Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics

Gianollo, Chiara; Guardiano, Cristina; Longobardi, Giuseppe

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“…and Icelandic (but also in most Indo-European languages) this will have the outcome at two levels: at LF (propositional thought) and at PF (full agreement on V). The identification of a functional category (here TP) as postulated by Vangsnes (2002) could be then satisfied by V-T movement, which is possible in CNSLs like Polish whose Vs bear the pronominal D-feature (Vangsnes 2002;Biberauer 2010;Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou 1998;Gianollo, Guardiano and Longobardi 2008) and impossible in PNSLs like Icelandic whose T 0 and V are D-less and hence force an overt pronoun which is referential/definite (Vangsnes 2002 calls it a [deixis] feature). If [Spec, vP] is left empty no predication can take place as predicted from our previous discussion:…”

Section: Polish and Icelandic Constructions With (Pro)nominalsmentioning

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The logical-semantic content of subject: A configurational view from syntax and LF

Jurczyk

2015

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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The paper raises the topic of what the functional and logical notion of subject is. It examines the syntax-semantic nature of Icelandic and Polish quirky subject constructions (subjectless clauses in which the initial DP bears oblique Case) with psych-verbs. Of main interest is the full vs. default agreement on V which nominative DPs and quirky subjects always trigger, respectively. We attempt to define the primitive notion of subject from two standpoints -its LF representation and how it is mirrored syntactically by the predication relation of the subject with respect to vP/VP and the proposition of the sentence in TP between the subject and T′. We discuss the semantic and configurational dependencies between quirky subjects and nominative DPs and vP and TP/CP. The paper investigates also the landing site for non-nominative initial DPs and argues for the Topic Phrase in the Left Periphery (Rizzi 1997) as a most natural candidate to host quirky subjects. Hopefully, the conclusions reached here may offer some way of bringing the notion of subject towards its more satisfactory understanding and description within the generative approach.

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Section: Polish and Icelandic Constructions With (Pro)nominalsmentioning

confidence: 96%

The logical-semantic content of subject: A configurational view from syntax and LF

Jurczyk

2015

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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“…Variation, and hence potential change, is due to legibility conditions at the interface with the conceptual-intentional 7 Actually, the study of absence of change, that is, of pertinacity in language histories yields important insights into the structure and the source of cross-linguistic variation, as Nichols (1992Nichols ( , 2003 has shown. Gianollo, Guardiano, and Longobardi (2008), Crisma and Longobardi (2009: 6-10). For syntax, the persistence of parametric values has been argued to convey a genealogical signal, which can be used to reconstruct phylogenetic relations among languages, cf.…”

Section: Variation and Changementioning

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“…For syntax, the persistence of parametric values has been argued to convey a genealogical signal, which can be used to reconstruct phylogenetic relations among languages, cf. in terms of parametric schemata by Gianollo, Guardiano, and Longobardi 2008), and as clustering in virtue of their implicational relations (modeled as parametric hierarchies in Roberts 2012a, b). system (meaning) and the sensorimotor system (sound): in other words, interfaces are the loci for Minimalist parameters.…”

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1. Language change at the syntax-semantics interface. Perspectives and challenges

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Penka³

2015

Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

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“…i.a. Dresher 2009Dresher , 2014 in the domain of phonology; Gianollo, Guardiano & Longobardi 2008;Longobardi 2017, andLongobardi 2018 for the proposal that specific parameters in fact reflect a limited number of innately specified parameter schema, and Rizzi 2014Rizzi , 2015 for a proposal in the same spirit; see also i.a. Zeijlstra 2008; Biberauer 2018 et seq.…”

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Factors 2 i 3: cap a un enfocament fonamentat

Biberauer

2019

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This paper seeks to make progress in our understanding of the non-UG components of Chomsky's (2005) Three Factors model. In relation to the input (Factor 2), I argue for the need to formulate a suitably precise hypothesis about which aspects of the input will qualify as 'intake' and, hence, serve as the basis for grammar construction. In relation to Factor 3, I highlight a specific cognitive bias that appears well motivated outside of language, while also having wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of how I-language grammars are constructed, and why they should have the crosslinguistically comparable form that generativists have always argued human languages have. This is Maximise Minimal Means (MMM). I demonstrate how its incorporation into our model of grammar acquisition facilitates understanding of diverse facts about natural language typology, acquisition, both in "stable" and "unstable" contexts, and also the ways in which linguistic systems may change over time.

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Three fundamental issues in parametric linguistics

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The logical-semantic content of subject: A configurational view from syntax and LF

The logical-semantic content of subject: A configurational view from syntax and LF

1. Language change at the syntax-semantics interface. Perspectives and challenges

Factors 2 i 3: cap a un enfocament fonamentat

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