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Structural Asymmetries – The View from Kutchi Gujarati and Marwari Patrick Grosz & Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Tübingen) Background: Indo-Aryan languages exhibit a split in their case and/or agreement pattern that correlates with aspect. This is illustrated for Standard Gujarati in (1) (from Mistry 1976, DeLancey 1981:628-629). In the perfective, (1a), the subject combines with an ergative c
control_vg_abstract_wz_names Visser’s Generalization and the c-command condition on Control Jacek Witkoś & Sylwiusz śychliński Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland The aim of this presentation is to address the issue of Visser’s Generalization (henceforth VG), holding that subject control (hence SC) verbs are incompatible with the passive, and propose a solution based on a combination of the
More on strategies of relativization: CP-extraction feeding complementizer agreement Dalina Kallulli University of Vienna Klima (1964) took relative and sentential that to be the same element, namely a complement- izer rather than a relative pronoun, a view that has recently been extended to (simplex) wh- elements (Pesetsky & Torrego 2006 for English/Dutch, Bayer & Brandner 2008 for German, cf. al
Geminates: from Old Norse to Scandinavian Languages. Laurence Voeltzel - Université de Nantes, Lling EA 3827 Consonants in scandinavian languages (Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Swedish and one variety of Norwegian, Bokmål) have very similar behaviors: they undergo the same changes. Some examples showing this proximity are given below in (1): (1). (a) semi-vocalization Icelandic /lagɪ/ [lajɪ] lie pas
Sam Steddy, steddy@mit.edu 1 Palatalisation across the Italian Lexicon 1. Introduction. Italian palatalises velars /k,g/ to affricates [tʃ,dʒ] if followed by front vowels /i,e/, though at the morpheme boundary this rule misapplies in both nouns (Giavazzi 2012) and verbs. This irregularity has roots in the evolution from late Latin - which had an exceptionless palatalisation rule - to modern Italia
Possessor case in Udmurt: A local reanalysis as fusional case stacking Philipp Weisser Timo Klein philipp.weisser@uni-leipzig.de timo.klein@uni-leipzig.de Universität Leipzig Universität Leipzig Doreen Georgi Anke Assmann georgi@uni-leipzig.de anke.assmann@uni-leipzig.de Universität Leipzig Universität Leipzig Claim: We claim that an alleged non-local case dependency in the Uralic language Udm
Agreement vs Concord in Icelandic Cherlon Ussery Carleton College This paper examines the morphology of passive participles, floated quantifiers, and secondary predicates in Icelandic. In Icelandic, verbs and passive participles agree only with nominative DPs. Floated quantifiers and secondary predicates, on the other hand, agree with whatever DP they modify, irrespective of the case of the DP. Th
Microsoft Word - Nobu-Glow36-revised-abstract.doc Nobu Goto (Mie University) Deletion by Phase: A Case Study of Gapping [Introduction] This paper aims to propose a new analysis of Gapping under Chomsky’s (2000:MI) Cyclic Spell-Out (hereon CSO). I claim: [1] Deletion as a consequence of CSO can optionally apply phase by phase: whether a Spell-Out domain is pronounced or deleted is determined upon S
Deriving the Functional Hierarchy Gillian Ramchand and Peter Svenonius, CASTL, University of Tromsø 1 Introduction. There is a tension between Chomsky’s recent Minimalist theory and the carto- graphic program initiated by Cinque. Cinque’s cartography argues for a large number of fine-grained categories organized in one or more universal Rich Functional Hierarchies (RFH). The subtlety of the eviden
Dinka and the architecture of long-distance extraction Norvin Richards and Coppe van Urk, MIT Summary: Work by Rackowski and Richards (2005) on Tagalog and Den Dikken (2009, 2012) on Hungarian shows that agreement between v and CP is necessary for long-distance extraction. These authors develop proposals in which this agreement allows v to probe into the CP phase, thereby doing away with the need
bilingual acquisition Italian-Venetan dialects GLOW Lund 2013 1 On the bilingual acquisition of Italian and Venetan dialects: A focus on subject and object clitic pronouns 1. In this talk, we present data from the bilingual first language acquisition of an Italian child acquiring Italian and a variety of Venetan, the Rosà dialect. His spontaneous productions from the age of 2;0.17 to the age of 3;
Selectivity in L3 transfer: effects of typological and linguistic similarity in the L3 Turkish of Uzbek-Russian bilinguals A sentence such as (1) is scopally ambiguous: It has a surface (see (1a)) and an inverse scope ((1b)) interpretation: (1) Jack didn’t find two guys. a. It is not the case that Jack found two guys. (e.g. Donald found one guy, three guys, no guys, etc.) b. There are two guys tha
The acquisition of reflexives and anticausatives by young heritage bilingual children-3 The acquisition of reflexives and anticausatives by young heritage bilingual German-Turkish and German-Russian children There is much discussion in the literature about whether cross-linguistic transfer due to typological/structural similarities and/or differences occurs in bilingual acquisition (for an overvie
Microsoft Word - abstract GLOW 36.docx 1 The quantificational asymmetry as a language-specific phenomenon Dutch and English are two closely related languages of the Germanic family, yet the acquisition of the Dutch binding principles by Dutch monolingual and Turkish-Dutch bilingual children is different from the acquisition of the English binding principles by English monolingual and Turkish-En
Topic vs. case marking in Japanese and Korean: Comparing heritage speakers and second language learners Heritage speakers (HSs) are subtractive bilinguals natively exposed to a minority language in childhood, but dominant in the societal majority language. Research suggests that HSs show unequal deficits at different levels of linguistic representations; e.g., they have few phonological problems b
A multi-step algorithm for serial order: Converging evidence from Linguistics and Neuroscience Cedric Boeckx1,2 & Anna Martínez-Álvarez2 1 ICREA & 2Universitat de Barcelona The present contribution aims to explore how serial order is computed in the human mind/brain from a biolinguistic perspective (Lenneberg 1967; Chomsky 2005; Di Sciullo et al 2010). To do so, the process of linearization is dec
GLOW abstract (6) Di Sciullo Concepts, Language, and Human Brain Ana M. Suárez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Studies on the relation between language and human cognition have agreed on two interrelated assumptions: (i) some concepts are innate; (ii) language creates some concepts. Developmental psychology has provided arguments to support (i), such as the possession of concepts in human babies, a
GLOW_2013_Constraints_on_Concept_Formation_Jaspers Constraints on Concept Formation Dany Jaspers (CRISSP-HUBrussels, KULeuven) 1. Introduction A limitation on natural concept formation and lexicalisation in natural language has hitherto gone unobserved. To bring it to light and show its relevance to biolinguistics, I will first characterize the nature of this Concept Formation Constraint (CFC) by
Microsoft Word - chesi-moro2012-GLOW.docx Hierarchy and Recursion in the Brain. Cristiano Chesi & Andrea Moro Ne.T.S. - IUSS Center for Neurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax, Pavia 1. Syntax in the brain. Neuroimaging techniques has offered interesting opportunities to deepen our understanding of the relationship between syntax and the brain (Cappa 2012). Two issues appear to be well- establishe
GLOW submission In Defense of the Merge-Only Hypothesis Koji Fujita / Kyoto University In this presentation I defend and further consolidate the “Merge-only” hypothesis of current minimalism (Chomsky 2008, 2010, Berwick 2011, Berwick & Chomsky 2011, inter alia) by proposing a theory of language evolution according to which it was Merge that gave rise to other major components of the human language
