Approaches to head movement: A critical assessment

Dékány, Éva

doi:10.5334/gjgl.316

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“…3 We leave out of the discussion the problems inherent to Head Movement itself, pointed out in diverse critiques for decades now (at least since Chomsky 1995). See Dékány (2018) for a recent overview.…”

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Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach

Acedo-Matellán,

Kwapiszewski

2024

Linguistic Inquiry

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We dispute Folli and Harley’s (2020) account of Talmy’s typology, as it does not derive the unavailability of satellite-framed constructions in verb-framed languages, and it fails to predict the existence of weak satellite-framed languages like Latin and Slavic (Acedo-Matellán 2016). We propose an alternative approach based on Spanning (Svenonius 2016). Variation stems from the distribution of PF-interpretable features on the resultative head Res. Depending on the language, this head may or may not bear features triggering lexical access (w) and linearization (@). Conforming with minimalist desiderata, our account captures a wider range of Talmian patterns and produces some novel successful predictions.

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Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach

Acedo-Matellán,

Kwapiszewski

2024

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“…There are various options to model head movement and its triggering factors. A comprehensive overview of the main conceptual alternatives and their merits can be found in Dékány (2018). For the present analyses, I adopt the reprojection approach developed in Biberauer & Roberts (2010) and Roberts (2010).…”

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A sentence mood account for Spanish verum

Kocher

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This article argues in favor of the idea that verum can result from focus marking on sentence mood. The empirical base are verum strategies in Spanish, English and German. It is shown that all of them result from stress on sentence mood, even though the strategies to express verum in the three languages appear unrelated on a superficial level: German and English rely on stress on a finite verb, Spanish inserts a particle. In the article, a semantic and syntactic account complete each other. The semantic approach is a revised version of Lohnstein’s sentence mood theory of verum focus. The effect of verum in different sentence moods is derived by the function each mood has and the alternatives that focus on them generates. The syntactic analysis is modeled in a cartographic framework (Rizzi 1997 et seq.) and motivates a projection in the lower section of the left periphery dedicated to sentence mood. A focus feature in this projection results in the verum interpretation of the proposition. The principal argument developed in this article is that the superficial differences across languages and clause types result from the fact that the focused mood feature is checked in different configurations.

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“…Some researchers argue that head movements to be part of the narrow syntax and others as a post-syntactic movement or non-movement (i.e., a linearization process). This issue is overlooked here since, to my knowledge, no theory exists without some limitations and disadvantages (for a detailed discussion and references, see Dékány, 2018) 39) a. Basic structure b.…”

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The Nominality of Tłı̨chǫ Classificatory Verb Stems and the Simplicity of Dene Verbal Morphology

Al-Bataineh¹

2020

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This paper investigates the phenomenon of ‘classificatory verbs’, i.e., a set of verbs whose stems alternate to categorize the verbal arguments with regard to animacy, shape, material consistency, etc. Similar to equivalent verbs in other Dene languages, Tłı̨chǫ classificatory verbs are shown to belong to four semantic classes that do not have the same stem inventories or consistent patterns of stem selection. Based on various pieces of evidence, viz., optionality of the classified argument, argument saturation, verbal augmentation, verb-noun correspondence, referentiality, and noun incorporation, the paper argues against the maintenance of the notion that the so-called verb stem is a verbal element; instead, it is a root that merges with a nominalizer to form a nominal affix. In the light of this argument, the paper extends the analysis to non-classificatory verbs claiming a conceptually simpler and computationally more economical analysis of Tłı̨chǫ verbal morphology within the minimalist approach.

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Approaches to head movement: A critical assessment

Cited by 18 publications

References 76 publications

Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach

Talmy’s Typology Revisited: A Spanning Approach

A sentence mood account for Spanish verum

The Nominality of Tłı̨chǫ Classificatory Verb Stems and the Simplicity of Dene Verbal Morphology

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