{"title":"The third construction and strength of C: A gradient harmonic grammar approach","authors":"G. Müller","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.107","url":null,"abstract":"is paper addresses the third construction in German, i.e., sentences that combine clause-internal movement from a control innitive with extraposition of that innitive. I argue that conicting evidence regarding the degree of bi-/mono-clausality of the extraposed innitive (as evidenced by Santorini & Kroch’s (1991) observation that long-distance scrambling is possible whereas wide scope of negation is not) is best captured by assuming that it qualies as a CP with a C head that has more strength than the C of a preverbal restructuring innitive embedded under a control verb, but less strength than the C of a non-restructuring innitive (or a nite clause). is presupposes an approach to syntax in which a number of dierent strength assignments to a given type of category (like C) can be postulated, and can have a direct eect on the (non-) application of syntactic operations. I will show that a version of minimalist syntax incorporating the Phase Impenetrability Condition (Chomsky 2001, 2013) that is embedded in a Gradient Harmonic Grammar approach (Smolensky & Goldrick 2016) can account for the variable strength of C in a principled way.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132931600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Role of Syncretism in Finiteness Marking for Verb Second in Diachrony and Acquisition","authors":"Anne Mette Nyvad","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.109","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the long-debated interaction between in fl ectional morphology and syntactic verb movement, more speci fi cally the role of morphological fi niteness marking in the presence vs. absence of V2-structures in English, Danish and French. It will be argued that the cross-linguistic variation found in these languages may be accounted for by viewing fi niteness as a feature that cuts across tense, mood and agreement, following Eide (2016). Whereas the productive morphological rule generating regular verb forms in English collapses the fi niteness distinction, this type of syncretism is not found in Danish and French, and this appears to have major consequences in diachrony, language variation and language acquisition.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115288294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructionist OT. The case of German verb inflection","authors":"Ralf Vogel","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.120","url":null,"abstract":"I explore the properties of a variant of OT morpho-syntax that is based on the standard OT mechanism of markedness/faithfulness interaction. For this variant to play out successfully, the idea of universally specifi ed input structures is given up. Instead, language particular input structures are used, as it is generally assumed that there can only be language particular lexicons, not universal ones. For the description of these input structures, a constructionist representation is proposed. The core idea of this approach is that a construction consists in a set of components, both on the form and the meaning side. These components, in fact, are constraints on the form of linguistic expressions that are instances of the respective constructions. Morphological faithfulness, then, is the fulfi lment of these component constraints. As it turns out in my exemplary analysis of infl ectional patterns in the present tense singular forms of German verbs, the assumption that faithfulness to components is violable leads to a simpler grammatical analysis that avoids the assumption of infl ectional subclasses with differing, but regular and predictable patterns. The basic mechanism is an OT-style interaction of phonological and morphological faithfulness. 1 I want to thank the editors of this Festschrift and especially the reviewer of this paper for very helpful remarks and suggestions which helped a lot to shape my argumentation and exposition. Most of all, my thanks go to Sten Vikner, for playing a very important role in a critical stage of my scientifi c career, and for the great pleasure it was and is to work with him.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128176590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formative feedback as grammar teaching","authors":"Susana S. Fernández, H. Kjærgaard","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.94","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to discuss how formative feedback (FB) on written language production can complement and at times replace grammar teaching in the context of a communicative foreign language (L2) classroom. This is illustrated with results from two research projects where formative FB contributes to developing the L2 learners’ grammatical awareness. In the communicative approach to language teaching, grammatical awareness is a necessary component for achieving communicative competence, but grammar is not a goal in itself. In this approach, the teaching of grammatical items is planned according to communicative needs and can either be chosen in advance, as preparation for a task (a pre-emptive approach), or take place as a reaction to production (a reactive approach). Formative corrective FB can be considered as a reactive approach to grammar teaching.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129140537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pronominale Referenz im Jiddischen und Deutschen im 21. Jahrhundert","authors":"Steffen Krogh, Kathrine Thisted Petersen","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.106","url":null,"abstract":"Osteuropäisches Jiddisch und Deutsch gehören von Hause aus zu denjenigen germanischen Sprachen, die bei pronominaler Referenz strenge Genuskongruenz wahren: Als Faustregel galt bisher, dass auf jedwedes Bezugswort stets mittels der Formen er / er , zi / sie und es / es verwiesen wurde, gleichgültig, ob das Bezugswort einen Menschen, ein Tier oder sonstiges Lebewesen, einen Gegenstand oder ein Abstraktum bezeichnete. 1 Die vorliegende Arbeit ist der Frage gewidmet, wie sich die beiden Sprachen in jüngerer bzw. jüngster Zeit von dieser gemeinsamen Grundlage entfernt haben. Als spezieller Vertreter des Jiddischen dient das vorrangig in den USA beheimatete charedische (ultraorthodoxe) Satmarer Jiddisch, das im 21. Jahrhundert die sprecherstärkste Varietät des Jiddischen ausmacht. Anhand ausgewählter Belege aus den letzten 100 Jahren für das Jiddische bzw. dem letzten Jahrzehnt für das Deutsche werden sowohl Gemeinsamkeiten als auch Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Art und des Umfangs dieser Neuerung in den zwei Sprachen herausgearbeitet.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117237452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The temporal interpretation of West Flemish non-inverted V3","authors":"L. Haegeman","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.95","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter compares the temporal interpretation of the initial adjuncts in a regular V2 pattern, in which the finite verb has inverted with the subject, and in the West Flemish V3 patterns in which an adjunct precedes a non-inverted V2 pattern. In the periphrastic tenses, a difference in interpretation emerges. In the regular V2 pattern, an initial time adjunct modifies either Reference Time or Event Time of the associated clause. In the non-inverted V3 pattern, the initial temporal clause can only modify matrix Reference Time. This restriction is shown to follow from the analysis elaborated in Haegeman and Greco (2018a,b) combined with a split Tense proposal in which Reference time and Event time are located on distinct functional heads.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128626697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hvordan en gammel kontrakt kan kaste nyt lys over hollændernes skriftsprog på Amager i 1600-tallet","authors":"Joost Roger Robbe","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127992306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The semantics of syntactic constructions","authors":"O. Togeby","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.118","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper it is shown that Danish syntactic constructions, such as accusative + infi nitive, e.g. Hun så ham komme (She saw him come), accusative + to-infi nitive, that-clauses and preposition + that-clauses, have their own type of meaning potential, exactly like lexical items, such as perception predicates: see, hear, control predicates: permit, offer, and mental NEG-raising predicates: think, hope. The types of meaning that syntactic constructions can have as predications are: state of affairs, proposition, illocution and fact. Both lexical items and syntactic constructions are polysemous and disambiguate each other when combined in a clause according to a general rule that may be stated similarly to the way that the rule for a lexical entry may. Some examples such as Hun bad ham komme (She asked him to come) and Hun lod ham begrave (She let him be buried) are identifi ed and given an explanation.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128126701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-aspiration and the problem of zeroes: Phonological rules can be variable","authors":"Mísa Hejná","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.97","url":null,"abstract":"Pre-aspiration can be defi ned as a period of glottal friction, [h], which is found in the sequences of sonorants and phonetically voiceless obstruents, as in map [mahph] (e.g. in Welsh English, Hejná 2015). This chapter problematises the default approach to pre-aspiration shown in a number of studies, which assume that unless pre-aspiration applies obligatorily it is subject only to phonetic constraints rather than, at least potentially, both phonetic and phonological constraints. As a result, instances where pre-aspiration reaches the duration of 0 ms, i.e. where it does not apply (mat [mats]), are typically included in the analyses of its phonetic conditioning. This can be problematic in cases where zero values refl ect a variable phonological rule rather than the output of solely phonetic constraints as such an approach may obscure our understanding of the constraints on pre-aspiration. [I]t may be time to consider the zero. (Tanning 2011)","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129943272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language in the genes: Where’s the evidence?","authors":"O. Bohn","doi":"10.7146/aul.348.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/aul.348.90","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence regarding the genetic bases of human language abilities comes from many sources, but none is as rich and reliable as the one that comes from infant speech perception studies. This contribution provides an overview of how research on infant speech perception informs the debate on the genetic basis of human language abilities. Speci fi cally, this contribution reviews fi ndings which document infants’ abilities to learn from pre- and postnatal experience, and fi ndings which strongly suggest that humans possess language-speci fi c abilities as part of their genetic makeup.","PeriodicalId":347827,"journal":{"name":"The Sign of the V: Papers in Honour of Sten Vikner","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134235731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}