{"title":"One way in which Slavic languages really are SVO languages","authors":"M. Dryer","doi":"10.1515/tl-2022-2030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2022-2030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"48 1","pages":"49 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44991415","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}
Abstract Slavic languages are commonly classified as SVO languages, with an exceptional property, though, namely an atypically extensive variability of word order. A systematic comparison of Slavic languages with uncontroversial SVO languages reveals, however, that exceptional properties are the rule. Slavic languages are ‘exceptional’ in so many syntactic respects that SVO appears to be a typological misnomer. This fact invites a fresh look. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that these languages are not exceptional, but regular members of a different type. They are representative of a yet unrecognised type of clause structure organisation. The dichotomy of ‘head-final’ and ‘head-initial’ does not exhaustively cover the system space of the make-up of phrases. In addition, there arguably exists a third option (T3). This is the type of phrasal architecture in which the head of the verb phrase is directionally unconstrained. It may precede, as in VO, it may follow, as in OV, and it may be sandwiched by its arguments within the phrase. From this viewpoint, the Slavic languages cease to be exceptional. They are regular representatives of the latter type, and, crucially, their collateral syntactic properties predictably match the properties of this type.
{"title":"Slavic languages – “SVO” languages without SVO qualities?","authors":"H. Haider, Luka Szucsich","doi":"10.1515/tl-2022-2035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2022-2035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Slavic languages are commonly classified as SVO languages, with an exceptional property, though, namely an atypically extensive variability of word order. A systematic comparison of Slavic languages with uncontroversial SVO languages reveals, however, that exceptional properties are the rule. Slavic languages are ‘exceptional’ in so many syntactic respects that SVO appears to be a typological misnomer. This fact invites a fresh look. Upon closer scrutiny, it turns out that these languages are not exceptional, but regular members of a different type. They are representative of a yet unrecognised type of clause structure organisation. The dichotomy of ‘head-final’ and ‘head-initial’ does not exhaustively cover the system space of the make-up of phrases. In addition, there arguably exists a third option (T3). This is the type of phrasal architecture in which the head of the verb phrase is directionally unconstrained. It may precede, as in VO, it may follow, as in OV, and it may be sandwiched by its arguments within the phrase. From this viewpoint, the Slavic languages cease to be exceptional. They are regular representatives of the latter type, and, crucially, their collateral syntactic properties predictably match the properties of this type.","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"48 1","pages":"1 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48555952","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}
Wolfgang Klein’s alternative analysis of counterfactuals is indeed much closer to the linguistic facts of English and related languages than what has been proposed within the philosophical tradition so far. This response to his article contends that Klein’s fresh look at counterfactuality paves the way for a pragmatic, usage-based approach to counterfactuals, which calls for a more varied analysis of the illocutionary force of counterfactual declarative sentences. As a second point, while Klein proposes that “counterfactuals do not require an ifclause” (p. 223), I will discuss authentic language data featuring independent counterfactual if-clauses, among others from English, and build the case that the reverse also holds, viz. that counterfactual conditionals do not require a main clause. The problem these data seem to pose to Klein’s account, however, is only an apparent one. Above all, they will be shown to highlight in turn the illocutionary versatility of declarative counterfactuals.
{"title":"A usage-based approach to counterfactuality: optionality of the apodosis","authors":"A. Van linden","doi":"10.1515/tl-2021-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2021-2025","url":null,"abstract":"Wolfgang Klein’s alternative analysis of counterfactuals is indeed much closer to the linguistic facts of English and related languages than what has been proposed within the philosophical tradition so far. This response to his article contends that Klein’s fresh look at counterfactuality paves the way for a pragmatic, usage-based approach to counterfactuals, which calls for a more varied analysis of the illocutionary force of counterfactual declarative sentences. As a second point, while Klein proposes that “counterfactuals do not require an ifclause” (p. 223), I will discuss authentic language data featuring independent counterfactual if-clauses, among others from English, and build the case that the reverse also holds, viz. that counterfactual conditionals do not require a main clause. The problem these data seem to pose to Klein’s account, however, is only an apparent one. Above all, they will be shown to highlight in turn the illocutionary versatility of declarative counterfactuals.","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"47 1","pages":"277 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44678164","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}
{"title":"Variations on Anderson Conditionals","authors":"J. Zakkou","doi":"10.1515/tl-2021-2027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2021-2027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"47 1","pages":"297 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67376994","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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