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Grammatical functions in the (Old English) Noun Phrase
No full textNoun phrase grammatical functions and the internal syntax of the noun phrase more generally have taken a back seat in Lexical Functional Grammar compared to work on grammatical functions in the verbal domain, and there remains no consensus as to the number and nature of grammatical functions postulated within the nominal domain. Outstanding issues include the validity and appeal of using traditionally verbal grammatical functions within the noun phrase, the characteristics of some distinctly nominal grammatical functions, and the diagnostic criteria used to identify grammatical functions in the noun phrase. This paper explores questions surrounding the identity and characteristics of noun-phrase internal grammatical functions, using newly collected empirical data from Old English to highlight the successes and pitfalls of previous accounts. The paper also makes tentative suggestions for two grammatical functions for the Old English noun phrase: a primary unrestricted function POSS, accounting for low valency in the noun phrase and instantiated not only by possessors but also by prepositional phrases and clausal complements, and a highly marginal oblique grammatical function
A Constraint-based Approach to Anaphoric and Logophoric Binding in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese
No full textThis paper proposes an LFG constraint-based approach to binding in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. We illustrate the power of LFG’s f-structure in developing a formal model which is, in essence, a unifying proposal integrating syntactic anaphoric binding with pragmatically-rooted but grammaticised logophoric binding. The anaphoric-binding component of our model resolves the local binding of complex reflexives and that of simplex reflexives, whereas the logophoric-binding component handles the long-distance binding of simplex reflexives. Our view that Chinese binding is best explained by a dual system encompassing syntactic (anaphoric) and pragmatic (logophoric) aspects is in line with Huang and Liu (2001). While it is not easy for a syntactic theory to accommodate logophoric binding, the LFG formalism has a high degree of flexibility, allowing it to model both types of binding while maintaining its formal, mathematical rigour. Our constraint-based proposal offers an alternative binding theory in response to recent Minimalist proposals on Chinese binding (e.g., Giblin, 2016; Reuland, Wong & Everaert, 2020), opening up a cross-theoretical dialogue. We establish the notion of grammaticised logophoricity in Chinese binding in connection with crosslinguistic studies. Empirically, we examine a range of data to clarify properties of Chinese reflexives and settle past debates, in particular, the animacy debate in relation to typological research on adnominal possession. The comparison between Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese contributes to the comparative study of binding phenomena in Sinitic languages
A Constraint-based Approach to Anaphoric and Logophoric Binding in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese
No full textThis paper proposes an LFG constraint-based approach to binding in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. We illustrate the power of LFG’s f-structure in developing a formal model which is, in essence, a unifying proposal integrating syntactic anaphoric binding with pragmatically-rooted but grammaticised logophoric binding. The anaphoric-binding component of our model resolves the local binding of complex reflexives and that of simplex reflexives, whereas the logophoric-binding component handles the long-distance binding of simplex reflexives. Our view that Chinese binding is best explained by a dual system encompassing syntactic (anaphoric) and pragmatic (logophoric) aspects is in line with Huang and Liu (2001). While it is not easy for a syntactic theory to accommodate logophoric binding, the LFG formalism has a high degree of flexibility, allowing it to model both types of binding while maintaining its formal, mathematical rigour. Our constraint-based proposal offers an alternative binding theory in response to recent Minimalist proposals on Chinese binding (e.g., Giblin, 2016; Reuland, Wong & Everaert, 2020), opening up a cross-theoretical dialogue. We establish the notion of grammaticised logophoricity in Chinese binding in connection with crosslinguistic studies. Empirically, we examine a range of data to clarify properties of Chinese reflexives and settle past debates, in particular, the animacy debate in relation to typological research on adnominal possession. The comparison between Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese contributes to the comparative study of binding phenomena in Sinitic languages
Grammatical functions in the (Old English) Noun Phrase
No full textNoun phrase grammatical functions and the internal syntax of the noun phrase more generally have taken a back seat in Lexical Functional Grammar compared to work on grammatical functions in the verbal domain, and there remains no consensus as to the number and nature of grammatical functions postulated within the nominal domain. Outstanding issues include the validity and appeal of using traditionally verbal grammatical functions within the noun phrase, the characteristics of some distinctly nominal grammatical functions, and the diagnostic criteria used to identify grammatical functions in the noun phrase. This paper explores questions surrounding the identity and characteristics of noun-phrase internal grammatical functions, using newly collected empirical data from Old English to highlight the successes and pitfalls of previous accounts. The paper also makes tentative suggestions for two grammatical functions for the Old English noun phrase: a primary unrestricted function POSS, accounting for low valency in the noun phrase and instantiated not only by possessors but also by prepositional phrases and clausal complements, and a highly marginal oblique grammatical function
Grammatical functions in the (Old English) Noun Phrase
No full textNoun phrase grammatical functions and the internal syntax of the noun phrase more generally have taken a back seat in Lexical Functional Grammar compared to work on grammatical functions in the verbal domain, and there remains no consensus as to the number and nature of grammatical functions postulated within the nominal domain. Outstanding issues include the validity and appeal of using traditionally verbal grammatical functions within the noun phrase, the characteristics of some distinctly nominal grammatical functions, and the diagnostic criteria used to identify grammatical functions in the noun phrase. This paper explores questions surrounding the identity and characteristics of noun-phrase internal grammatical functions, using newly collected empirical data from Old English to highlight the successes and pitfalls of previous accounts. The paper also makes tentative suggestions for two grammatical functions for the Old English noun phrase: a primary unrestricted function POSS, accounting for low valency in the noun phrase and instantiated not only by possessors but also by prepositional phrases and clausal complements, and a highly marginal oblique grammatical function
A Constraint-based Approach to Anaphoric and Logophoric Binding in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese
No full textThis paper proposes an LFG constraint-based approach to binding in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. We illustrate the power of LFG’s f-structure in developing a formal model which is, in essence, a unifying proposal integrating syntactic anaphoric binding with pragmatically-rooted but grammaticised logophoric binding. The anaphoric-binding component of our model resolves the local binding of complex reflexives and that of simplex reflexives, whereas the logophoric-binding component handles the long-distance binding of simplex reflexives. Our view that Chinese binding is best explained by a dual system encompassing syntactic (anaphoric) and pragmatic (logophoric) aspects is in line with Huang and Liu (2001). While it is not easy for a syntactic theory to accommodate logophoric binding, the LFG formalism has a high degree of flexibility, allowing it to model both types of binding while maintaining its formal, mathematical rigour. Our constraint-based proposal offers an alternative binding theory in response to recent Minimalist proposals on Chinese binding (e.g., Giblin, 2016; Reuland, Wong & Everaert, 2020), opening up a cross-theoretical dialogue. We establish the notion of grammaticised logophoricity in Chinese binding in connection with crosslinguistic studies. Empirically, we examine a range of data to clarify properties of Chinese reflexives and settle past debates, in particular, the animacy debate in relation to typological research on adnominal possession. The comparison between Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese contributes to the comparative study of binding phenomena in Sinitic languages
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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