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GLOW 2013 Abstract named Synchronic Systems in Diachronic Change: The Role of Contrast B. Elan Dresher, Christopher Harvey, and Will Oxford University of Toronto Our paper addresses a question raised in the workshop prospectus, namely ‘how innovation comes into being and, once it has occurred, enters the synchronic computational system’. As suggested there, our account involves the relation betwee
GLOW Workshop Velar/coronal asymmetry in phonemic patterns and historical change: a unified account Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho1 & Ali Tifrit2 (1UMR 7023 – Université Paris 8, 2LLing – Université de Nantes) The three major classes of consonants as regards the place of articulation – labials, coronals and dorsals – exhibit asymmetrical behaviour both in phonemic inventories (§ 1) and in historical
Reflexivity without reflexives Eric Reuland, Anna Volkova1 Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, Universiteit Utrecht Background: What prevents pronominals from being locally bound? Does this a) reflect an intrinsic property of pronominals (Chomsky 1981), is it b) a relative (economy) effect, that only shows up where there is a more dedicated competitor (see from different perspectives, Safir 2004
The directionality of agreement and nominal concord in Zazaki Maziar Toosarvandani and Coppe van Urk Massachusetts Institute of Technology We investigate two issues in the theory of agreement from the perspective of nominal con- cord in Zazaki. First, does Agree operate downward, upward, or in both directions (Adger 2003, Baker 2008, Zeijlstra 2012, Preminger 2012)? Second, does nominal concord ma
GLOW Martin Hinzen THE GRAMMAR OF THE ESSENTIAL INDEXICAL Txuss Martín & Wolfram Hinzen, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK Pronouns are said to uniquely exhibit ‘essentially indexical’ forms of referential use (KAPLAN 1989, PERRY 1993, LEWIS 1983): for example, ‘I’ does not mean ‘the speaker’ or ‘Bob’, even if I utter ‘I’ and am Bob. Commonly, the phenomenon is modeled formal-semanti
Microsoft Word - glow36 named Anti-reconstruction, anti-agreement and the dynamics of A-movement Gary Thoms, University of Edinburgh In this paper we propose an analysis of agreement-based antireconstruction effects. Focusing on British 'team DPs', we show that reconstruction seems to be subject to a representational condition barring the interpretation of non-exhaustively-agreeing DPs in 'agreeme
Covert without overt: QR for movementless parsing frameworks Asad Sayeed and Vera Demberg, MMCI Cluster of Excellence, Saarland University After a two-decade period of relative absence, rich linguistic representation is returning to engineering applications, particularly incremental parsing and spoken dialogue systems. How- ever, for reasons of structural ambiguity avoidance and representational c
Don’t scope your universal quantifier over negation! Mojmı́r Dočekal & Hana Strachoňová There has been a lot of attention in the literature given to the factors which decide the relative scope of logical operators in the interpretation of sentences. One of the crucial factors was claimed to be information structure (Jackendoff 1972, Hajičová 1975, Büring 1997, a.o.). One of the most importan
Limits on Noun-suppletion Beata Moskal, University of Connecticut (beata.moskal@uconn.edu) Suppletion refers to the phenomenon in which a single lexical item is associated with two phonologically unrelated forms, the choice of form depending on the morphosyntactic context. Consider the familiar example of the good-better-best paradigm, in which the adjective root surfaces as good in isolation but
Marginal contrast, categorical allophony, and the Contrastivist Hypothesis Yuni Kim University of Manchester Recent work in phonology has reinvigorated debates on the classic issue of the relationship between phonemic contrast, representational feature specifications, and phonological activity. The Contrastivist Hypothesis (Hall 2007, Dresher 2009) states that only contrastive values of a feature
Motivating head movement: The case of negative inversion in West Texas English Sabina Matyiku (sabina.matyiku@yale.edu) Yale University Negative inversion (or Declarative Negative Auxiliary Inversion) is a phenomenon present in some varieties of North American English such as African American English, Appalachian English, and West Texas English (WTE). Constructions exhibiting negative inversion ar
Pro-drop as ellipsis: evidence from the interpretation of null arguments Maia Duguine University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU & University of Nantes GOAL. In this talk, I defend a DP/NP-ellipsis (DPE) analysis of pro-drop cross-linguistically. 1 PRO-DROP AS DPE. The standard view is that there are different types of pro-drop phenomena across languages (cf. recently Holmberg 2010); e.g. DPE is at
General session Raising to Object from finite CPs: dual A/A-bar and MCC Gabriela Alboiu & Virginia Hill Issue. In colloquial Romanian (Rom) verbs expressing knowledge from reasoning (e.g. cunosc, ştiu ‘know’) or inference (e.g. văd ‘see/realize’, aud ‘hear/find out’) allow for the thematic subject of their embedded clause to surface either in the finite indicative complement CP, with NOM spell-out
1 Sachs The Semantics of Hindi Multi-Head Correlatives Konstantin Sachs (University of Tübingen) Introducing Hindi Correlatives: Correlatives are biclausal structures which consist of pairs of topic and comment clauses. (Bittner (2001)) The first of which is structured like a relative clause, while the other contains a demonstrative item that refers to what is described in the relative. In Hindi,
Who triggers focus intervention effects? Haoze Li and Jess Law The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1 Introduction This paper concerns focus intervention effects (FIEs) in Chinese. Specifically, when wh-words are preceded by focus particles and their focused associates, wh-questions become ungrammatical (1) (focus particles are boldfaced and their focused associates are underlined throughout). (1)
Microsoft Word - EngNorw_biling.docx Cross-linguistic influence and structural overlap affecting English verb placement It is well-known that although bilingual children clearly separate their languages from very early on (cf. e.g. Genesee 1989, Meisel 1989), cross-linguistic influence between the child’s languages is a fairly common phenomenon. Various proposals have been put forward to account f
The importance of typological proximity for the acquisition of clitic objects in Italian/French in simultaneous vs successive bilingualism Petra Bernardini (Lund University) This study concerns the acquisition of third person object clitic pronouns (OCL) in Italian and French in bilingual (successive vs simultaneous) and monolingual preschool children and is based on an elicitation task. It addres
NorEngDP-GLOW2013 1 Word order and definiteness in the Norwegian DP: Complexity, frequency and structural similarity in bilingual acquisition and attrition Nowegian DP constructions are relatively complex, especially compared to English. Norwegian possessives may be pre- or postnominal (1a, b), while English possessives are always prenominal (1c). The distinction between the two word orders in
Microsoft Word - GLOW_Sheehan_Biolinguistics_2012_1.docx A parameter hierarchy approach to alignment Michelle Sheehan, University of Cambridge Following the format in [1], this paper presents an attempt to characterize the general parameter hierarchy governing case/agreement alignment in (i) clauses and (ii) ditransitives, arguing that a unified approach has rich empirical support as well as conce
TrotzkeBader_GLOW2013 1 Against usage-based approaches to recursion: The grammar-performance distinction in a biolinguistic perspective Andreas Trotzke (Konstanz) & Markus Bader (Frankfurt) Keywords: syntax; processing; recursion; center-embedding; third factor The distinction between grammar and performance distinguishes the biolinguistic approach to language from other cognitive accounts such as
