Syntaxis -- V. 01, (1998)

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The syntax of literacy
(2010-04-28T08:55:04Z) Givón, Talmy
Syntactic theory and syntactic processing
(2010-04-28T08:41:56Z) Frazier, Lyn
As linguistic theory becomes more refined, linguists increasingly rely on subtle judgments about slight acceptability differences among complex sentences as the sole evidence motivating interesting grammatical hypotheses. It thus becomes increasingly important to make informed decisions about the role of processing factors in determining acceptability judgments in order to correctly identify the source of acceptability differences and to make appropriate assumptions about the division of labor between a theory of competence and theories of performance. Three areas are discussed where the results of sentence processing studies may constrain the appropriate grammatical treatment of linguistic phenomena: d-linking, focus and morphosyntactic feature manipulation.
Sintaxis formal y sintaxis conceptual : más allá de la tipología de las oraciones de relativo
(2010-04-28T08:35:06Z) Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos
In this paper I present a conceptual analysis of adjectival subordination. It is argued that adjectival subordination conveys the conceptual operation of eventive characterization of individuals. This operation consists in using an event to characterize an individual; it is claimed that many syntactic properties of adjectival subordination in the world's languages follow from this conceptual operation, and that a full explanation of the typology of this type of subordination can only be produced in a semantic framework. It is also shown how adjectival subordination interacts with other syntactic processes such as incorporation, verbal adjectivization and substantivation, elision, anaphora and how these interactions can be accounted for in the conceptual framework sketched in this paper. The examples illustrating the main points are drawn from Georgian, Chukchi, Hungarian, Basque and Spanish, since the investigation is typologically oriented.
Principles of phrasal architecture : category assignment in coordinate structures
(2010-04-28T08:28:23Z) O'Grady, William
This paper considers the possibility that the architectural properties of phrase structure can be derived from general principles rather than merely stated as stipulations. After proposing and illustrating a set of independently motivated principles, I focus my discussion on a series of puzzles associated with the syntax of coordination. The approach adopted here is shown to make two surprising predictions about coordinate structure, the apparent validity of which provides support for the proposed principles and for the general approach to phrase structure that they represent.
Minimalism, move and the Internal Subject Hypothesis (ISH)
(2010-04-28T08:22:26Z) González-Escribano, José Luis
If CHL is optimal, why should it use costly Move-based feature-checking when a local Merge-based option is available? Why should a 'lazy' CHL bother to activate feature-clusters like Tns, available on verbs, check that FCs and verbs match, and finally remove FCs to satisfy FIP? Why should it furthermore copy-move DPs into the specifiers of FCs, satisfy itself that features match, and then remove all the copies but one? In MG such analyses result from a view of simplicity that induces biuniqueness between properties and positions, forces categories to be represented by `chains', and therefore requires a polistratal grammar. In this primarily conceptual paper, I argue. following CG-HPSG work, that the ISH is conceptually misguided, that FCs are uneconomic computational artifacts, that Move/Attract is as redundant as its triggers, or the deletions it causes, and that dropping them yields a neater theory of CHL.
The irrelevance of typology for grammatical theory
(2010-04-28T08:16:55Z) Newmeyer, Frederick J.
Many linguists believe that a parameter-setting model of grammar should capture typological generalizations. For example, a particular feature's cross-linguistic rarity might be 'registered' in a grammar that possesses that feature by means of a marked setting for the relevant parameter. I argue that such a view is in error. Grammars do not encode typological generalizations, either directly or indirectly. Put in a somewhat different way, Universal grammar tells us what a possible language is, but not what a probable language is. The most robust typological generalizations —those arising from the seminal work of Joseph Greenberg— have an explanation based in language processing.
Embedded interrogatives and coordination in French
(2010-04-28T08:12:52Z) Defrancq, Bart
The aim of this paper is threefold: it is an attempt to collect highly dispersed comments on coordination of and in embedded interrogatives and to confront them with corpus material; it is an attempt to provide a more accurate analysis of elements introducing embedded interrogatives through structures in which they appear coordinated; it is an attempt to interpret the syntactic phenomena in terms of semantic properties. The paper concentrates on three particular types of coordination: the coordination of clauses introduced by interrogative elements and the conjunction que. the coordination of functionally different interrogative elements and the coordination of clauses with an opposite truth value.
Claves sintácticas de la estilística lingüística
(2010-04-28T08:03:43Z) Alcaraz Varó, Enrique
Most of the research carried out in stylistics has devoted a great deal of its attention to the analysis of lexical devices and to the effects created by these lexical resources in the communicative utterance. This article argues that discourse intentionality is a useful concept that offers a productive framework for the examination of the stylistic meaning (suggestions, hints, images, evocations, etc.) brought about by syntactic resources. The following are the syntactic categories that have been used in this stylistic analysis: isotaxis, ellipsis, linguistic presupposition, passivisation, nominalisation and thematisation, disjuncts and connectors, syntactic order and verbal tenses, and deviation from syntactic order.

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