1. Can agreement with the linearly closest conjunct be derived in syntax proper?Andrew Nevins, Boban Arsenijević, Jana Willer Gold, Franc Marušič, 2015, published scientific conference contribution abstract Abstract: The recent literature on South Slavic conjunct agreement can be roughly divided into two camps: those trying to model the cases of agreement with linearly closest conjunct, as in the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) example in (1) (taken from Bošković 2009), within syntax (Bošković 2009, Puškar & Murphy 2015 a.o.) and those claiming this agreement is a result of a postsyntactic operation that occurs after linearization and hence is sensitive to the linear distance between two syntactic elements (among these, Bhatt & Walkow 2013, Marušič et al 2015). We present a strong argument against strictly syntactic theories of conjunct agreement that leverages experimental work on BCS conjunct agreement and builds on data in Aljović & Begović (2015).
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Keywords: verb agreement, conjunct agreement, experimental syntax, Slovenian
Published: 21.03.2016; Views: 3795; Downloads: 0
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2. Experimenting on Conjunct Agreement under Left Branch Extraction in South SlavicFranc Marušič, Boban Arsenijević, Jana Willer Gold, 2015, unpublished conference contribution Found in: ključnih besedah
Keywords: Conjunct agreement, Agreement, Left Branch Extraction, Serbo-Croatian, South Slavic, experimental syntax
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3. Agreement errors and structural distance: A corpus study of BulgarianArthur Stepanov, Penka Stateva, 2016, original scientific article Abstract: In this work we address the phenomenon of substitution of the special “count form” suffix of masculine non-person nouns in Bulgarian numeral phrases for a simple plural morpheme. This substitution phenomenon is observed in everyday speech and writing and is noted by traditional Bulgarian grammarians. We propose to treat this phenomenon on a par with agreement errors previously investigated in the language production literature on English (e.g. “The editor of the books are...”) and on the Romance languages. We conducted a corpus study of agreement substitution errors in Bulgarian, the results of which support the psycholinguistic theories maintaining, in particular, that structural hierarchy is relevant for the computation of agreement in language production.
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Keywords: agreement, error, count form, feature, distance, Bulgarian
Published: 29.08.2016; Views: 4039; Downloads: 0 |
4. Sharing space is Slovenian Sign Language (SZJ)Matic Pavlič, 2015, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: In this paper my aim is to introduce Slovenian Sign Language (henceforth SZJ), provide evidence for the sublexical structure of SZJ signs and classify SZJ verbs with regard to their place of articulation. Using Picture Description Task methodology (Volterra et al. 1984) I interviewed seven SZJ native deaf signers and defined two main verb classes: those that are signed on the body and those that are not. According to the tradition of sign languages research (Padden 1983 for American Sign Language) they can be termed as body-anchored, non-agreeing or plain verbs and space-anchored or agreeing verbs, respectively. SZJ body-anchored verbs cannot adjust their place of articulation to the place of articulation of their arguments while SZJ space-anchored verbs move between two distinct loci in signing space adjusting the starting and the ending point of this movement to places where two of their arguments are articulated. I analyze this process as an overt verb-argument agreement and justify SZJ space-anchored verbs as agreeing verbs. I also consider non-manual agreement markings such as eye-gaze, head- and body-lean and show that these markings accompany space-anchored verbs more often than body-anchored verbs. Furthermore, I distinguish a subclass of SZJ verbs that are signed in one locus in space (usually on the non-dominant hand). I examine whether such verbs express agreement overtly or not. I conclude that they do because it shares the very same place of articulation with all of its arguments that are not body-anchored signs.
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Summary of found: ...analyze this process as an overt verb-argument agreement and justify SZJ space-anchored verbs as agreeing...
Keywords: agreement, Slovenian Sign Language, plain and agreeing verbs
Published: 06.11.2017; Views: 4043; Downloads: 0
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5. When linearity prevails over hierarchy in syntaxFranc Marušič, Tina Šuligoj, 2017, original scientific article Abstract: Hierarchical structure has been cherished as a grammatical universal. We use experimental methods to show where linear order is also a relevant syntactic relation. An identical methodology and design were used across six research sites on South Slavic languages. Experimental results show that in certain configurations, grammatical production can in fact favor linear order over hierarchical structure. However, these findings are limited to coordinate structures and distinct from the kind of production errors found with comparable configurations such as “attraction” errors. The results demonstrate that agreement morphology may be computed in a series of steps, one of which is partly independent from syntactic hierarchy.
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Summary of found: ...as “attraction” errors. The results demonstrate that agreement morphology may be computed in a series...
Keywords: experimental syntax, syntactic agreement, elicited language production, coordinated, noun phrases, South Slavic languages
Published: 15.01.2018; Views: 3493; Downloads: 178
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6. Countability and the structure of numeral-based QPsPenka Stateva, Artur Stepanov, unpublished invited conference lecture Found in: ključnih besedah
Summary of found: ...countability, atomicity, numeral, agreement, dual number, classifier, russian, morphology, syntax, semantics...
Keywords: countability, atomicity, numeral, agreement, dual number, classifier, russian, morphology, syntax, semantics
Published: 07.02.2018; Views: 3287; Downloads: 0
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7. Countability, agreement and the loss of the dual in RussianArtur Stepanov, Penka Stateva, 2018, original scientific article Found in: ključnih besedah
Keywords: agreement, atomicity, classifier, countability, dual number, numeral, Russian, Bulgarian
Published: 21.03.2018; Views: 3290; Downloads: 0
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