and Wuppertaler Linguistisches Kolloquium. I owe a particular debt to Alan Prince and Paul Smolen... more and Wuppertaler Linguistisches Kolloquium. I owe a particular debt to Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky, for their extremely generous contributions to this work, and to Vieri Samek-Lodovici for his invaluable scrutiny of the manuscript. Two reviewers provided very helpful commentaries. Grimshaw 1993 and 1994 assumed an additional constraint, "Minimal Projection", which 1 required that a functional projection make a contribution to the functional representation of the extended projection that it is part of, thus ruling out entirely empty projections. In the current system, there is no need to stipulate such a constraint: the effects follow from OB-HD and STAY, as will be seen in Section 2.
This paper blends the presentations given by Alexiadou and Grimshaw at the Conference on Deverbal... more This paper blends the presentations given by Alexiadou and Grimshaw at the Conference on Deverbal Nouns held at the University of Lille in 2004. We thank the audience there for lively commentary and considerable assistance. Since the original talks overlapped in focus, but explored different stances on the issue of how nominalization is to be understood, the authors decided to embark on a direct comparison of the two approaches. Both are surprised by the results. 1 We simplify here by treating event structure as a property of verbs, rather than as a property of verbs in combination with their complements.
According to a "selective" (as opposed to "instructive") model of human language capacity, people... more According to a "selective" (as opposed to "instructive") model of human language capacity, people come to know more than they experience. The discrepancy between experience and eventual capacity (the "poverty of the stimulus") is bridged by genetically provided information. Hence any hypothesis about the linguistic genotype (or "Universal Grammar," UC) has consequences for what experience is needed and what form people's mature capacities (or "grammars") will take. This BBS target article discusses the "trigger experience," that is, the experience that actually affects a child's linguistic development. It is argued that this must be a subset of a child's total linguistic experience and hence that much of what a child hears has no consequence for the form of the eventual grammar. UG filters experience and provides an upper bound on what constitutes the triggering experience. This filtering effect can often be seen in the way linguistic capacity can change between generations. Children only need access to robust structures of minimal ("degree-0") complexity. Everything can be learned from simple, unembedded "domains" (a grammatical concept involved in defining an expression's logical form). Children do not need access to more complex structures.
CHAPTER FOUR Minimal Projection and Clause Structure Jane Grimshaw Rutgers University The focus o... more CHAPTER FOUR Minimal Projection and Clause Structure Jane Grimshaw Rutgers University The focus of this chapter is the puzzle that has been revealed by recent work in language acquisition. On the one hand, functional heads appear to be omitted from clause structure ...
What kinds of words can exist in natural languages? How are sentenced constructed? What is the re... more What kinds of words can exist in natural languages? How are sentenced constructed? What is the relationship between a word and the sentence in which it appears. How do language learners figure all this out? Presenting over a decade of original research, "Words and Structure" collects four influential papers that address the theory of words, the structure of sentences and the relationship between the two. Jane Grimshaw sheds new light on the fundamental questions of the nature of word meanings, sentence structure, and language acquisition. Those interested in the puzzles of language learning but dissatisfied with current theories and models should find this a valuable volume on the subject.
Mark Aronoff Richard Aslin Terry Au Mark Baker Dare Baldwin Jessica Barlow Misha Becker Paul Bloo... more Mark Aronoff Richard Aslin Terry Au Mark Baker Dare Baldwin Jessica Barlow Misha Becker Paul Bloom Heather Bortfeld Diane Brentari Morten Christiansen R. Breckinridge Church Harald Clahsen Eve Clark Suzanne Curtin Katherine Demuth Catharine Echols Jeff ...
A "last resort" is argued to be nothing more than a winning, i.e. grammatical form, once it is un... more A "last resort" is argued to be nothing more than a winning, i.e. grammatical form, once it is understood in terms of competition between alternative candidates. It is a theorem of OT that we find last resort effects, since it follows from the nature of competition and constraint interaction.
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Jun 15, 2000
... Peter Coopmans, Martin Everaert, Jane Grimshaw ... of O-Features 91 Daniel L. Everett Localit... more ... Peter Coopmans, Martin Everaert, Jane Grimshaw ... of O-Features 91 Daniel L. Everett Locality and Extended Projection 115 Jane Grimshaw Branching and Discharge 135 Hubert Haider Criteriality and Grammatical Realization 165 Lars Hellan 6-Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova ...
and Wuppertaler Linguistisches Kolloquium. I owe a particular debt to Alan Prince and Paul Smolen... more and Wuppertaler Linguistisches Kolloquium. I owe a particular debt to Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky, for their extremely generous contributions to this work, and to Vieri Samek-Lodovici for his invaluable scrutiny of the manuscript. Two reviewers provided very helpful commentaries. Grimshaw 1993 and 1994 assumed an additional constraint, "Minimal Projection", which 1 required that a functional projection make a contribution to the functional representation of the extended projection that it is part of, thus ruling out entirely empty projections. In the current system, there is no need to stipulate such a constraint: the effects follow from OB-HD and STAY, as will be seen in Section 2.
This paper blends the presentations given by Alexiadou and Grimshaw at the Conference on Deverbal... more This paper blends the presentations given by Alexiadou and Grimshaw at the Conference on Deverbal Nouns held at the University of Lille in 2004. We thank the audience there for lively commentary and considerable assistance. Since the original talks overlapped in focus, but explored different stances on the issue of how nominalization is to be understood, the authors decided to embark on a direct comparison of the two approaches. Both are surprised by the results. 1 We simplify here by treating event structure as a property of verbs, rather than as a property of verbs in combination with their complements.
According to a "selective" (as opposed to "instructive") model of human language capacity, people... more According to a "selective" (as opposed to "instructive") model of human language capacity, people come to know more than they experience. The discrepancy between experience and eventual capacity (the "poverty of the stimulus") is bridged by genetically provided information. Hence any hypothesis about the linguistic genotype (or "Universal Grammar," UC) has consequences for what experience is needed and what form people's mature capacities (or "grammars") will take. This BBS target article discusses the "trigger experience," that is, the experience that actually affects a child's linguistic development. It is argued that this must be a subset of a child's total linguistic experience and hence that much of what a child hears has no consequence for the form of the eventual grammar. UG filters experience and provides an upper bound on what constitutes the triggering experience. This filtering effect can often be seen in the way linguistic capacity can change between generations. Children only need access to robust structures of minimal ("degree-0") complexity. Everything can be learned from simple, unembedded "domains" (a grammatical concept involved in defining an expression's logical form). Children do not need access to more complex structures.
CHAPTER FOUR Minimal Projection and Clause Structure Jane Grimshaw Rutgers University The focus o... more CHAPTER FOUR Minimal Projection and Clause Structure Jane Grimshaw Rutgers University The focus of this chapter is the puzzle that has been revealed by recent work in language acquisition. On the one hand, functional heads appear to be omitted from clause structure ...
What kinds of words can exist in natural languages? How are sentenced constructed? What is the re... more What kinds of words can exist in natural languages? How are sentenced constructed? What is the relationship between a word and the sentence in which it appears. How do language learners figure all this out? Presenting over a decade of original research, "Words and Structure" collects four influential papers that address the theory of words, the structure of sentences and the relationship between the two. Jane Grimshaw sheds new light on the fundamental questions of the nature of word meanings, sentence structure, and language acquisition. Those interested in the puzzles of language learning but dissatisfied with current theories and models should find this a valuable volume on the subject.
Mark Aronoff Richard Aslin Terry Au Mark Baker Dare Baldwin Jessica Barlow Misha Becker Paul Bloo... more Mark Aronoff Richard Aslin Terry Au Mark Baker Dare Baldwin Jessica Barlow Misha Becker Paul Bloom Heather Bortfeld Diane Brentari Morten Christiansen R. Breckinridge Church Harald Clahsen Eve Clark Suzanne Curtin Katherine Demuth Catharine Echols Jeff ...
A "last resort" is argued to be nothing more than a winning, i.e. grammatical form, once it is un... more A "last resort" is argued to be nothing more than a winning, i.e. grammatical form, once it is understood in terms of competition between alternative candidates. It is a theorem of OT that we find last resort effects, since it follows from the nature of competition and constraint interaction.
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Jun 15, 2000
... Peter Coopmans, Martin Everaert, Jane Grimshaw ... of O-Features 91 Daniel L. Everett Localit... more ... Peter Coopmans, Martin Everaert, Jane Grimshaw ... of O-Features 91 Daniel L. Everett Locality and Extended Projection 115 Jane Grimshaw Branching and Discharge 135 Hubert Haider Criteriality and Grammatical Realization 165 Lars Hellan 6-Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova ...
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