The study explores the form and function of when, while, after, before, and until clauses in a variety sample of 218 languages. First, it is demonstrated that temporal adverbial clauses tend to be ...encoded with conjunctions and converbs in the database. A chi-squared goodness-of-fit test shows that after, before, and until meanings are strongly and similarly associated with monofunctional clause-linking devices cross-linguistically. While meanings are ambivalent, and when meanings are strongly encoded with polyfunctional clause-linking devices. Second, the paper also explores the polyfunctionality patterns of temporal adverbial clause-linking devices. While the semantic polyfunctionality patterns attested in the present research align, for the most part, with those documented by other typological studies, there are a number of patterns that have been neglected in the typological literature, such as the polyfunctionality pattern between while and without, between after and lest, and between before and lest, among others.
Waren taalsociologie, taalpolitiek en taaldidactiek vroeger disciplineoverschrijdende domeinen, nu beginnen ze het hart uit te maken van het taalonderzoek, en leerstoelen die vroeger pontificaal ...bezet werden door syntactici, morfologen, fonologen en lexicologen trekken nu steeds meer mensen aan die heel andere vooropleidingen gehad hebben. Misschien is het wat te voorbarig om hier al een trend in te zien, maar het werk van Arie Verhagen over intersubjectiviteit en van Ninke Stukker over stilistiek overspant de beide disciplines. Amsterdam University Press. Amsterdam University Press. Amsterdam University Press.
The article is dedicated to the local preposition na ‘on’ in Polish and its German equivalents auf. The main focus of the study are case alternations associated with the use of the preposition. The ...locative case in Polish is regarded as a structural case. Based on the observations on verb-independent case alternations, the preposition na ‘on’ in Polish is considered as a functional category with regard to the Principles and Parameters Theory the Minimalist Program.
Cinque’s (1999) cartographic theory associates one meaning with one functional head. As such, if applied to sentence-final particles (SFPs), cartographic assumptions ought to group semantically ...similar SFPs onto the same functional head cross-linguistically (cf. Pan 2019; Sybesma & Li 2007). However, I show that aspectual and restrictive focus SFPs in Cantonese and Mandarin (Sinitic, Sino-Tibetan) seemingly contradict Cinque by occupying different structural positions despite their semantic closeness. To shed light on the problem, I adduce novel data from Guangzhou Cantonese and Singapore Cantonese, demonstrating that SFPs borrowed into these varieties are treated differently according to their structural height. Likewise citing scopal and other facts, I ultimately make a case for placing SFPs in multiple phases (Chomsky 2000 etc.), following Erlewine (2017) and Biberauer (2017), but contra Pan (2019), a.o. To accommodate Cinque (1999), I ultimately submit that different-phase SFPs constitute distinct lexical classes, which each cluster separately, but in the same semantically determined sequence compatible with cartographic assumptions.
Using the examples of Russian verbs of thinking, feelings and perception, the author solves the problem of describing the sentential actants, which are realized in an asyndetic (conjunctionless) ...form. In publications based on the theory of explicative syntax, this aspect of the syntactic valency of verbs has not been previously taken into acount. The author shows that the asyndetic sentential actant is one of the realization forms of the propositional argument and, at the same time, a valence characteristic of verb: some verbs allow the asyndetic actant regularly, others sporadically, and others do not allow it at all. The author investigates the factors that influence the possibility or impossibility of using asyndetic actants: the particular lexical meaning of verbs; the derivative / secondary character of diathesis; the negative element in the verb meaning; 3-place semantic valency of verb.
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