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Does prosody meet syntax? A case study on standard Italian cleft sentences and left peripheral focus 韵律是否符合句法?标准意大利语断句与左周边焦点的个案研究

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-08-27 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2045

M. Pinelli, Cecilia Poletto, Cinzia Avesani

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-19 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-frontmatter3

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An interface analysis of marked copular constructions: The case of there-sentences 标记系词结构的界面分析——以there句为例

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-12 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2044

Francesca Ramaglia

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Copular constructions, existentials and related phenomena. An introduction 共形结构、存在论和相关现象。简介

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-10 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2046

Francesca Ramaglia, M. Frascarelli

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Existential and locative constructions in Mandarin Chinese 汉语中的存在句与处所句

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-10 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2043

Waltraud Paul, Yaqiao Lu, T. Lee

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Roots don’t select, categorial heads do: lexical-selection of PPs may vary by category 词根不会选择词根，但分类头会选择词根:词根的词汇选择可能因类别而异

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-09 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2020

J. Merchant

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Constraining long-distance allomorphy 限制长距离变形

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-09 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2031

Jurij Božič

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Compounds, composability, and morphological idiosyncrasy 化合物、可堆肥性和形态特性

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-06 DOI: 10.1515/TLR-2019-2026

Sam Steddy

{"title":"Compounds, composability, and morphological idiosyncrasy","authors":"Sam Steddy","doi":"10.1515/TLR-2019-2026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TLR-2019-2026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Working within the framework of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993, 1994), this paper offers a derivational analysis of the range of structures and the types of idiosyncrasy associated with compounding. Building on prior analysis by Harley (2009), compound structures are argued to vary according to the ways in which the head and the non-head of a compound are categorised. Specifically, if the non-head of a compound is acategorial, then the relationship between the compound head and non-head is non-decomposable. Based on data from Hebrew (Borer 2009), it is shown that this also makes the non-head inaccessible to independent syntactic-semantic operations, including coordination, and coreference with a pronoun. It is additionally shown that morphologically-conditioned allomorphy (Bobaljik 2012) may be conditioned between the compound head and a suffix, as constitutes part of a bracketing paradox (Williams 1981). Where categorisation of the head of the compound gives rise to effects of headedness, however, this allomorphy may be ‘blocked’ by the structure associated with exocentricity. The final sections of the paper consider exocentricity, and other interactions between idiosyncratic meanings and phonology, in further detail.","PeriodicalId":46358,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"453 - 483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/TLR-2019-2026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44554961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Roots, their structure and consequences for derivational timing 根，它们的结构和派生时序的结果

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-06 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2022

I. Kucerova, Adam Szczegielniak

{"title":"Roots, their structure and consequences for derivational timing","authors":"I. Kucerova, Adam Szczegielniak","doi":"10.1515/tlr-2019-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2019-2022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent work in Distributed Morphology, most prominently Harley (2014), argues for roots being able to take syntactic complements, which opens the door for the possibility of having syntactic features within a root’s representation – something most DM literature rejects (Embick 2015). Upon a closer inspection of the arguments presented in the literature, it is not clear whether the disagreement has an empirical underpinning, or whether it stems from the lack of methodological clarity as far as the identification of the precise nature of what constitutes a syntactic feature. This paper takes this methodological question seriously and investigates a type of derivational behavior that, in our view, provides a decisive argument for the presence of syntactic features on roots. We argue that the presence of a syntactic feature on the root can be conclusively established based on a feature’s impact on specific properties within a larger syntactic structure. Based on empirical evidence form gender agreement phenomena, we introduce a model of grammar that distinguishes roots with syntactic features from those which do not have them. We propose that such a distinction between roots will manifest itself in the timing of root insertion – roots without syntactic features are late inserted, while roots with syntactic features must be early inserted.","PeriodicalId":46358,"journal":{"name":"Linguistic Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"365 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tlr-2019-2022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43584547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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(Non-)Intersective adjectives and root suppletion （非）交叉形容词与词根补语

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Linguistic Review Pub Date : 2019-07-06 DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2019-2027

M. Despić

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