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The Emptiness Of The Present: Fronting Constructions As A Window To The Semantics Of Tense, Petr Kusliy
The Emptiness Of The Present: Fronting Constructions As A Window To The Semantics Of Tense, Petr Kusliy
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is devoted to the temporal interpretation of fronting constructions in English and the phenomenon of the Sequence of Tense. It provides and analyzes previously unobserved data from verb phrase fronting constructions in which the simultaneous interpretation of a present tense embedded under a matrix past tense is available. These data are theoretically unexpected and challenging because most theories of English tense disallow this interpretation for Present-under-Past configurations. An account that captures the new data is proposed. It establishes a connection between the simultaneous interpretation of Present-under-Past and the mode of semantic composition between a verb and its complement. …
Talking About Her(Self): Ambiguity Avoidance And Principle B. A Theoretical And Psycholinguistic Investigation Of Romanian Pronouns, Rudmila-Rodica Ivan
Talking About Her(Self): Ambiguity Avoidance And Principle B. A Theoretical And Psycholinguistic Investigation Of Romanian Pronouns, Rudmila-Rodica Ivan
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation answers a deceivingly simple question: why can her in Hermione talked about her refer to the sentence subject in Romanian, but not in English? The Romanian facts, which are surprising for both classic and competition-based accounts of the Binding Theory over the last 40 odd years, bring us to the following overarching question: what are the constraints on pronominal reference? To address these main questions, I carry out a psycholinguistic investigation of Romanian pronouns and argue that the distribution and interpretation of pronominal forms is jointly determined by pragmatic and morphosyntactic constraints. I discuss evidence from four experiments, …
Emergent Typological Effects Of Agent-Based Learning Models In Maximum Entropy Grammar, Coral Hughto
Emergent Typological Effects Of Agent-Based Learning Models In Maximum Entropy Grammar, Coral Hughto
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation shows how a theory of grammatical representations and a theory of learning can be combined to generate gradient typological predictions in phonology, predicting not only which patterns are expected to exist, but also their relative frequencies: patterns which are learned more easily are predicted to be more typologically frequent than those which are more difficult. In Chapter 1 I motivate and describe the specific implementation of this methodology in this dissertation. Maximum Entropy grammar (Goldwater & Johnson 2003) is combined with two agent-based learning models, the iterated and the interactive learning model, each of which mimics a type …
Person-Based Prominence In Ojibwe, Christopher Hammerly
Person-Based Prominence In Ojibwe, Christopher Hammerly
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation develops a formal and psycholinguistic theory of person-based prominence effects, the finding that certain categories of person such as "first" and "second" (the "local" persons) are privileged by the grammar. The thesis takes on three questions: (i) What are the possible categories related to person? (ii) What are the possible prominence relationships between these categories? And (iii) how is prominence information used to parse and interpret linguistic input in real time? The empirical through-line is understanding obviation — a “spotlighting” system, found most prominently in the Algonquian family of languages, that splits the (ani- mate) third persons into …
Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers And Focus-Sensitivity, Alexander Goebel
Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers And Focus-Sensitivity, Alexander Goebel
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the role of Focus-sensitivity for a typology of presupposition triggers. The central hypothesis is that Focus-sensitive triggers require a linguistic antecedent in the discourse model, whereas presuppositions of triggers lacking Focus-sensitivity are satisfied as entailments of the Common Ground. This hypothesis is supported by experimental evidence from two borne out predictions. First, Focus-sensitive triggers are sensitive to the salience of the antecedent satisfying their presupposition, as operationalized via the Question Under Discussion, and lead to interference-type effects, while triggers lacking Focus-sensitivity are indifferent to the QUD-structure. Second, Focus-sensitive triggers are harder to globally accommodate than triggers lacking …
Dutch Expletives And Small Clause Predicate Raising, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Dutch Expletives And Small Clause Predicate Raising, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Reduplication With Fixed Melodic Material, Moira Yip
Reduplication With Fixed Melodic Material, Moira Yip
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Two Types Of Universal Terms In Questions, Veneeta Srivastav
Two Types Of Universal Terms In Questions, Veneeta Srivastav
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Maximization Explains Minimal Word Variability, Cari Spring
Maximization Explains Minimal Word Variability, Cari Spring
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Ser And Estar: A Matter Of Aspect, Cristina Schmitt
Ser And Estar: A Matter Of Aspect, Cristina Schmitt
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Linguistics And Psycholinguistic Of Unaccusativity In Spanish, Montserrat Sanz, Thomas G. Bever, Itziar Laka
Linguistics And Psycholinguistic Of Unaccusativity In Spanish, Montserrat Sanz, Thomas G. Bever, Itziar Laka
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Vp-Internal Arguments And Locative Subjects, Graziella Saccon
Vp-Internal Arguments And Locative Subjects, Graziella Saccon
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Argument/Adjunct (A)Symmetries, Luigi Rizzi
Argument/Adjunct (A)Symmetries, Luigi Rizzi
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Relativized Subject For Reflexives, Ljiljana Progovac, Steven Franks
Relativized Subject For Reflexives, Ljiljana Progovac, Steven Franks
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
French Sentential Negation And Lf Pied-Piping, Luc Moritz, Daniel Valois
French Sentential Negation And Lf Pied-Piping, Luc Moritz, Daniel Valois
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Tough Parasitic Gaps, René Mulder, Marcel Den Dikken
Tough Parasitic Gaps, René Mulder, Marcel Den Dikken
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Syntactic Context And The Interpretation Of Vp Anaphors, Gail A. Mauner
Syntactic Context And The Interpretation Of Vp Anaphors, Gail A. Mauner
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Negative Complementizers: Interclausal Licensing Of Negative Polarity Items, Itziar Laka
Negative Complementizers: Interclausal Licensing Of Negative Polarity Items, Itziar Laka
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Scrambling And Mixed Positions In Turkish, Murat Kural
Scrambling And Mixed Positions In Turkish, Murat Kural
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Word-Internal Prosodic Words In Korean, Ongmi Kang
Word-Internal Prosodic Words In Korean, Ongmi Kang
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Control And Reconstruction Effects Of Adjuncts In Hindi, Doug Jones
Control And Reconstruction Effects Of Adjuncts In Hindi, Doug Jones
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
If "Then", Then What?, Sabine Iatridou
If "Then", Then What?, Sabine Iatridou
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Negation In West Flemish And The Neg Criterion, Liliane Haegeman
Negation In West Flemish And The Neg Criterion, Liliane Haegeman
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Core Syllabification And The Grid: Explaining Quantity Sensitivity, Tom Green
Core Syllabification And The Grid: Explaining Quantity Sensitivity, Tom Green
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Another Look At Object Agreement, Carol Georgopoulos
Another Look At Object Agreement, Carol Georgopoulos
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Is There More To V2 Than Meets The I?, Ray Freeze
Is There More To V2 Than Meets The I?, Ray Freeze
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Exceptive Conditionals: The Meaning Of Unless, Kai Von Fintel
Exceptive Conditionals: The Meaning Of Unless, Kai Von Fintel
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
The Syntax Of Predicate Clefts, Laurent P. Dekydtspotter
The Syntax Of Predicate Clefts, Laurent P. Dekydtspotter
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
The Syntax Of Predication In Haitian, Michel F. Degraff
The Syntax Of Predication In Haitian, Michel F. Degraff
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.
Parsing, Linear Asymmetry, And Wh-Movement, Henry Davis, Carl Alphonce
Parsing, Linear Asymmetry, And Wh-Movement, Henry Davis, Carl Alphonce
North East Linguistics Society
No abstract provided.