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Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy 华维元音复制中的传播和对应
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09601-5
Yuni Kim
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The emergence of case matching in discontinuous DPs 不连续 DP 中出现的情况匹配
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09597-y
Emily Clem, Virginia Dawson
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The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese 有限控制的词汇语义：日语视角
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-024-09613-9
Koyo Akuzawa, Yusuke Kubota
{"title":"The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese","authors":"Koyo Akuzawa, Yusuke Kubota","doi":"10.1007/s11049-024-09613-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-024-09613-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we propose a semantic analysis of control verbs in Japanese that take finite clauses marked by the nominalizer <i>koto</i>. We argue for an analysis in which the invisible subject of the embedded clause is a run-of-the-mill zero pronoun and where the obligatory coreference relation between the controller and the embedded subject is mediated by a primarily semantic factor. At the heart of our analysis lies the idea that there is a common underlying meaning shared across apparently heterogeneous classes of <i>koto</i>-taking control verbs, which consists of a causal relation between a volitional action inherent in the meaning of the verb and a <i>de se</i> attitude denoted by the embedded clause. The semantic analysis we offer not only explains language-internal properties of Japanese control verbs with respect to tense morpheme distribution that have been attributed to syntactic factors in the previous literature, but it also suggests a hitherto unnoticed possible cross-linguistic generalization about finite control and embedded tense interpretation which we dub ‘hypothesis of relative tense in finite control.’</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139911319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton 布列塔尼人称限制的兴衰
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09598-x
Milan Rezac
{"title":"The rise and fall of a person-case constraint in Breton","authors":"Milan Rezac","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09598-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09598-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work explores the coupling of person-split nominative objects with anomalous subjects (Jahnsson’s Rule (JR), Person-Case Constraint (PCC)). In Breton, split-nominative objects spread from an Icelandic-like combination with oblique subjects of unaccusatives, to Finnish-like combinations with subjects of transitives in constructions like the imperative, and then retreated piecewise. These changes admit of externalist sources, such as frequency entrenchment and analogy over clitic forms, but are bounded by persistent coupling of split-nominative objects with anomalous subjects, and disfavour external sources for it like ambiguity avoidance. An approach is set out through constraints on <i>φ</i>-dependencies, their relationship to case and licensing, and their interaction with grammaticalisable partial <i>φ</i>-specification, building on other work on JR/PCC. The anomalies of the restricting subject are analysed as person-only specification, and extended from quirky obliques to pronouns minimal in absence of number + n/N: imperative <i>pro</i> and human impersonals. The ineffability or accusative of the restricted persons is analysed through the integration of dependent case into Φ/Case theory but apparent syntactic variation is modelled through externalisation.</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139760308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison 范式统一对法国联络的影响
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09596-z
Benjamin Storme
{"title":"Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison","authors":"Benjamin Storme","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09596-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09596-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>French liaison is a type of external sandhi involving the use of a special consonant-final allomorph before vowel-initial words. Consonants occurring at the end of these allomorphs are challenging for phonological theory because of evidence that their prosodic and segmental realization is intermediate between the realizations of word-final and word-initial consonants. This puzzling behavior of French liaison has been used to motivate new phonological and lexical representations, including floating consonants, lexical constructions and gradient symbolic representations. This paper proposes an alternative analysis: the variable realization of liaison is derived as a paradigm uniformity effect, assuming traditional phonological and lexical representations. In a Word1-Word2 sequence, the liaison consonant at the boundary between the two words ends up acquiring properties of both word-final and word-initial consonants because of a pressure to make contextual variants of Word1 and Word2 similar to their citation forms. The proposal is implemented in a probabilistic constraint-based grammar including paradigm uniformity constraints and is shown to account for the intermediate behavior of liaison both in terms of prosodic attachment and segmental realization. The paper provides evidence for two key predictions of this analysis, using judgment data on the prosodic attachment of liaison consonants in European French and phonetic data on the interaction between liaison and affrication in Quebec French.</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139760214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Type-shifting in headless relative clauses 无头相对从句中的类型转换
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09595-0
Carol Rose Little, Scott AnderBois, Jessica Coon
{"title":"Type-shifting in headless relative clauses","authors":"Carol Rose Little, Scott AnderBois, Jessica Coon","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09595-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09595-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which principles are needed to govern their distribution (Carlson 1977; Partee 1987; Chierchia 1998; Dayal 2004; i.a.). At the same time, literature on headless relative clauses (HRCs), primarily focusing on free relatives (FRs) in Indo-European languages, has also developed type-shifting principles (Jacobson 1995; Caponigro 2003, 2004). The type-shifting principles from the FR literature, however, are fundamentally different than those found in proposals for bare nouns. Here, we present case studies from two Mayan languages which diverge from one another in the behavior of bare nouns, and which possess several different kinds of headless relative clauses. We show that “super-free relative clauses” (Caponigro et al. 2021; Caponigro 2022), which lack a wh-word, pattern in ways parallel to bare nouns in the respective languages. We also demonstrate that HRCs headed by a wh-word—i.e., FRs—diverge from bare nouns; they pattern similarly to one another across the languages under investigation, and in ways similar to what has been reported for FRs crosslinguistically. We provide evidence that there is a dedicated FR type-shifter (FR-<i>ι</i>) used as a post-syntactic mechanism to repair a type-mismatch at the CP level, building on work by Caponigro (2004). Our novel contribution is that this type-shifter is available regardless of the presence or absence of other type-shifters in a language. This paper adds new data to our understanding of the range and applicability of different definiteness-related type-shifters as well as captures certain typological tendencies regarding HRCs.</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139584786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond 重新分析 "说 "的互补性：对案例理论及其他方面的影响
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09594-1
Travis Major
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Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors 控制论与逻各斯代词和逻各斯使用拟声词之间的关系
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09592-3
Mark C. Baker, Shiori Ikawa
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Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction 弱决定论与相互作用的计算后果
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09578-1
Eric Meinhardt, Anna Mai, Eric Baković, Adam McCollum
{"title":"Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction","authors":"Eric Meinhardt, Anna Mai, Eric Baković, Adam McCollum","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09578-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09578-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent work has claimed that (non-tonal) phonological patterns are <i>subregular</i> (Heinz 2011a,b, 2018; Heinz and Idsardi 2013), occupying a delimited proper subregion of the regular functions—the <i>weakly deterministic</i> (WD) functions (Heinz and Lai 2013; Jardine 2016). Whether or not it is correct (McCollum et al. 2020a), this claim can only be properly assessed given a complete and accurate definition of WD functions. We propose such a definition in this article, patching unintended holes in Heinz and Lai’s (2013) original definition that we argue have led to the incorrect classification of some phonological patterns as WD. We start from the observation that WD patterns share a property that we call <i>unbounded semiambience</i>, modeled after the analogous observation by Jardine (2016) about non-deterministic (ND) patterns and their <i>unbounded circumambience</i>. Both ND and WD functions can be broken down into compositions of deterministic (subsequential) functions (Elgot and Mezei 1965; Heinz and Lai 2013) that read an input string from opposite directions; we show that WD functions are those for which these deterministic composands do not <i>interact</i> in a way that is familiar from the theoretical phonology literature. To underscore how this concept of interaction neatly separates the WD class of functions from the strictly more expressive ND class, we provide analyses of the vowel harmony patterns of two Eastern Nilotic languages, Maasai and Turkana, using bimachines, an automaton type that represents unbounded bidirectional dependencies explicitly. These analyses make clear that there is interaction between deterministic composands when (and only when) the output of a given input element of a string is simultaneously dependent on information from both the left and the right: ND functions are those that involve interaction, while WD functions are those that do not.</p>","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese 无有限形态语言中的有限性：普通话实验研究
IF 1.3 1区 文学
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI: 10.1007/s11049-023-09591-4
Nick Huang
{"title":"Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Nick Huang","doi":"10.1007/s11049-023-09591-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09591-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18975,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language & Linguistic Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139124826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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