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Bouma, Gosse; Malouf, Robert; Sag, Ivan A.

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“…To account for the unavailability of p-gaps in clld, the clitic-based dependencies can be lexically required to involve no`gappy' adjuncts. The treatment of adjuncts as on a par with arguments (Bouma et al 1997for English, Alexopoulou 1999 for Greek) permits us to state the constraint in the lexical entry of the verb that occurs at the`bottom' of the dependency. Unlike arguments, clausal adjuncts will be required to have their non-local feature empty.…”

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On Linkhood, Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation

2002

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This paper focuses on the Information Packaging notion of linkhood and provides a structural definition of this notion for Greek. We show that a combination of structural resources – syntactic (left dislocation), morphological (clitic duplication) and phonological (absence of nuclear accent) – are simultaneously exploited to realize linkhood in Greek, a generalization that can be captured in a constraint-based grammar such as HPSG, which permits the expression of interface constraints. We assume Vallduví's (1992) approach to Information Packaging, and Engdahl & Vallduví's (1996) implementation of the latter in HPSG, but deviate from Vallduví's work in adopting Hendriks & Dekker's (1996) revised definition of linkhood that relies on non-monotone anaphora. From an empirical point of view, our approach directly accounts for the invariable association of Clitic Left Dislocated NPs with wide scope readings, as well as a number of systematic differences in felicity conditions between Clitic Left Dislocation and other apparently related phenomena (Topicalization and Clitic Doubling). From a theoretical perspective, our analysis departs from syntax-based notions of topichood or discourse-linking and supports a definition that unifies linkhood with other anaphora phenomena. As such, it arguably overcomes previously noted problems for Vallduví's treatment of links as the current-locus-of-update in a Heim-style file-card system.

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On Linkhood, Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation

2002

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“…Here, the standard view clearly is that the syntactic operation is a precondition for the morphological operation to occur. More precisely, it is generally assumed that successive-cyclic movement makes movement-related morphology possible: Morphological pieces act as reflexes of successive-cylic movement (see McCloskey (1979;, Clements et al (1983), Collins (1993;, Chung (1994;, Cole & Hermon (2000), Fanselow &Ćavar (2001), Sabel (2000), Bouma et al (2001), Dalrymple (2001, ch. 14), Lahne (2009), and many others).…”

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“…73 A side remark: The movement-related morphological exponents in Irish are verbal particles that may in fact ultimately be better analyzed as vP-, or Agr O P-items (cf. Sells (1984), Bouma et al (2001), Lahne (2009) for discussion). In that case, it would have to be VP or vP (rather than TP) that is not inherently transparent.…”

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Constraints on Displacement

Müller

2011

Language Faculty and Beyond

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“…Our proposal is that lexical items can contribute more than a single EP and that one of these EPs (called the KEY, see figures (23) and (24)) plays a critical role in the mapping of arguments to direct argument functions, as indicated in the following two hypotheses (see Bouma et al 2000 for an early proposal in this direction). 17 HYPOTHESIS 2 (SEMANTIC SET HYPOTHESIS) Some lexical items include more than one EP in their semantic content and lexically select one of these EPs as their KEY.…”

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The KEY to lexical semantic representations

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Davis

2006

J. Ling.

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It is widely accepted that the semantic content of a lexical entry determines to a large extent its syntactic subcategorization or other contexts of occurrence. However, clarifying the precise extent to which this hypothesis holds has proven difficult and on occasion controversial. To maintain this hypothesis, scholars have in many difficult cases introduced syntactic diacritics in their lexical semantic representations, thereby running the risk of rendering it vacuous. Our answer to this challenge is two-fold. First, on the substantive side, we argue that the problem lies in the assumption that the semantic content of lexical entries consists of a recursive predicate-argument structure. In contrast, we claim that the semantic content of lexical entries can consist of a set of such structures, thus eschewing semantically unmotivated predicates that merely ensure the correct semantic geometry. Second, on the structural side, we suggest that the semantic content of words can idiosyncratically select one of those predicate-argument structures for the purposes of direct grammatical function assignment. We show that this hypothesis, which builds on independently motivated proposals regarding the form of underspecified natural language semantic representations, provides a clean account of linking phenomena related to several classes of predicators : verbs whose denotata require the presence of an instrument, the semantic role of French ' adjunct' clitics, commercial event verbs, the spray/load alternations, and lexical subordination constructions.Theories of the general principles governing the mapping of the semantic arguments of predicators onto syntactic functions or their subcategorization are often referred to as linking theories or mapping theories. 2 It is now [1] The order of the authors' names is random; each contributed equally to this paper.

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Cited by 145 publications

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On Linkhood, Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation

On Linkhood, Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation

Constraints on Displacement

The KEY to lexical semantic representations

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