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Preliminary notes on the Merge position of deictic, anaphoric, distal and proximal demonstratives
Get PDFIn many languages the same demonstrative forms can be used either deictically (to point to some entity present in the speech act situation) or anaphorically (to refer back to some entity already mentioned in the previous discourse). In other languages deictic and anaphoric demonstratives are expressed by different forms, and in a subset of the latter group of languages the deictic and anaphoric demonstratives can co-occur, in a certain order. The two thus appear to be merged in different positions of the nominal extended projection, with deictic demonstratives arguably merged higher than anaphoric demonstratives, as is more clearly evident in certain languages. I submit that this is true of all languages even if most do not provide any overt indication of a different Merge positions. Some languages also appear to provide evidence that distal and proximal demonstratives are merged in distinct positions of the nominal extended projection
The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner
Get PDF‘The Sign of the V’ is a festschrift in honour of Sten Vikner, written by friends, colleagues, and collaborators, present and past, to celebrate both his 60th birthday and his contribution to the field of linguistics. The papers cover a wide range of topics in theoretical and empirical linguistic research, from phonetics and phonology, through morphology, semantics, and syntax, to pragmatics, as well as language acquisition, second-language learning, language processing, language teaching, language contact, historical linguistics, and language variation and change. Many different languages are featured, including the Scandinavian languages (i.e. Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish), Catalan, Dutch, English, Finnish, West Flemish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Scots, and Yiddish. The scope and depth of the chapters in this anthology is a clear indication of the scope and depth of Sten Vikner’s own comparative research well as his impact on the field of linguistics.‘The Sign of the V’ is a festschrift in honour of Sten Vikner, written by friends, colleagues, and collaborators, present and past, to celebrate both his 60th birthday and his contribution to the field of linguistics. The papers cover a wide range of topics in theoretical and empirical linguistic research, from phonetics and phonology, through morphology, semantics, and syntax, to pragmatics, as well as language acquisition, second-language learning, language processing, language teaching, language contact, historical linguistics, and language variation and change. Many different languages are featured, including the Scandinavian languages (i.e. Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish), Catalan, Dutch, English, Finnish, West Flemish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Scots, and Yiddish. The scope and depth of the chapters in this anthology is a clear indication of the scope and depth of Sten Vikner’s own comparative research well as his impact on the field of linguistics
From macro to nano: A parametric hierarchy approach to the diatopic and diachronic variation of Italian ben
No full textIn this squib we discuss the morpho-syntactic requirements affecting the distribution of the Italian discourse particle ben (lit. ‘well’) as employed in a selection of regional varieties of the language, we present a preliminary comparison with its attestations in earlier stages of the language and we show how the attested diatopic and diachronic variation may be modelled in terms of a parameter hierarchy of the type developed by the ReCoS team
Constructionist OT. The case of German verb inflection
No full textVogel R. Constructionist OT. The case of German verb inflection. In: Christensen KR, Jorgensen H, Wood J, Aarhus University, eds. The Sign of the V. Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner. Aarhus: AU Library Scholarly Publishing Services; 2019: 685-707
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No full text(The beginning or end of hand-outs will not necessarily coincide with the beginning or end of particular sessions) There is no required reading for this course, except for the hand-outs. Nevertheless, here are three background papers and four (SynCom) overview papers, which can be downloaded from the course web page, www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/engsv/papers/stuttgart/. Credit: If you want to take the course for credit, you will have to attend regularly and also submit a short paper (5-6 pages) on a topic related to the course. Vikner: Germanic SOV/SVO, part I, p. 2 Abstract This hand-out will give an introduction to the overall clause structure of the Germanic languages and introduce the necessary concepts, including Verb second (V2), V°-to-I°movement and the difference between SVO-languages and SOV-languages (may often also be referred to simply as VO-languages and OV-languages)
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No full textSuch is Abstract We investigate the etymologically related words: so and such (English); så and sådan (Danish); and so and solch (German). Similarities and differences that have to be accounted for cross-linguistically are i) position (pre-or post-indefinite article), ii) semantics (degree or referential readings) and iii) agreement morphology (in Danish and German). English such may have either a degree reading or an identifying (referential) reading and may only precede the indefinite article. Danish and German allow inflected sådan/solch to follow the article. English and Danish so/så only have a degree reading, while German so may be identifying. We discuss two possible syntactic derivations, predicate raising and XP movement from an attributive adjective position within the nominal. The analysis accounts for the morphological agreement of predicate and attributive adjectives in Danish and German
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Trees and Fields and Negative Polarity
No full textThe paper takes as its point of departure a comparison between two kinds of approaches to clause structure, namely tree analyses like the generative analysis and field analyses like the sætningsskema analysis of Danish of Diderichsen (1946) and many others (or like the topologische Modell analysis of German of Drach 1937 and many others).The particular difference between the two kinds of analyses which I explore in this paper concerns c-command, which is a relationship between different constituents in a clause. I shall try to show how useful and indispensable c-command is when it comes to accounting for negative polarity items in English, Danish and German, both the more straightforward aspects and the more complex ones, e.g. the so-called NPI-verbs as well as the interaction between NPI-elements and because-clauses.</jats:p
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