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When the present lies in the past: [Present under Past] in subjunctive clauses in Uruguayan Spanish 当现在时位于过去时:乌拉圭西班牙语虚拟式从句中的[过去下的现在]

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-30 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.7904

Saveria Colonna, B. Laca, Leticia López, Eduardo Correa Soares

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Nuclear Accent placement in broad focus intransitives in native and non-native English: an investigation of syntactic and pragmatic factors 母语和非母语英语中大焦点不及物的核重音位置:句法和语用因素的研究

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5810

S. A. Landblom, T. Ionin

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Variability in speaker expectations of morphosyntactic mutation in Welsh 威尔士语中形态句法突变的说话人期望变异

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.8730

Yosiane White, Gareth Roberts

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Language is for thought and communication 语言是用来思考和交流的

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5786

Martina Wiltschko

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Expletiveness in grammar and beyond 语法及其他方面的滥用

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-11 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5807

Evripidis Tsiakmakis, M. Espinal

{"title":"Expletiveness in grammar and beyond","authors":"Evripidis Tsiakmakis, M. Espinal","doi":"10.16995/glossa.5807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5807","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sets out to find the defining characteristics of so-called expletive categories and the consequences the existence of such categories has for Universal Grammar. Looking into different instantiations of expletive subjects and impersonal pronouns, definite articles, negative markers and plural markers in various natural languages, we reach the following generalizations: (i) expletive categories are deficient functional elements interpreted as introducing an identity function at the level of semantic representation, (ii) they can be divided into syntactic expletives, that occur to satisfy some syntactic relationship with another item in the clause, and semantic expletives, that stand in a semantic dependency with some c-commanding category, and (iii) expletive categories tend to develop additional meaning components that are computed beyond core grammar, at the level where speech act-related information is encoded. Our discussion reveals that all categories that have been traditionally considered as expletive in the linguistic literature are interpretable in grammar or beyond and, thus, do not violate Chomsky’s Full Interpretation Principle. We conclude that there are no expletive elements in natural languages and that expletiveness is not a grammatically relevant concept.","PeriodicalId":46319,"journal":{"name":"Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88014866","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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Object mass nouns and subkind countability 宾语质量名词和子类可数性

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-10 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5788

Kurt Erbach, Aviv Schoenfeld

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How can a language have double-passives but lack antipassives? 一种语言怎么会有双被动语态却没有反被动语态呢?

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-08 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.6553

Furkan Dikmen, Ömer Demirok, Balkız Öztürk

{"title":"How can a language have double-passives but lack antipassives?","authors":"Furkan Dikmen, Ömer Demirok, Balkız Öztürk","doi":"10.16995/glossa.6553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6553","url":null,"abstract":"Passivization in Turkish may target both internal and external argument positions, for passives of unaccusatives, unergatives and transitives are possible in the language. Interestingly, Turkish also has double passives where the passive morpheme is iterated and both argument positions are saturated. However, the language does not allow for antipassives, where only the internal argument position of a transitive predicate is saturated by passivization. Importantly, under plausible compositional analyses, antipassives are fully predicted, contrary to the fact. Hence, the unavailability of antipassives in a language that has double passives (and passives of unaccusatives) remains as a puzzle, which this paper sets out to solve. In particular, we argue that antipassives are ruled out on the grounds that the passive morpheme is visible to the case calculus in terms of Dependent Case Theory but has to remain caseless throughout the derivation. We show that this account also correctly predicts that internal argument positions that happen to be lexical case positions can never be targeted by passivization. Finally, we provide a fine-grained analysis of internal argument suppression accounting for the aspectual restrictions it has been reported to have, and compare our work to the existing proposals.","PeriodicalId":46319,"journal":{"name":"Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72850696","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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Talmy’s typology in serializing languages: Variations on a VP Talmy在序列化语言中的类型学:VP的变体

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-08 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.7686

Jens Hopperdietzel

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Explaining variance in writers’ use of demonstratives: A corpus study demonstrating the importance of discourse genre 作者指示语使用差异的解释:语料库研究表明语篇体裁的重要性

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.5826

A. Maes, E. Krahmer, David Peeters

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Projective and other locative PPs in Greek 投影和其他位置的希腊语PPs

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Glossa-A Journal of General Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.16995/glossa.6153

Athanasios Michael Ramadanidis

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