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 present paper investigates punctual vs. habitual readings of Romanian proper temporal names of the type luni ‘Monday’ vs. lunea ‘Monday.def’. These readings are associated with the absence vs. ...presence of the definite article (Franco and Lorusso 2022). The paper makes two major claims. Firstly, following Longobardi (1994, 2005), and Franco and Lorusso (2020), the paper claims that with bare, i.e., definiteless, proper time names, N-to-D movement triggers individual-like reference, which, in turn, explains why the event is interpreted as punctual. Secondly, the paper shows that the structure of proper temporal names is complex, in the sense that it contains the classifier zi ‘day’, thus paralleling the structure of complex descriptive proper names of the type ‘the planet Venus’ (see van Riemsdijk 1998, Cornilescu 2007 a.o.). This classifier is shown to be overt when there is no N-raising, and silent when N raises to D in the structure of proper temporal names.
With recent developments in Case Theory, movements in which a DP acquires a different case to the one it would have received had it not moved have been accepted as a possibility. In this paper we ...examine a number of such movements from a variety of languages to attempt to characterise and understand them more fully. Based in Dependent Case Theory, our analysis claims that case change does not really happen, but case assignment is allowed to be delayed under certain circumstances creating the illusion of one case over-writing another. In explicating these circumstances, we are not only able to provide a better understanding of when ‘case change’ can and can’t happen, but also develop the theory in ways which address certain conceptual problems that it faces.
This study provides a novel look at do so replacement within the framework of the Bare Phrase Structure theory. Unlike the previous view of do so as a monolithic VP anaphor, I argue that do so is ...better analyzed as do and so, separately substituting for a functional Voice head and VP, respectively. This argument is supported by the observation of VP adverbs, the locative/directional interpretation of PPs, and the analysis of voice mismatch. The study consequently presents a more refined model of VP than the previous X-bar theoretic model, as it fulfills the structural requirement between complements and adjuncts.
To assess syntactic and discursive maturity, it is necessary to measure the ability to produce complex syntactic units and to cohere a text through discourse connectors and sequences of direct and ...indirect speech that respect deictic references. In this study, the degree of syntactic and discursive complexity of a narrative text written by adolescents studying their 3rd year of ESO is verified. To do this, the variables of the sex and academic level of the students are taken into account, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the syntactic maturity evaluation indices used since Kellogg Hunt (1970), which are basically the minimum unit terminals (t-units) and the clauses and the discursive maturity evaluation indices that allow the checking of the cohesion of the discursive elements in relation to the topic that give coherence to the text. The methodology used is the quantitative analysis of the proposed evaluation indices, which provides objectivity and exhaustiveness, and a comment based on the results, considering that the higher the academic level of the student, the greater the complexity of the text prepared and, consequently, the greater its syntactic and discursive maturity. This research, in fact, aspires to verify the importance of the academic level of the students in the development of the acquired syntactic and discursive maturity and, on the contrary, the irrelevance that the sex of the students has in this same process.
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.
