Showing papers in "Lingua in 2002"

TL;DR: The authors show that rhetorical questions and ordinary questions do not pattern alike with respect to various well-formedness conditions, such as negative polarity item licensing, and propose a way of deriving the interpretation of rhetorical questions.

TL;DR: It is argued that OT can be extended to accommodate SCC effects by using local constraint conjunction, and the predictions of this approach are compared to the SCC and found to be superior in several respects.

TL;DR: This article examined the empirical and theoretical basis of the claim that children master intonation before the onset of speech and concluded that natural tendencies are not sufficient to account for children's development of intoneation.

TL;DR: This article argued that morphological regularity correlates inversely with phonological irregularity, and that the correlation can only be captured under a single-rather than dual-route architecture, and an associational rather than rule-based theory of morphology.

TL;DR: Subject—object distinctions in pronominal systems of languages like Dutch and English are not similar to nominative—accusative oppositions in languages with morphological case, since pronouns do not show the syntactic effects of morphological Case, but they show a fundamental distinction between head marking and dependency marking.

TL;DR: The authors argue that a theory without lexical categories provides a better account of creative language use and category-specific neurological deficits, while also offering a natural solution to the bootstrapping problem in language acquisition.

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to prove that a systematic relationship can be established between their unique syntactic properties, their semantic import, their distribution in discourse and the range of possible interpretations they can receive.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that subject extraction over complement clauses yields ungrammaticality because the Agr-features of T fail to be lexicalized; thus the CP phase contains features that have not been satisfied and the derivation crashes, and the interpretation of Agr as a variable is determined in connection with the wh-phrase in the matrix Spec,CP via the operation Agree.

TL;DR: Data from German and Hungarian are reviewed, with the aim of showing that “Scope Freezing” effects of the kind discussed earlier in the paper for Hindi make the direct dependency analysis for these languages implausible as well.

TL;DR: By allowing co-articulation, speech rate and register to play a role in the sound component of the grammar, this analysis accounts for the gradiency, and great deal of cross dialectal and dialect internal variation exhibited by Spanish spirantization.

TL;DR: This paper found that children with SMA explore language in place of a world they cannot reach, building grammatical knowledge while able-bodied toddlers are engaged with the physical environment, which supports the view of a separate learning system for grammar but cannot explain the classical account of a grammar module.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that internally headed relative clauses in Korean can be best characterized by their semantic and pragmatic properties, especially via lexically inherent properties of spatial and temporal variables posited for the predicates of the relative clause and the main clause.

TL;DR: The authors examines the syntactic structure of nominal expressions (NE) containing possessive phrases with special attention on Bulgarian NE with possessive clitics. But they do not consider the possibility of clitic climbing to the verb for reasons of case.

TL;DR: This paper explored the hypothesis that coda weight is ultimately predictable from syllable structure and showed that languages that allow a proportionately large set of high sonority codas are far more likely to treat CVC as heavy than languages possessing a smaller inventory of high-sonority coda.

TL;DR: Les As. as discussed by the authors constatent un manque de contact entre linguistique theorique and linguistic appliquee, which semble du au fait que la linguisticique applique a tendance a developper ses propres theories.

TL;DR: The state-of-the-art in the field of Tibeto-Burman phylogeny can be found in this article, where a review of the state of the art is given.

TL;DR: Borsley et Ingham as discussed by the authors discuss the tendance of linguistique appliquee a creer ses propres theories sur le langage, ce qui la rend non pas complementaire de la linguistaique theorique, mais alternative.

TL;DR: The influence of mathematics on the development of syntactic theory in the 20th century is explored in this article, with specific reference to the use of formal proof-theoretical procedures, the annexation of recursive function theory and the assumption that mathematical form and meaning are separable.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the phenomenon cannot be understood in purely phonological terms, but must also take morphosyntactic properties of the language into account, and formulate accurate generalisations which capture the phenomenon, and bring the phenomenon within the range of current theories.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results from an experimental study designed to assess a group of SLI children's ability to judge the grammaticality of a range of negative constructions.

TL;DR: A summary of developments in Austronesian linguistics during the period 1991-2002 can be found in this article, where the authors introduce a general linguistic public to the synchronic study of Austronesia.

TL;DR: In contrast, contrary negation, not used to deny a proposition but rather used to weaken an assertion, has no Q value and can be expressed by negation alone as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou's (1998) analysis of referential pro-drop languages like Greek and Spanish was extended by incorporating the notion of subject of predication as a feature checking relation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine le statut phonologique des voyelles orale/consonne nasales du creole haitien and propose to represent ces elements par a sequence of voyelle orale and nasal flottante.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the analysis of possessive DPs involves a mixture of overt and covert D raising, and that a Spec-head agreement analysis much along lines originally suggested by Longobardi (Linguistic Inquiry 25, 1994, 609-665) is preferable to either D raising analysis.

TL;DR: This article presents a reanalysis of locatum/location verbs within the framework of Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology (LMBM) and argues in accord with LMBM's strict modularity that both syntax and semantics have a role.