Papers (UNORDERED) by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Aphasiology, 2014
Aphasiology. 2014; 28(11): 1385–1392.
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 2012
L'évaluation par les pairs est essentielle à la diffusion de la recherche. Ainsi, la... more L'évaluation par les pairs est essentielle à la diffusion de la recherche. Ainsi, la RCL tient à reconnaître la contribution des membres de la communauté de recherche qui ont généreusement offert leur temps et partagé leur expertise au cours de l'année qui se termine, et à les remercier.
This book consists of an introduction and twelve original analyses of Eastern Caribbean languages... more This book consists of an introduction and twelve original analyses of Eastern Caribbean languages, varieties that remain largely unexplored in Anglophone dialectology and pidgin and creole studies. This work and related plans to describe undocumented languages were conceived at a 1998 symposium on the goals of creolistics in the twenty-first century.
DEFINING THOUGHT• philosophers haven't really made any progress on what thought is since the Sci ... more DEFINING THOUGHT• philosophers haven't really made any progress on what thought is since the Sci Rev• psychologists have been focusing on whether animals think ('yes')–since Darwin (Descent of Man), difference is just one of degree–language is the best probe of thought (Fodor 1975, 2008)–Hauser (Wild Minds), Cheney & Seyfarth, etc.
Noam's writing and thinking has influenced me in my rather short career in linguistics today. Whi... more Noam's writing and thinking has influenced me in my rather short career in linguistics today. While I am a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park now, I wrote this essay as an undergraduate at the University of Wales, Bangor. It was there that I first heard of Noam's work. I have been politically interested and active for some time before going to Wales, yet I have not come across his work in Germany.
Abstract This work investigates first-language (L1) influence on second-language (L2) acquisition... more Abstract This work investigates first-language (L1) influence on second-language (L2) acquisition of embedded aspect, comparing participants with homogeneous L1 background (Russian) in Greece (L2 Standard Modern Greek) and Cyprus (L2 Cypriot Greek), where verb complementation takes a finite form instead of an infinitival as in Russian. The focus of the experimental study is on those embedded sentential environments which allow only perfective aspect in Greek but either perfective or imperfective in Russian.
Inflectional clitics can have properties beyond simple contraction (though they might turn out in... more Inflectional clitics can have properties beyond simple contraction (though they might turn out inflectional after all…). Take, for example, auxiliary clitics in Slavic.(7) a. Pisao sam pismo. Serbo-Croatian write. SG. M AUX. 1SG letter 'I wrote a letter.'b. Juče ste čitali knjigu. yesterday AUX. 2PL read. PL. M book 'Yesterday you read a book.'c. Ovu knjigu smo već čitali. this book AUX. 1PL already read. PL. M 'We have already read this book.'
This book, the published version of the author's Lund University doctoral dissertation, aims for ... more This book, the published version of the author's Lund University doctoral dissertation, aims for a record on the chapter/page-ratio scale; eleven chapters for less than 180 pages of text. The corollary is a very clear presentation: the reader always knows the purpose of a particular chapter and how it fits in with the main goal of the book, as the title suggests,'a minimalist account of word formation in Swedish, applied to the open word classes'(185). Josefsson presents her theoretical proposal in Ch. 3 and develops it mainly in Chs.
'Owis Ekwôskwe'Gwrrêi owis, kwesyo wənâ ne êst, ekwôns espeket, oinom ghe gwrrum woghom weghontm,... more 'Owis Ekwôskwe'Gwrrêi owis, kwesyo wənâ ne êst, ekwôns espeket, oinom ghe gwrrum woghom weghontm, oinomkwe megam bhorom, oinomkwe ghmmenm ôku bherontm. Owis nu ekwomos ewewkwet:“Kêr aghnutoi moi ekwôns agontm nerm widntei”. Ekwôstu ewewkwont:“Kludhi, owei, kêr ghe aghnutoi nsmei widntmos: neer, potis, owiôm r wənâm sebhi gwhermom westrom kwrnneuti. Neghi owiôm wənâ esti”. Tod kekluwôs owis agrom ebhuget.
The fourth volume of Biolinguistics signals a new road along several dimensions. First and foremo... more The fourth volume of Biolinguistics signals a new road along several dimensions. First and foremost, of course, the fact that we have been able to compile these four volumes, with a total of nearly one thousand pages (a single-issue volume 1 of 150 pages and three-issue volumes 2 and 3 of 364 and 420 pages, respectively, which each had a double-issue, the latter in the form of a special issue), is a feast in and of itself.
This slightly revised version of Han's excellent 1998 University of Pennsylvania dissertation mak... more This slightly revised version of Han's excellent 1998 University of Pennsylvania dissertation makes for a great book on imperatives and more. Not only does it discuss in considerable depth the structure and interpretation of imperatives across languages, but it also offers a diachronic perspective on the imperative in English, proposes a novel syntactic account in terms of the feature set-up of an imperative operator, discusses the syntactic and semantic contribution of mood and force, and applies the proposal to rhetorical questions.
Nicosia gpyoryia@ ucy. ac. cy Clausal left periphery is commonly used in structures which involve... more Nicosia gpyoryia@ ucy. ac. cy Clausal left periphery is commonly used in structures which involve an interface between syntax and semantics/pragmatics. The formalization of this interaction within the minimalist program is to assume that in each case a particular grammatical feature is made visible to the interpretative component as a discourse related feature.
ABSTRACT This dissertation addresses an unfortunate gap separating Minimalist theories of syntax ... more ABSTRACT This dissertation addresses an unfortunate gap separating Minimalist theories of syntax from the empirical study of morphosyntactic variation and change in progress. The dissertation demonstrates how this chasm might be bridged by using the theoretical framework of Distributed Morphology to analyze morphosyntactic variation and change data, and illustrates the benefits of this approach for both sides.
GAGL The working paper series Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik, founded by Werne... more GAGL The working paper series Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik, founded by Werner Abraham, will continue after Prof. Abraham's retirement in 2000. Subscribers may expect to receive volume 44 as soon as the new publisher, the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, has decided on a way to collect the subcription fees. For further information, go to http://www. let. rug. nl/~ zwart/gagl/
A serious empirical problem for D-Structure as conceived by GB is posed by the so-called tough-co... more A serious empirical problem for D-Structure as conceived by GB is posed by the so-called tough-construction (cf. Lasnik & Fiengo 1974, Chomsky 1977, 1981, 1993, Williams 1983, Culicover & Wilkins 1984, Levine 1984, Jones 1985—for an MP-analysis, see Hornstein 2001; see Hicks 2003 for a comprehensive GB&MP-review):
Uploads
Papers (UNORDERED) by Kleanthes K. Grohmann
clitics in the relevant context (“clitic languages”), thus establishing a robust cross-linguistic baseline in the domain of clitic and pronoun production for 5-year-olds. High rates of pronominal production are found in our results, indicating that children have the relevant pragmatic knowledge required to select a pronominal in the discourse setting involved in the experiment as well as the relevant morphosyntactic knowledge involved in the production of pronominals. It is legitimate to conclude from our data that a child who at age 5 is not able to produce any or few pronominals is a child at risk for language impairment. In this way, pronominal production can be taken as a developmental marker, provided that one takes into account certain cross-linguistic differences discussed in the article.
So it is with syntactic derivations. There is no intrinsic reason for them to stop. Starting at the bottom with the first elements that are merged, they could in principle go on and on without stopping - or the syntactician could say: "It's derivations all the way up." But in fact, we all assume that they do stop at some point - at the completion of the matrix sentence or thereabouts -, even though intrinsically, they could go on. This is the Apex Paradox that my friends Kleanthes, Neven, Markus, Tobias, and I try to address in this brief paper.
Within a mixed projection, where do properties of one category end — and where do properties of another category begin?
We will eventually realize that the question above can be recast as an investigation into the possible cut-off points between categorially uniform parts within a mixed projection. We will argue that these cut-off points coincide with the edges of Prolific Domains (Grohmann 2003) and offer an account of this observation, as well as some empirical support for it.