The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

In his analysis of action sentences, Donald Davidson drew a clear distinction between arguments and adjuncts. Neglecting temporal relations, sentences like 

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We bought your slippers in Marrakesh.

Severing the External Argument from its Verb

Rules and Representations

This paper investigates the ability of artificial neural networks to judge the grammatical acceptability of a sentence, with the goal of testing their linguistic competence. We introduce the Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLA), a set of 10,657 English sentences labeled as grammatical or ungrammatical from published linguistics literature. As baselines, we train several recurrent neural network models on acceptability classification, and find that our models outperform unsupervised models by Lau et al. (2016) on CoLA. Error-analysis on specific grammatical phenomena reveals that both Lau et al.’s models and ours learn systematic generalizations like subject-verb-object order. However, all models we test perform far below human level on a wide range of grammatical constructions.

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Neural Network Acceptability Judgments

The structure of the Japanese language

Contributors. Introduction. Part I: Derivation Versus Representation:. 1. Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University). 2. Economy Conditions in Syntax: Chris Collins (Cornell University). 3. Derivation and Representation in Modern Transformational Syntax: Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut). 4. Relativized Minimality Effects: Luigi Rizzi (Universite de Geneve). Part II: Movement:. 5. Head Movement: Ian Roberts (University of Stuttgart). 6. Object Shift and Scrambling: Hoskuldur Thrainsson (University of Iceland). 7. Wh--in--situ Languages: Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo). 8. A--Movements: Mark Baltin (New York University). Part III: Argument Structure and Phrase Structure:. 9. Thematic Relations in Syntax: Jeffrey S. Gruber (independent scholar). 10. Predication: John Bowers (Cornell University). 11. Case: Hiroyuki Ura. 12. Phrase Structure: Naoki Fukui (University of California). 13. The Natures of Nonconfigurationality: Mark C. Baker (McGill University). 14. What VP Ellipsis Can Do, and What it Can't, but not Why: Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). Part IV: Functional Projections:. 15. Agreement Projections: Adriana Belletti (Universita di Siena). 16. Sentential Negation: Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University). 17. The DP Hypothesis: Identifying Clausal Properties in the Nominal Domain: Judy B. Bernstein (Syracuse University). 18. The Structure of DPs: Some Principles, Parameters and Problems: Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste). Part V: Interface With Interpretation:. 19. The Syntax of Scope: Anna Szabolcsi (New York University). 20. Deconstructing Binding: Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert (both Utrecht Institute of Linguistics). 21. Syntactic Reconstruction Effects: Andrew Barss (University of Arizona). Part VI: External Evaluation of Syntax:. 22. Syntactic Change: Anthony S. Kroch (University of Pennsylvania). 23. Setting Syntactic Parameters: Janet Dean Fodor (City University of New York). Bibliography. Index.

The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory

. I propose a theory of the passive that combines aspects of the principles and parameters analysis (no specific rules, no downward movement) and Chomsky's (1957) Syntactic Structures analysis (the arguments in the passive are generated in the same positions as they are in the active).

https://home.uni-leipzig.de/muellerg/collinspassive.pdf

A smuggling approach to the passive in english

Les As. montrent que si la theorie de la localite de Chomsky est adoptee, il est necessaire de postuler des projections fonctionnelles internes au SV afin de rendre compte du changement d'objet dans les constructions islandaises a double objet. Les As. rendent compte de ces projections fonctionnelles en analysant les verbes ditransitifs comme des constructions causatives ou un verbe causatif prend un complement ST. Ils montrent enfin que la structure fonctionnelle interne au SV est necessaire d'une maniere independante pour rendre compte des phenomenes lies a l'ordre des mots dans les constructions a particule en islandais

Vp-Internal structure and object shift in icelandic

It is shown that internal argument sharing is a necessary property of serial verb constructions in Ewe. Data involving the marking of oblique/default Case in Ewe show that argument sharing is mediated by the presence of empty categories, contra proposals by Baker (1989, 1991). Serial verb constructions are analyzed as control structures where the second verb incorporates into the first verb at LF

Argument sharing in serial verb constructions

Chomsky (1991, 1993) et Chomsky et Lasnik (1992) ont soutenu l'idee que les derivations syntaxiques sont contraintes par le principe d'economie de derivation. L'article soutient ce principe en montrant les deux consequences directes qu'il implique

Chris Collins

Papers

The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory

A smuggling approach to the passive in english

Vp-Internal structure and object shift in icelandic

Argument sharing in serial verb constructions

Economy of derivation and the generalized proper binding condition