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Syntax is not unique to human language–the Japanese great tits “speak” in phrases too
Syntax human language Japanese great speak phrases
2016/3/21
Language is one of humans’ most important defining characteristics. It allows us to generate innumerable expressions from a finite number of vocal elements and meanings, and underlies the evolution of...
This article explores a combination of deep and shallow approaches to the problem of resolving
the scope of speculation and negation within a sentence, specifically in the domain of biomedical
...
Relative embeddings: A Circassian puzzle for the syntax/semantics interface
relative clauses headless relatives
2015/9/6
This paper documents and analyzes the pattern used in the Northwest Caucasian
language Adyghe (Circassian) to express what the following five different constructions convey in
other languages: heade...
Asymmetries between person and number in syntax: A commentary on Baker’s SCOPA
syntax person and number grammar
2015/9/6
This paper is a commentary on Baker’s “When Agreement is for Number and Gender
but not Person”. In many contexts, the behavior of person agreement departs from that of
number and/or gender agreement...
In this programmatic paper, we articulate a minimalist conception of linguistic composition, syntactic and semantic, with the aim of identifying fundamental operations invoked by the human faculty of ...
The syntax of goals and beneficiaries in Standard Modern Greek, to appear in Studies
goals beneficiaries
2015/8/7
In this paper, we investigate the syntax of Standard Modern Greek (SMG) and English goal and
benefactive ditransitive constructions. SMG poses an interesting challenge to the view that there is
a fi...
The present study explored the processes by which people understand sentences. Simple sentences with subjects, verbs and objects, but with specific semantic anomalies, were constructed from naturally ...
On the Syntax and Semantics of the Word paljon in Finnish
Syntax Semantics of the Word paljon Finnish
2015/6/18
On the Syntax and Semantics of the Word paljon in Finnish.
Spoken syntax:The phonetics of giving a hand in New Zealand English
Spoken syntax giving a hand New Zealand English
2015/6/17
This article considers the exemplar theories which are independently developing in phonetics and in syntax, and argues that they jointly make some predictions that neither does alone. One of these pre...
Gradient grammar: An effect of animacy on the syntax of give in New Zealand and American English
New Zealand English US English Dative alternation Animacy Probabilistic grammar
2015/6/17
Bresnan et al. (2007) show that a statistical model can predict United States (US) English speakers’ syntactic choices with ‘give’-type verbs extremely accurately. They argue that these results are co...
Carrying the New Wave into Syntax: the Case of Black English BIN
New Wave into Syntax Black English BIN
2015/6/16
Carrying the New Wave into Syntax: the Case of Black English BIN.
Russian prepositions and prefixes:unifying prosody and syntax
Russian prepositions prefixes prosody syntax
2015/6/15
In this paper we explore the connection between syntax and prosody, with an empirical focus on Russian prepositions (PREP) and prefixes (PFX). These items are largely homophonous and show a parallel s...
Comparative economy conditions in natural language syntax
Comparative economy natural language syntax
2015/6/15
The most conceptually drastic change in natural language syntactic theory in recent years is the introduction of economy conditions (ECs). Although there is not a unified formal notion of economy, the...
No Vacuous Quantification Constraints in Syntax
No Vacuous Quantification Constraints Syntax
2015/6/15
Much recent work appeals to a ban on vacuous quantification (NO VACUOUS QUANTIFICATION, henceforth NVQ) that operates not merely as a criterion of non-redundancy in an informal semantic sense but is a...