Showing papers in "Linguistic Inquiry in 1991"

Romance Clitics, Verb Movement and PRO

Abstract: A puppet theater having a stage on which dolls and other figures are movable. The dolls are each frictionaly mounted in upstanding relation on a circular base which is slidable on the stage. A continuous cable is reeved around each doll base and pulleys rotatably mounted adjacent the lateral sides of the stage. The pulleys are rotated and used to move the cable and manipulate each attached base and doll on the stage.

On the Scope Principle

Abstract: Proposition d'un traitement unifie de la portee des quantificateurs, adverbes et modaux dans le cadre de la theorie du liage et du gouvernement. Exemples en anglais

Notions of subjecthood and Switch reference: evidence from Seri

Abstract: It is generally agreed that the notion "subject" plays an important role in the syntax of natural languages. Different theories, however, provide quite different characterizations of this notion. In Government-Binding (GB) Theory, as developed in Chomsky (1981; 1982) and much subsequent work, "subject" is a derivative notion that can, in effect, be construed in different ways. With respect to X-bar theory, the subject of a clause is the NP immediately dominated by S, that is, [NP,S]. Although this is the usual definition of "subject," there are ways of singling out other classes of elements that manifest properties generally associated with subjects. With respect to 0-theory, the element assigned the verb's "external 0-role" (Williams (1981; 1987), Zubizarreta (1985)) can be thought of as the logical subject of a clause-given the assumption that the external 0-role is assigned in passive clauses as in the analyses of Jaeggli (1986) and Baker (1988), among others. With respect to Case theory, the clausal subject could be defined as the NP assigned nominative Case.' The idea that grammatical relations are theoretical primitives is developed in Relational Grammar (RG) (see, for example, the papers in Perlmutter (1983a), Perlmutter and Rosen (1984), and Postal and Joseph (1990)) and Arc Pair Grammar (Johnson and

Subjacency Effects at LF : The Case of Hindi « Wh »

Abstract: L'auteur montre que le principe de sous-jacence peut s'appliquer au niveau de la forme logique, a l'aide de l'analyse des mots-WH en hindi. Etude theorique dans le cadre de la theorie des barrieres