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An intervention account of the distribution of main clause phenomena: Evidence from ellipsis
Based on an examination of some asymmetries between VP ellipsis
and VP fronting, this paper argues for an intervention approach and against
a truncation approach to the distribution of main clause phenomena in
adverbial clauses and, by extension, in non-root contexts in general.
Adopting Authier’s (2011) treatment of VP ellipsis whereby the to-be-elided
VP undergoes fronting in the computational component but fails to be
spelled out at PF, these asymmetries follow from the fact that a fronted VP,
being an intervener for wh-movement in adverbial clauses, triggers a PF
crash unless ellipsis allows the derivation to converge via Bošković’s (2011)
‘rescue by PF deletion’ mechanism. This proposal entails that adverbial
clauses are derived by wh-movement (Haegeman (2006) among others) and
that the landing site for VP fronting is available in a non-root environment,
two assumptions that militate against a truncation account of non-root
clauses.Partiendo del examen de algunas asimetrías entre la elipsis del SV
y la anteposición del SV, este artículo propone una explicación basada en la
intervención y contrario a un enfoque basado en el truncamiento de la
distribución de los fenómenos de cláusula principal en cláusulas adverbiales
y, por extensión, también en cláusulas no principales en general. Si
adoptamos el tratamiento de la elipsis del SV de Authier (2011), en el cual el
SV a elidir se mueve a izquierda en el componente computacional aunque
termina no siendo pronunciado en la FF, estas asimetrías son consecuencia del hecho de que un SV antepuesto, por intervenir en el movimiento-Q de
cláusulas adverbiales, provoca una incompatibilidad en FF a menos que la
elipsis permita la convergencia de la derivación mediante el mecanismo de
‘rescate por borrado en FF’ de Bošković (2011). Esta propuesta implica que
las cláusulas adverbiales se derivan por movimiento-Q (Haegeman (2006)
entre otros) y que la posición a la que se mueve un SV antepuesto está
disponible en cláusulas no principales, dos supuestos que contradicen
explicaciones basadas en el truncamiento de las cláusulas no principales.Baseado numa análise de algumas assimetrias entre elipse de VP e
fronteamento de VP, este artigo defende uma abordagem intervencional e
rejeita uma abordagem de truncamento da distribuição de fenómenos de
orações raiz em orações adverbiais e, por extensão, em contextos não raiz em
geral. Adotando o tratamento da elipse de VP de Authier (2011), de acordo
com o qual o VP a elidir sofre fronteamento na componente computacional
mas não é interpretado em PF, estas assimetrias decorrem do facto de que
um VP fronteado, sendo um interveniente no movimento-wh em orações
adverbiais, desencadeia uma falha em PF, a não ser que a elipse permita que
a derivação convirja através do mecanismo de “reconstrução por
apagamento em PF” de Bošković (2011). Esta proposta implica que as
orações adverbiais sejam derivadas por movimento-wh (Haegeman, 2006;
entre outros) e que a posição de chegada para o fronteamento de VP esteja
disponível num ambiente não raiz, duas assunções que vão contra uma
abordagem de truncamento de orações não raiz
Against restructuring in modern French
Cinque (2002) examines those transparency effects that have been claimed to point to the existence of restructuring in French and concludes that quantifier and adverb climbing depend not on restructuring but, rather, on an irrealis context. In this paper, we show that restructuring does not play an active role in explaining the existence of en `of-it\u27 and y `there\u27 climbing or long movement in `easy-to-please\u27 constructions either, which leads to the conclusion that Modern French has no transparency effects of the restructuring kind. We then present three arguments against Cinque\u27s (2004) thesis that verbs of the restructuring class are universally functional verbs that appear with infinitives in a monoclausal configuration. Instead, we adopt the Cinque (2001)/Cardinaletti & Shlonsky (2004) approach according to which restructuring verbs can be merged either as lexical or functional verbs. We argue that this approach should be parametrized to yield three options that account for cross-linguistic/dialectal variation associated with restructuring
Identifying Phonologically Overt Counterparts to Silent Elements: The Case of French Exceptives
A relatively recent development in the generative framework is the hypothesis that there exist in syntax silent elements (SEs) that have a semantic content that is recovered by accessing their phonologically overt counterparts (cf. Kayne 2005, 2012 and Her and Tsai 2015, among others). In this paper, we provide a careful assessment of the two SEs that have been argued by O’Neill (2011) and Homer (2015) to be present in the French (ne)…que exceptive construction; namely silent rien ‘nothing’ and silent autre ‘other’. In doing so, we take to heart one of the main points made by Her and Tsai (2015) in relation to their criticism of Kayne (2012); namely, that for a proposed SE to be learnable, there cannot be any deviation in meaning from its overt counterpart. That is, the recoverability constraint assumed in the generative framework to be at work in, say, PF-deletion ellipsis, applies to all phonologically silent categories, including SEs. Additionally, as Her and Tsai argue, if semantic deviance between SEs and their phonologically overt counterparts were allowed, SEs would become ‘empirically intractable’. We argue that while positing a silent n-word in (ne)…que is faithful to the recoverability constraint on silent categories, the alleged second SE, namely, silent autre ‘other’, is not semantically equivalent to its phonologically overt counterpart in several respects. As we demonstrate, however, if one assumes instead that its overt counterpart is plus ‘more’, the recoverability requirement is restored
French Tough-Movement Infinitives as Deverbal Nominals
In this paper, we argue that predicates of the tough-class in French embed not a verbal infinitive but rather, a gerundive verbal noun. This hypothesis allows us to capture a number of unexpected restrictions on French tough-movement discussed by Legendre (1986). We show that these restrictions are best described as the inability of French tough-movement infinitives to be followed by complements that are disallowed in their corresponding argument-taking event nominals. Our analysis of such infinitives as nominalized elements correctly predicts that they should never be selected by auxiliaries, and that they should have suppressed external arguments in the sense of Grimshaw (1990)
Conventional Form
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J.
Fillmore (1994
Simulations of Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction in Laue Geometry
A method of computer simulation of Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction (TRXD) in
asymmetric Laue (transmission) geometry with an arbitrary propagating strain
perpendicular to the crystal surface is presented. We present two case studies
for possible strain generation by short-pulse laser irradiation: (i) a
thermoelastic-like analytic model; (ii) a numerical model including effects of
electron-hole diffusion, Auger recombination, deformation potential and thermal
diffusion. A comparison with recent experimental results is also presented.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figure
Mn incorporation in as-grown and annealed (Ga,Mn)As layers studied by x-ray diffraction and standing-wave uorescence
A combination of high-resolution x-ray diffraction and a new technique of
x-ray standing wave uorescence at grazing incidence is employed to study the
structure of (Ga,Mn)As diluted magnetic semiconductor and its changes during
post-growth annealing steps. We find that the film is formed by a uniform,
single crystallographic phase epilayer covered by a thin surface layer with
enhanced Mn concentration due to Mn atoms at random non-crystallographic
positions. In the epilayer, Mn incorporated at interstitial position has a
dominant effect on lattice expansion as compared to substitutional Mn. The
expansion coeffcient of interstitial Mn estimated from our data is consistent
with theory predictions. The concentration of interstitial Mn and the
corresponding lattice expansion of the epilayer are reduced by annealing,
accompanied by an increase of the density of randomly distributed Mn atoms in
the disordered surface layer. Substitutional Mn atoms remain stable during the
low-temperature annealing.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
Prediction for new magnetoelectric fluorides
We use symmetry considerations in order to predict new magnetoelectric
fluorides. In addition to these magnetoelectric properties, we discuss among
these fluorides the ones susceptible to present multiferroic properties. We
emphasize that several materials present ferromagnetic properties. This
ferromagnetism should enhance the interplay between magnetic and dielectric
properties in these materials.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, To appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed
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