Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar

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Essays on interfaces

Anna Maria Di Sciullo(Herausgeber*in)

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Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Interfaces in a biolinguistic perspective
1. Syntax, semantics
2. Features and interfaces
3. Phonology, syntax
4. Language development
5. Experimental studies
Acknowledgements
References
Part I. Syntax, semantics
Single cycle syntax and a constraint on quantifier lowering
1. Quantifier lowering: Some history
2. QL: Some alternative treatments
3. The empirical difficulty: QL is much less general than it is expected to be
4. Towards a theory?
5. A new approach (one excluding lowering in general, but allowing genuine low scope in limited circumstances)
6. Concluding remarks
References
A constraint on remnant movement
1. Introduction
2. Remnant movement and the JOC
3. Early motivation: German "incomplete category fronting"
3.1 The JOC and Müller's UD
4. Apparent counterexamples: The VP/TP domain
5. Negative preposing (Kayne 1998)
6. SVO, SOV and VSO word order
7. Verb-second as remnant vP-fronting
8. Conclusion
References
Language and conceptual reanalysis
1. Human languages as instruction generators
1.1 'I' Before 'E'
1.2 Executable expressions
1.3 Available operations
1.4 Illustrating introduction
2. Limited Conjunction Can Do a Lot
2.1 Varieties of conjunction
2.2 Minimal Dyadicity
2.3 Final remarks
References
Part II. Features and interfaces
Decomposing force
1. Introduction: Decomposition
2. Imperatives
2.1 General properties
2.2 Two types of imperatives: true vs. surrogate
2.3 Two classes of true imperatives
3. A modality feature
3.1 Negation and modality
3.2 More on modality
3.2.1 Modality in imperatives
3.2.2 Addressee orientation in imperatives
3.2.3 Time of evaluation
4. Account
5. Modality and 2nd person features in imperatives: The analysis
5.1 True imperatives
5.2 Surrogate imperatives - Subjunctives
5.3 Surrogate imperatives: Infinitives
6. Conclusions
References
Function without content
1. Introduction
2. Dissociating function from content
2.1 Evidence from tenseless languages
2.2 Evidence from tenseless constructions
2.3 Summary
3. Greek subjunctive na spells out the anchoring function of INFL
3.1 The distribution of na
3.2 na spells out [u coin]
4. The timing of spell out
5. Evidence from the use of na by individuals diagnosed with Down Syndrome
6. Conclusion
References
The association of sound with meaning
1. Introduction
2. The correspondence in existing verbs
2.1 How to find verbal telicity
2.2 Yamato-Japanese verb stems
2.3 The non-low vowels correspond to verbal telicity in existing verbs
2.3.1 Monosyllabic transitive verb stems
2.3.2 Bisyllabic transitive verb stems
3. The correspondence in nonce verbs
3.1 General experimental design
3.1.1 Subjects
3.1.2 The task
3.1.3 Stimuli
3.1.3.1 Sound tokens
3.1.3.2 Video clips
3.2 Monosyllabic nonce verbs
3.3 Bisyllabic nonce verbs
4. Implications for phonology
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgment
References
Appendices
Part III. Phonology, syntax
Towards a bottom-up approach to phonological typology
1. How many segments can be defined?
1.1 The standard claim: 2n
1.2 How many segments?
1.3 Less is more - "stripped-down" UG
2. How many inventories?
3. How many grammars?
4. Conclusions
References
The emergence of phonological forms
1. Introduction: Phonology & evolution
2. Features in phonological theory
3. Categorical perception
4. Babbling: Production to perception
5. Relating categories and features
6. Conclusions
References
Part IV. Language development
Non-native acquisition and language design
1. Introduction
2. What is the architecture of the language faculty?
3. What is included in the initial state (UG)?
4. Principles of language growth and the architecture of the FLB
4.1 Reinterpreting principles of UG
4.1.1 Case study 1: Knowledge of constituent structure
4.1.2 Case study 2: The principle regulating extraction out of strong islands
5. A problematic principle: The case of the overt pronoun constraint
5.1 The weak crossover principle
5.2 The OVC and the OPC
6. Non-native acquisition and language design
References
Interface ingredients of dialect design
1. Introduction
2. Unweaving the implications of bi-x
3. Bi-x and the dialect design
4. The acquisition of direct object clitic placement in CG
5. Constructing a socio-syntactic repertoire and the SSDH
6. Summary and outlook
References
Part V. Experimental studies
What sign languages show
1. Introduction
2. Visual adaptation to the processing of sign language
3. Kinematic features in sign language phonology
4. Neurolinguistic processing of visuo-kinematic markers
5. Conclusion
References
Indeterminacy and coercion effects
1. Minimalism and indeterminacy at the interfaces
2. "Coercion" and content
2.1 Three views on "coercion effects"
2.2 Lexical-semantic decomposition
2.3 Type-shifting rule
2.4 Structural gap
3. Linguistic evidence for the gap
3.1 Restructuring verbs
3.2 Middles
3.3 Compounds
3.4 Event nominal complements?
4. Pragmatic triggers
4.1 Context and enrichment: A memory experiment
4.2 Neurological bases of indeterminacy
5. Minimal representations and enrichment
References
Computation with doubling constituents
1. Introduction
2. Doubling constituents
3. Proposals
4. The Computer Model
5. Derivations
5.1 Pronoun-antecedent relations in mono-clausal constructions
5.2 Pronoun-antecedent relations in multi-clausal constructions
5.3 Pronoun-antecedent relations in possessive DPs
5.4 Pronoun-antecedent relations in picture DPs
6. The doubling constituent structure
7. Conclusion
References
Concealed reference-set computation
1. Introduction
2. The mathematical argument
2.1 Inimalist grammars
2.2 Linear tree transducers
2.3 Putting it all together
3. A practical example: Implementing merge-over-move
3.1 Merge-over-move explained
3.2 A transducer model of MOM
3.3 Empirical evaluation
3.4 Technical summary
4. Conclusion and further discussion
References
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index

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