Linguistics

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Beers, Kaffi, and Schnaps: Different Grammatical Options for Restaurant Talk Coercions in Three Germanic Languages

This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.This paper discusses constructions such as We'll have two beers and a coffee that are typically used for beverage orders in restaurant contexts. We compare the behavior of nouns in these constructions in three Germanic languages, English, Icelandic, and German, and take a closer look at the correlation of the morphosyntactic and semantic-conceptual changes involved. We show that even within such a restricted linguistic sample in closely related languages one finds three different grammatical options for the expression of the same conceptual transition. Our findings suggest an analysis of coercion as a genuinely semantic phenomenon, located on a level of semantic representations that serves as an interface between the conceptual and the grammatical systems and takes into account inter- and intralinguistic variations.Work on this paper was supported by NSF award BCS-0080377 to Boston University. The material is based in part on work done while the second author was serving as Director of the Linguistics Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this material are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation. For comments on an earlier version, we would like to thank two anonymous JGL reviewers.Peer Reviewe

Språknämndernas roll, framtid och uppgifter. En självrannsakande språkvårdarenkät

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Minimalist C/case

This article discusses A-licensing and case from a minimalist perspective, pursuing the idea that argument NPs cyclically enter a number of A-relations, rather than just a single one, resulting in event-licensing, case-licensing and phi-licensing. While argument case commonly reflects Voice/v-relations, canonical A-movement is driven by higher elements, either in the C-T system or in a superordinate v-system (in ECM constructions). In addition, there is a distinction to be drawn between the triggering of A-movement, by for example C, and the licensing of the landing site, by for instance T, C-probing leading to tucking-in into Spec-T. Much of the evidence presented comes from quirky case constructions in Icelandic and from ECM and raising constructions in Icelandic and English. It is argued that T in ECM constructions inherits phi-licensing from the matrix v, regardless of the case properties of v

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.Vita.Bibliography: leaves 148-150.Ph.D

Eng English Mac Macedonian Sr Serbian

Following Corbett’s (1986) bibliography of the genitive-of-negation construction, we have compiled the following bibliography on the so-called-no/-to construction in Slavic, thus named because the verbal form ends in either-no or-to, two allomorphs of the historically neut sg form of the past passive participle (now distinct from the neut sg form:-ne/-te in both Pol and Ukr). 1 Works on related constructions, primarily in Li and various Slavic dialects, are also included for comparison. This somewhat unusual construction, in which a seemingly passive verb assigns accusative case to its complement, has received considerable attention recently in the generative literature and has long been described because of its uniqueness in the Slavic linguistic literature. We have attempted to include any work that treats this phenomenon from any linguistic (incl. philological) viewpoint. If a title cites another work which itself doesn’t discuss-no/-to per se, then that other work will be relegated to a footnote. Likewise, if a title quotes a-no/-to ex from a literary, dialectological or ethnographic work which does not otherwise discuss-no/-to, then this work will also appear in a footnote. Additionally, because most items (especially journal articles) have proven difficult to find, we have listed the library and call number of the copy we examined. 2 1 The following general abbreviations are used in this bibliography: acc accusative fn footnote neut neuter adv adverb fnn footnotes nom nominative agr agreement gen genitive pf perfective dat dative impf imperfective pl plural emph emphasis incl including refl reflexive ex example inf infinitive sg singular exx examples inst instrumental subj subjunctive fem feminine masc masculine The following abbreviations are adopted for language names