Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a921999
Frank Van Eynde
Abstract: The phenomenon of phrasal nominalization, as exemplified by the English gerund, raises a challenge for the assumption that a phrase XP is headed by a word of category X. Many proposals have been made to deal with phrasal nominalization, in both multistratal and monostratal frameworks. Some seek to fit it in the endocentric mold; others are plainly exocentric. Comparative evaluations tend to be made along partisan lines (multistratal vs. monostratal) or on the basis of methodological principles (discarding vs. allowing exocentricity). This article aims for a less aprioristic approach, taking generalizability as a criterion for evaluation. More specifically, it investigates three types of phrasal nominalization as they manifest themselves in Dutch, that is, the nominalization of infinitives, adjectives, and participles, providing first a theory-neutral description of the data and then an analysis I call 'factorial' in the sense that it captures both what the three types have in common and what differentiates them. It is cast in the framework of constructional head-driven phrase structure grammar, since the latter's hierarchy of phrase types provides a natural starting point for a factorial analysis. The resulting treatment is exocentric. In a final step I compare it to a number of endocentric alternatives, showing that it scores higher on the scale of generalizability.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a922002
Leonard Bloomfield
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a922005
B. Meek
{"title":"On classification, language, and American Indian scholarship: Commentary on Boas 1929","authors":"B. Meek","doi":"10.1353/lan.2024.a922005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a922005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503033,"journal":{"name":"Language","volume":"9 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140279424","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}
Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a922788
Ad Neeleman, Misako Tanaka
Abstract: Ross (1967) observed that the coordinate structure constraint can be violated in certain semantically asymmetric structures. In this article we consider one of these structures, namely type A coordination, in detail (the terminology is from Lakoff 1986; an example is Here's the whisky I went to the store and bought ). We present experimental evidence showing that the pattern of argument and adjunct extraction from type A coordinate structures matches the pattern of argument and adjunct extraction from structures containing rationale clauses in all crucial respects. This near-perfect parallel behavior suggests that, like rationale clauses, the second conjunct in a type A coordination is an adjunct (see also Brown 2017). We explore the consequences of this finding for both interpretive and syntactic analyses of asymmetric coordination.
摘要：Ross（1967）发现，在某些语义不对称的结构中，坐标结构约束可能会被违反。在本文中，我们详细探讨了其中的一种结构，即 A 型坐标结构（术语来自 Lakoff 1986；例子是 Here's the whisky I went to the store and bought）。我们提出的实验证据表明，从 A 型协调结构中提取论据和从句的模式在所有关键方面都与从包含理由分句的结构中提取论据和从句的模式相吻合。这种近乎完美的平行行为表明，与理由从句一样，A 型配位中的第二个连接词也是附属词（另见 Brown 2017）。我们将探讨这一发现对非对称协调的解释学和句法分析的影响。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a922787
Jiayin Gao, James Kirby
Abstract: Inspired by Beddor 2009, this article explores whether and how trading relations between coarticulatory source and effect may serve as a precursor for sound change. It aims at extending the case of vowel nasalization examined by Beddor to the relationship between closure voicing (source) and co-intrinsic pitch (effect). Through four production and perception studies, we show that the inverse source-effect relation observed for vowel nasalization is not found in the voicing contrast of French, a true-voicing language. Instead, we propose that the phonologization of co-intrinsic pitch (a.k.a. tonogenesis) originates from spontaneous devoicing (a production bias), which subsequently triggers an upweighting of pitch (a perceptual adaptation strategy).*
{"title":"Laryngeal contrast and sound change: The production and perception of plosive voicing and co-intrinsic pitch: Supplementary material","authors":"Jiayin Gao, James Kirby","doi":"10.1353/lan.2024.a922787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a922787","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Inspired by Beddor 2009, this article explores whether and how trading relations between coarticulatory source and effect may serve as a precursor for sound change. It aims at extending the case of vowel nasalization examined by Beddor to the relationship between closure voicing (source) and co-intrinsic pitch (effect). Through four production and perception studies, we show that the inverse source-effect relation observed for vowel nasalization is not found in the voicing contrast of French, a true-voicing language. Instead, we propose that the phonologization of co-intrinsic pitch (a.k.a. tonogenesis) originates from spontaneous devoicing (a production bias), which subsequently triggers an upweighting of pitch (a perceptual adaptation strategy).*","PeriodicalId":503033,"journal":{"name":"Language","volume":"162 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140278870","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}
Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a922003
Brian D. Joseph, Sarah Grey Thomason
{"title":"Celebrating the LSA centennial in Language : Commentary on Bloomfield 1925","authors":"Brian D. Joseph, Sarah Grey Thomason","doi":"10.1353/lan.2024.a922003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a922003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":503033,"journal":{"name":"Language","volume":"396 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140275094","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}
Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/lan.2024.a922789
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Asifa Majid
Abstract: Previous studies have proposed that the lexicalization of perception verbs is constrained by a biologically grounded hierarchy of the senses. Other research traditions emphasize conceptual and communicative factors instead. Drawing on a balanced sample of perception verb lexicons in 100 languages, we found that vision tends to be lexicalized with a dedicated verb, but that nonvisual modalities do not conform to the predictions of the sense-modality hierarchy. We also found strong asymmetries in which sensory meanings colexify. Rather than a universal hierarchy of the senses, we suggest that two domain-general constraints—conceptual similarity and communicative need—interact to shape lexicalization patterns.
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