: It has been argued that an Elicited Imitation Task gives better insights into the L1 acquisition of the Dutch quantitative pronoun ER than a Picture Elicitation Task. In this paper the results of an Elicited Imitation Task submitted to adult L1 French and L1 English learners of L2 Dutch are presented and compared to earlier results of a Grammaticality Judgment Task. Like Dutch and unlike English, French uses a quantitative pronoun in noun ellipsis constructions with a numeral. Earlier results revealed that in the Grammaticality Judgment Task there was no significant difference between both groups of L2 learners in their acceptance of ER , although this was predicted on the basis of possible transfer from their L1. In the Elicited Imitation Task, however, the L1 English learners repeated ER significantly less often than the L1 French learners. This can be attributed to the different nature of the two types of test.
{"title":"The acquisition of the quantitative pronoun by English and French learners of L2 Dutch: An experimental study based on an elicited imitation task","authors":"P. Sleeman, Sanne Berends","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.1.5","url":null,"abstract":": It has been argued that an Elicited Imitation Task gives better insights into the L1 acquisition of the Dutch quantitative pronoun ER than a Picture Elicitation Task. In this paper the results of an Elicited Imitation Task submitted to adult L1 French and L1 English learners of L2 Dutch are presented and compared to earlier results of a Grammaticality Judgment Task. Like Dutch and unlike English, French uses a quantitative pronoun in noun ellipsis constructions with a numeral. Earlier results revealed that in the Grammaticality Judgment Task there was no significant difference between both groups of L2 learners in their acceptance of ER , although this was predicted on the basis of possible transfer from their L1. In the Elicited Imitation Task, however, the L1 English learners repeated ER significantly less often than the L1 French learners. This can be attributed to the different nature of the two types of test.","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69623166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ruxandra Visan. Landmarks in the History of the English Language.","authors":"Daria Protopopescu","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Veronica Tomescu. Acquisition in a Romanian-Hungarian Bilingual Context","authors":"A. Sevcenco","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
: Latin is known to have free Modifier > N / N > Modifier orders, with different frequencies according to the nature of the Modifier, which can be a determiner, a quantifier or an adjective. This variation raises a number of questions on the source of optionality, in both configurational and non-configurational approaches. In this paper, I take the configurational stance as the more restrictive and therefore the first to pursue. I evaluate two recent competing hypotheses: Cinque’s (1994, 2005, 2010) cartographic anti-symmetric hypothesis, according to which adjectives only occur as left-branching specifiers, and Abels and Neeleman’s (2010) minimalist counterproposal, according to which adjectives are adjoined to NP and stacked leftwards or rightwards. I propose a reconciliation of these two generative approaches along the lines of Giusti (2015), who distinguishes three types of feature sharing: Agreement, Concord, and Projection. The optionality of order is derived through (i) optional realization of N in the functional spine, (ii) optional realization of possessives in first-merge or remerge position, (iii) optional left/right adjunction of reduced relative clauses (or alternatively optional partial movement across a left-branching indirect modification); (iv) possible displacements of a single AP to the Left Periphery of the nominal expression. These four options interact with discourse but are constrained by the configurational right-branching structure generated by the syntactic component.
:拉丁语中有自由修饰语> N / N >修饰语顺序,根据修饰语的性质,修饰语的频率不同,可以是限定词、量词或形容词。这种变化在构型和非构型方法中提出了许多关于可选性来源的问题。在本文中,我将构型立场作为更严格的立场,因此首先要追求。我评估了最近两个相互竞争的假设:Cinque(1994, 2005, 2010)的地图反对称假设,根据该假设,形容词只作为左分支说明符出现;Abels和Neeleman(2010)的极简主义反建议,根据该假设,形容词与NP相连,并向左或向右堆叠。我建议按照Giusti(2015)的思路对这两种生成方法进行调和,他区分了三种类型的特征共享:协议、和谐和投影。顺序的可选性是通过(i)功能脊柱中N的可选实现,(ii)所有格在第一合并或重新合并位置的可选实现,(iii)简化关系从句的可选左/右附加(或在左分支间接修饰中可选的部分移动)推导出来的;(iv)单个AP可能移位到标称表达式的左周。这四个选项与话语交互,但受到句法组件生成的配置右分支结构的约束。
{"title":"Free not-so-free adjectival order in Latin","authors":"Giuliana Giusti","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.2.1","url":null,"abstract":": Latin is known to have free Modifier > N / N > Modifier orders, with different frequencies according to the nature of the Modifier, which can be a determiner, a quantifier or an adjective. This variation raises a number of questions on the source of optionality, in both configurational and non-configurational approaches. In this paper, I take the configurational stance as the more restrictive and therefore the first to pursue. I evaluate two recent competing hypotheses: Cinque’s (1994, 2005, 2010) cartographic anti-symmetric hypothesis, according to which adjectives only occur as left-branching specifiers, and Abels and Neeleman’s (2010) minimalist counterproposal, according to which adjectives are adjoined to NP and stacked leftwards or rightwards. I propose a reconciliation of these two generative approaches along the lines of Giusti (2015), who distinguishes three types of feature sharing: Agreement, Concord, and Projection. The optionality of order is derived through (i) optional realization of N in the functional spine, (ii) optional realization of possessives in first-merge or remerge position, (iii) optional left/right adjunction of reduced relative clauses (or alternatively optional partial movement across a left-branching indirect modification); (iv) possible displacements of a single AP to the Left Periphery of the nominal expression. These four options interact with discourse but are constrained by the configurational right-branching structure generated by the syntactic component.","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper focuses on complex DPs which contain a PP modifier. The matrix D shows agreement with the embedded D with respect to specificity in such DPs. However, this happens only in some instances but not always. The paper proposes that not all nominals encode specificity in the grammar and that the instances in which agreement obtains are those in which both the matrix and the embedded D encode specificity as a morpho-syntactic feature. The agreement relation within modified DPs in such cases is thus a consequence of syntactic Agree. With all the other instances the specificity of the DP is decided at a semantic/pragmatic level, and depends on contextual factors, as well as on the epistemic state of the speaker. The two DPs are independent from each other with respect to how their specificity is computed and no agreement relation is expected to hold between the two.
{"title":"Specificity, definiteness, and modification","authors":"D. Isac","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on complex DPs which contain a PP modifier. The matrix D shows agreement with the embedded D with respect to specificity in such DPs. However, this happens only in some instances but not always. The paper proposes that not all nominals encode specificity in the grammar and that the instances in which agreement obtains are those in which both the matrix and the embedded D encode specificity as a morpho-syntactic feature. The agreement relation within modified DPs in such cases is thus a consequence of syntactic Agree. With all the other instances the specificity of the DP is decided at a semantic/pragmatic level, and depends on contextual factors, as well as on the epistemic state of the speaker. The two DPs are independent from each other with respect to how their specificity is computed and no agreement relation is expected to hold between the two.","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exception Phrases as fragments: The case of Romanian","authors":"Emil Ionescu","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69623153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The internal structure of a differentially marked DP in Romanian","authors":"Virginia Hill, Alexandru Mardale","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69623138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The root derivation of psych nominals: Implications for competing overt and zero nominalizers","authors":"Gianina Iordǎchioaia","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ellipsis and information structure: Evidence from Romanian gapping","authors":"Gabriela Bîlbîie","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Allez, (mon) chou, on y va!\" Twenty years later: Revisiting the puzzle of French vocatives","authors":"M. Coene, Y. D’hulst, L. Tasmowski","doi":"10.31178/bwpl.21.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/bwpl.21.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30451,"journal":{"name":"Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}