Frightening or englightening? An appraisal of the functions of the military metaphor in the AIDS context

CITATION: Biberauer, T. 1996. Frightening or englightening? An appraisal of the functions of the military metaphor in the AIDS context. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 29:130-143, doi:10.5842/29-0-102.The original publication is available at https://spilplus.journals.ac.zaNo abstract availablehttps://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/102Publisher's versio

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V2 and language change - the case of Afrikaans

The purpose of this paper is twofold: (a) to provide an exposition of the Verb Second (V2) properties exhibited in modern spoken Afrikaans; and (b) to highlight the possible insights that currently occurring changes may provide for the analysis of the V2 phenomenon generally. What is particularly interesting about the change in spoken Afrikaans is that different types of previously inadmissible embedded V2 structures are gaining currency at different rates: specifically, constructions in which the initial (preverbal) element is associated with interpretable features appear to be lagging behind those in which the first-position element is not associated with such features. My contention is that this points to an asymmetric analysis of V2

Subject positions and information-structural diversification in the history of english

The aim of this paper is to integrate Information Structure/IS-related insights of past work on the subject system of Old English with a particular formal account of word-order variation and change in earlier English that did not take IS considerations into account. We offer a first detailed formal account of how the IS-sensitive Old English subject positions can be understood in the context of an OV system which was becoming increasingly VO, and thereafter outline subject-related developments during Middle English and Early Modern English, leading us to the present day. Against the background of these diachronic developments, our contention is that English has, in one way or another, exhibited IS-sensitive subject positions throughout its history and that, as argued by Kiss (1996), it continues to do so today.L'objectiu d'aquest article és integrar idees relacionades amb l'Estructura Informativa (EI) de treballs anteriors sobre el subjecte oracional de l'anglès antic amb una explicació formal concreta de la variació i el canvi en l'ordre de mots en l'anglès primerenc que no tenia en compte l'EI. Presentem una primera explicació formal detallada de com les posicions de subjecte de l'anglès antic que són sensibles a l'EI es poden explicar en el context d'un sistema OV que començava a ser progressivament VO, i a continuació esbossem els desenvolupaments en la sintaxi del subjecte durant l'anglès mitjà i el principi de l'anglès modern, que ens porten fins a l'anglès actual. Amb el rerefons d'aquests desenvolupaments diacrònics, defensem que l'anglès ha presentat, d'una manera o altra, posicions de subjecte sensibles a l'EI al llarg de tota la història i que, com defensa Kiss (1996), encara ho fa

‘Ja-nee. No, I'm fine’ : a note on YES and NO in South Africa

CITATION: Biberauer, T., et al. 2017. ‘Ja-nee. No, I'm fine’ : a note on YES and NO in South Africa. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 48:67-86 doi:10.5774/48-0-281.The original publication is available at http://spil.journals.ac.zaThis paper considers some unusual uses of NO and YES observed in South African English (SAE) and other languages spoken in South Africa. Our objective is to highlight the fundamentally speaker-hearer-oriented nature of many of these elements, and to offer a formal perspective on their use. We also aim to highlight the value of pursuing more detailed investigations of these and other perspectival elements employed in SAE and other languages spoken in South Africa.http://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/281Publisher’s versio

Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure &nbsp

Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure &nbsp

Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure &nbsp

Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure &nbsp

Order and structure in syntax I: Word order and syntactic structure

This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using evidence from V2, object shift, word order gaps and different kinds of movement. The second group of papers all address the issue of subjecthood in some way, and examine how certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects, quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what might be universal to human language. This book is complemented by Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and argument structure &nbsp