This paper reaffirms that “Locality” is the major orientation in grammar (Emonds, 1985; Chomsky, 2001; among others). The universal locality restrictions in human grammar follow from the way language acquisition operates (cf. Wexler and Culicover, 1980). This is not meant as a particularly profound insight. There is very little else for an initial acquisition procedure to adhere to. Structures for stress rules, abstract categories, or empty categories, let alone underlying representations and transformations may be innate or not, they cannot be applied until there is some grammar. Initially of course, there is no grammar yet, since the acquisition procedure is still on its way to find one out.

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Locality constraints imposed by acquisition frames

This stimulating and provocative essay is an enlarged version of a paper presented at the Robert Branner Forum of Medieval Art annual symposium held in New York at Barnard College on 5 April 1987. At the editor's request Prof. Dynes added the scholarly apparatus of notes and references, but allowed the paper to be published essentially as delivered. As he makes clear this is not intended to be the last word on the subject, but seeks to encourage thought.

Art, Language, and Romanesque

Les trente dernieres annees ont vu le passage d’une conception representationnelle de la culture a une conception de pratique active. La culture se voit affectee d’une valeur generatrice d’interaction sociale. On peut dire qu’on assiste ici a un changement de paradigme, a un tournant pragmatique. Il faut substituer aux legitimites qui mobilisent la culture comme monnaie d’echange pour acquerir ou conserver des positions sociales, des modes de legitimation de pratiques qui tiennent compte des potentialites de developpement de la personnalite du sujet. La mediation esthetique, par le fait de l’enonciation, peut permettre au sujet de construire des relations avec autrui et le monde.

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Pratiques culturelles, médiation artistique et lien social

Introduction L’objectif de la presente communication consiste a montrer qu’une approche multimodale ou « etho-linguistique » du dialogue et des conduites de discours oral est aujourd’hui possible. Au prealable, qu’entend-on par approche « etho-linguistique » ? Les conduites discursives sont des conduites complexes, que l’on peut tenter de saisir soit a un niveau global (comment realise-t-on un recit ou un expose theorique ? comment gere-t-on un entretien ?), soit a un niveau local (comment pe...

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La prise en compte de la multimodalité de la parole dans la description et analyse des conduites langagières

The paper gives an analysis of productively occurring dative constructions in German, attempting to unify what are known traditionally as Double Object and Experiencer Datives. The datives in question - cipients as we call them - are argued to be licensed under two conditions: One, predicates licensing cipients project a theme and a location argument internally; two, interpretation of the predication as a whole involves reference to two dissociated temporal intervals, or more generally, indexical truth intervals. It is argued that the location argument is needed because it provides the variable that is bound by the cipient argument - the variable in question ranges over superlocations of the location argument referent. Reference to two truth intervals is forced because interpreting the cipient structure involves evaluation of two propositional meanings that would contradict each other in a single context. The first propositional meaning is embedded in the predicate; it encodes that something is at a certain location (in quality space). The second propositional meaning is projected as a presupposition that corresponds just to the negation of the first one. The cipient, functioning as the logical subject of the construction, accommodates this second presuppositional meaning; this makes the construction as a whole interpretable. The analysis applies uniformly to what appear to be the two major contexts licensing cipients: ‘eventive’ and ‘foo-comparative’ predications, thereby accounting for some striking parallels between them.

Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) &#8212; A view from German

Communication using symbols (such as words) structured with grammar

Problèmes de linguistique générale

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Locality constraints imposed by acquisition frames

Art, Language, and Romanesque

Pratiques culturelles, médiation artistique et lien social

La prise en compte de la multimodalité de la parole dans la description et analyse des conduites langagières

Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) — A view from German

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Locality constraints imposed by acquisition frames

Art, Language, and Romanesque

Pratiques culturelles, médiation artistique et lien social

La prise en compte de la multimodalité de la parole dans la description et analyse des conduites langagières

Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) &#8212; A view from German

Related Papers (5)

The Minimalist Program

Cours de linguistique générale

How to do things with words

Derivation by phase

Lectures on Government and Binding

Receiving and perceiving datives (Cipients) — A view from German