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Frozen by context: Pragmatic factors of syntactic freezing 语境冻结:句法冻结的语用因素

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-07 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5870

Gouming Martens

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Resolving ambiguous polarity stripping ellipsis structures in Persian 解决波斯语歧义极性剥离省略结构

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-07 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5881

Vahideh Rasekhi, Jesse A. Harris

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Revisiting the configurationality issue in Old Icelandic 重新审视古冰岛语的配置问题

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-05 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5804

Hannah Booth

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The prosody of focus projection: word stress and F0 patterns in Georgian 焦点投射的韵律:格鲁吉亚语单词重音和F0模式

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5733

Lena Borise

{"title":"The prosody of focus projection: word stress and F0 patterns in Georgian","authors":"Lena Borise","doi":"10.16995/glossa.5733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5733","url":null,"abstract":"Based on experimental evidence, this paper shows that focus projection/percolation – the phenomenon by way of which prosodic prominence on a sub-constituent signals focus on the whole constituent – has a consistent prosodic realization in Georgian. The novelty of these findings lies in two properties of Georgian that have not been explored from the perspective of focus projection: it is a language with a dedicated focus position (linearly immediately preverbal) and one that does not rely on pitch accents in the expression of phrasal prosody (Skopeteas & Féry 2010; 2016). According to focus projection accounts (Selkirk 1984; Cinque 1993; Ladd 1996; Zubizarreta 1998, a. o.), utterances with narrow focus on the direct object are realized in the same way as broad focus utterances, since in all three cases prosodic prominence is realized on the direct object. In contrast, in utterances with narrow focus on the subject, the subject is the most prosodically prominent element, which means that the whole utterance has a different prosodic realization from that of broad focus contexts. This paper shows that the distribution of prosodic prominence in object- and subject-focus contexts in Georgian fits with this generalization. Specifically, the realization of utterances with narrowly focused objects does not differ from broad focus contexts in their F0 patterns and prominence of the stressed syllable, while narrowly focused subjects differ from subjects in broad focus utterances in both of these parameters.","PeriodicalId":46319,"journal":{"name":"Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84281101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Case-sensitive plural suppletion in Barguzin Buryat: On case containment, suppletion typology, and competition in morphology 巴尔古津布里亚特的区分大小写的复数补语:关于大小写遏制、补语类型和形态学上的竞争

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5885

Colin Davis, Colin Davis

引用次数: 3

Mood variation with belief predicates: Modal comparison in semantics and the common ground 信念谓词的情绪变化:语义学上的情态比较及其共同点

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-25 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5726

A. Mari, P. Portner

{"title":"Mood variation with belief predicates: Modal comparison in semantics and the common ground","authors":"A. Mari, P. Portner","doi":"10.16995/glossa.5726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5726","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes that subjunctive in the complement of belief sen- tences in Italian expresses a relation between the attitude holder’s beliefs and the common ground. In contrast to most other Romance languages, ‘believe’ commonly and prescriptively takes subjunctive in Italian, though indicative is found as well, and as has been observed in the literature, the choice of indicative or subjunctive has semantic effects. We show that the indicative with ‘believe’ is used when the belief statement describes the personal mental state of the holder of the attitude, an interpretation that follows from the traditional Hintikkean semantics. In contrast, we show that subjunctive with ‘believe’ is used to mark a relation between the content of belief and the discourse context. To analyze these facts, we propose that the modal quantification present in attitude reports comes not from the attitude verb, but instead from the embedded verbal mood. What differentiates Italian from related languages where ‘believe’ only takes indicative, is that Italian allows the subjunctive to access the com- mon ground as a modal base, utilizing the verb’s doxastic background as an ordering source. The fact that subjunctive relates the common ground to the subject’s beliefs explains the discourse oriented meaning of this combination. We extend our analysis to several other predicates that show mood variation in Italian.","PeriodicalId":46319,"journal":{"name":"Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics","volume":"227 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80178505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 9

Differential object marking in Modern Hebrew: from definiteness to partitivity 现代希伯来语中不同的客体标记:从确定性到可分性

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-24 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5729

Aviya Hacohen, O. Kagan, Dana Plaut

{"title":"Differential object marking in Modern Hebrew: from definiteness to partitivity","authors":"Aviya Hacohen, O. Kagan, Dana Plaut","doi":"10.16995/glossa.5729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5729","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the change in differential object marking (DOM) currently exhibited in Modern Hebrew. To date, the consensus in the theoretical literature on Hebrew has been that the object marker 'et' is only licensed in the context of definite DPs. We observe, however, that in Modern Hebrew partitive indefinite DPs may also be preceded by 'et'. Here, we experimentally investigate this change in the distribution of 'et'. Using a judgment task, we asked 41 native Hebrew-speaking adults to rate sentences with 'et'-marked indefinite object DPs on a 5-point acceptability scale. \u0000Our results reveal that partitive items received a considerably high acceptance score, with an overall average of 3.6/5. In addition, we found a main effect for object-position and quantifier-type. In particular, acceptability of 'et'-marked partitives increased significantly for topicalized DPs and for DPs that contained proportional quantifiers (as opposed to cardinals). \u0000These data support the analysis of 'et' as a DOM marker. We propose that Modern Hebrew is currently undergoing a process of change, whereby the distribution of its object marker is shifting in the direction of the Turkish DOM pattern, along the Definiteness Scale proposed by Aissen (2003). Further, the Hebrew facts provide novel evidence for the relevance of this scale not only in a synchronic, but also in a diachronic investigation of DOM. Moreover, they point to a special status of partitivity among specific DPs, suggesting that it should be distinguished as a separate category on the Definiteness Scale.","PeriodicalId":46319,"journal":{"name":"Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79575860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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On quantified DPs in Baule 关于《Baule》中的量化DPs

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-23 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5707

Yan Konan, G. Puskás

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Asymmetry and Contrast: Coordination in Sign Language of the Netherlands 不对称与对比:荷兰手语中的协调

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-20 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5872

Katharina Hartmann, R. Pfau, Iris Legeland

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Locality in the acquisition of object A’-dependencies: insights from French 对象A '依赖性习得中的局部性:来自法语的见解

IF 1 2区文学

Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-20 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5876

Stéphanie Durrleman, Anamaria Bentea

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