
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Syncretism of plural forms in Spanish Dialects The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 María Mare
Abstract One of the main discussions about the interaction between morphology and syntax revolves around the richness or poverty of features and wherever this richness/poverty is found either in the syntactic structure or the lexical items. A phenomenon subject to this debate has been syncretism, especially in theories that assume late insertion such as Distributed Morphology. This paper delves into
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Romance and Latin approaches to word structure features The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo,Isabel Pujol Payet
Abstract The interest in morphology and its interaction with the other grammatical components has increased in the last twenty years, with new approaches coming into stage so as to get more accurate analyses of the processes involved in morphological construal. This special issue is a valuable contribution to this field of study. It gathers a selection of five papers from the Morphology and Syntax
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Goal, source, and route preverbs in Latin: their interaction with spatial datives The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Víctor Acedo-Matellán
Abstract Prefixed verbs in Latin may take an argument in the dative case, interpreted as the ground of the spatial relation codified by the preverb. This phenomenon is constrained by the semantics of that spatial relation: while preverbs encoding a location, a goal, or a source of motion generally accept the dative argument, preverbs encoding a route do not. I propose a syntactic analysis of this phenomenon
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Italian preconsonantal s-voicing is not regressive voice assimilation The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Bálint Huszthy
Abstract In the literature of laryngeal phonology Romance languages are considered voice languages, exhibiting a binary distinction between a voiced lenis and a voiceless fortis set of obstruents. Voice languages are characterised by regressive voice assimilation (RVA) due to the phonological activity of [voice]. Italian manifests a process similar to RVA, called preconsonantal s-voicing; that is,
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¡Mira! The grammar-attention interface in the Spanish left periphery The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Laura González López,Andreas Trotzke
Abstract In this paper, we focus on Spanish hearer-oriented particles like the highly frequent verb-based particle mira (lit. ‘look’). We provide a detailed syntactic account of these particles by demonstrating (i) that they must be distinguished from both vocative/appellative and expressive/exclamative particles, and (ii) that they feature illocutionary restrictions familiar from the class of discourse
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Embracing multidimensionality in phonological analysis The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Abigail C. Cohn,Margaret E. L. Renwick
Abstract We pursue the idea, implicit in much current phonological research, that understanding the multiple factors that shape speech production and perception is within the purview of phonology. In particular, increased access to naturalistic data has highlighted the multidimensional reality of variation in spoken language. At the same time, longstanding methods of doing phonology – including impressionistic
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Prominence conditioned transformation in metrical analysis The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 John Frampton
Abstract Crowhurst and Michael (2005) develops an OT analysis of the complex word stress system of Nanti, an Amazonian language of the Kampa group. They claim that the difficulty of developing a transformational analysis of the system clearly demonstrates the superiority of OT. One goal of this paper is to show that their claim is false and the complexities of the system are well within the scope of
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On Phase-over-Phase Configurations and phase collapsing: wh-extraction in V + de + CP clauses in Spanish The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-10-25 Gabriel Martínez Vera
AbstractThis paper discusses wh-extraction in Spanish clauses involving a V + de + CP sequence (de ‘of’ is a preposition). The previous literature has observed that objects, but not adjuncts, can be extracted from a single de + CP embedded clause. I make the following novel observations: (i) subjects pattern with adjuncts (not with objects) in that they cannot be extracted from a single de + CP embedded
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On necessary conditional marking and proposition suspension: The meaning of the Spanish construction si es que The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Asela Reig Alamillo
Abstract This paper offers a unified analysis of the coded meaning of Spanish conditional marker si es que: it conventionally conveys conditionality and the speaker’s lack of commitment to the proposition. This second meaning differentiates si es que from the general conditional marker si. It is also argued that si es que has two values: suspending a proposition and expressing a necessary condition
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General location across languages: On the division of labour between functional and lexical items in spatial categories The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Francesco-Alessio Ursini
Abstract In many languages, it is possible to describe the location of any entity with respect to a landmark object without specifying the exact place that the locatum occupies (e.g. English at in at home). Such vocabulary items usually contrast with items that belong to the same categories but have more restricted senses (e.g. on top of in on top of the shelf). Thus, the degree of “abstractness” that
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Re-placing PStem in the prosodic hierarchy The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Laura J. Downing, Maxwell Kadenge
Abstract A persistent issue for the Prosodic Hierarchy is what repertory of prosodic constituents is needed to define the commonly recurring domains for phonological processes. Even though there is a long tradition of work arguing in favor of up to three subphrasal constituents (Composite Group (CG), PWord and PStem), a body of recent work has argued in favor of a more parsimonious view of the repertory
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Deriving clitic cluster formation through movement: A dialectal case study from Spanish The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Ian James Romain
Abstract In light of recent work on syntactic head movement and clitic movement in Phase Theory, this paper argues for a feature-based, head-movement account of argumental object clitics in Spanish. The novelty of the proposal outlined in this paper is the extension of a movement approach to indirect object (IO) clitics, which are commonly regarded in the literature as base-generated verb-agreement
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Copular constructions, existentials and related phenomena. An introduction The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 Francesca Ramaglia,Mara Frascarelli
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Notes on Expletive There The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 Richard S. Kayne
Abstract Sentences with the verb exist and with a lexical DP in subject position show no definiteness effect. This suggests that the definiteness effect is keyed in English to the presence of expletive there. More strongly put, a definiteness effect is invariably found whenever expletive there (or a counterpart of it in other languages, whether pronounced or not) is present. This effect may in some
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An interface analysis of marked copular constructions: The case of there-sentences The Linguistic Review (IF 0.581) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 Francesca Ramaglia
Abstract This paper proposes an interface account of existential sentences, in which the examination of the semantic, morphosyntactic, discourse and prosodic properties of these and related constructions is aimed to explore the similarities and differences with other types of IS-marked copular structures. In particular, a structural parallelism is proposed between existentials and clefts, as well as