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Motivating head movement: The case of negative inversion in West Texas English Sabina Matyiku (sabina.matyiku@yale.edu) Yale University Negative inversion (or Declarative Negative Auxiliary Inversion) is a phenomenon present in some varieties of North American English such as African American English, Appalachian English, and West Texas English (WTE). Constructions exhibiting negative inversion ar
Pro-drop as ellipsis: evidence from the interpretation of null arguments Maia Duguine University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU & University of Nantes GOAL. In this talk, I defend a DP/NP-ellipsis (DPE) analysis of pro-drop cross-linguistically. 1 PRO-DROP AS DPE. The standard view is that there are different types of pro-drop phenomena across languages (cf. recently Holmberg 2010); e.g. DPE is at
General session Raising to Object from finite CPs: dual A/A-bar and MCC Gabriela Alboiu & Virginia Hill Issue. In colloquial Romanian (Rom) verbs expressing knowledge from reasoning (e.g. cunosc, ştiu ‘know’) or inference (e.g. văd ‘see/realize’, aud ‘hear/find out’) allow for the thematic subject of their embedded clause to surface either in the finite indicative complement CP, with NOM spell-out
1 Sachs The Semantics of Hindi Multi-Head Correlatives Konstantin Sachs (University of Tübingen) Introducing Hindi Correlatives: Correlatives are biclausal structures which consist of pairs of topic and comment clauses. (Bittner (2001)) The first of which is structured like a relative clause, while the other contains a demonstrative item that refers to what is described in the relative. In Hindi,
Who triggers focus intervention effects? Haoze Li and Jess Law The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1 Introduction This paper concerns focus intervention effects (FIEs) in Chinese. Specifically, when wh-words are preceded by focus particles and their focused associates, wh-questions become ungrammatical (1) (focus particles are boldfaced and their focused associates are underlined throughout). (1)
Microsoft Word - EngNorw_biling.docx Cross-linguistic influence and structural overlap affecting English verb placement It is well-known that although bilingual children clearly separate their languages from very early on (cf. e.g. Genesee 1989, Meisel 1989), cross-linguistic influence between the child’s languages is a fairly common phenomenon. Various proposals have been put forward to account f
The importance of typological proximity for the acquisition of clitic objects in Italian/French in simultaneous vs successive bilingualism Petra Bernardini (Lund University) This study concerns the acquisition of third person object clitic pronouns (OCL) in Italian and French in bilingual (successive vs simultaneous) and monolingual preschool children and is based on an elicitation task. It addres
NorEngDP-GLOW2013 1 Word order and definiteness in the Norwegian DP: Complexity, frequency and structural similarity in bilingual acquisition and attrition Nowegian DP constructions are relatively complex, especially compared to English. Norwegian possessives may be pre- or postnominal (1a, b), while English possessives are always prenominal (1c). The distinction between the two word orders in
Microsoft Word - GLOW_Sheehan_Biolinguistics_2012_1.docx A parameter hierarchy approach to alignment Michelle Sheehan, University of Cambridge Following the format in [1], this paper presents an attempt to characterize the general parameter hierarchy governing case/agreement alignment in (i) clauses and (ii) ditransitives, arguing that a unified approach has rich empirical support as well as conce
TrotzkeBader_GLOW2013 1 Against usage-based approaches to recursion: The grammar-performance distinction in a biolinguistic perspective Andreas Trotzke (Konstanz) & Markus Bader (Frankfurt) Keywords: syntax; processing; recursion; center-embedding; third factor The distinction between grammar and performance distinguishes the biolinguistic approach to language from other cognitive accounts such as
Microsoft Word - GLOW2.docx Timothy Bazalgette University of Cambridge (i) (ii) (iii) An algorithm for lexicocentric parameter acquisition. Under the lexicocentric view of syntax (c.f. Baker 2008’s “Borer-Chomsky conjecture”), parametric variation is viewed as simply involving differences in the features of lexical items, with the properties of FLN (e.g. Merge, Agree) being invarian
Microsoft Word - ColorlessSpleenyIdeasAbstractBiolinguisticsWorkshop-1.doc Colorful spleeny ideas speak furiously. Norbert Corver (Utrecht university) 1. Introduction. "Ideation reigns supreme in language, […] volition and emotion come in as distinctly secondary factors." With these words, Edward Sapir (1921:217) claimed that language is primarily a tool for the expression of thought (ideas). The
Berwick_glow-abs 1 Darwinian Linguistics Robert C. Berwick, MIT Famously, in The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin extended his theory of evolution to human language. First, Darwin speculated that language emerged through sexual selection: “some early progenitor of man, probably used his voice largely … in singing”; and “this power would have been especially exerted during the courtship of the sexes”
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GLOW BL Hinzen & Martin FROM INFANT POINTING TO THE PHASE: GRAMMATICALIZING DEICTIC REFERENCE Wolfram Hinzen & Txuss Martín, Department of Philosophy, Durham University Colourless green ideas sleep furiously differs from Furiously sleep ideas green colourless not merely in grammaticality, but also in meaning. No grammatical expression is meaning- less. How we should characterize the kind of meanin
AMDS.GlOW36 Language Faculty, Complexity Reduction and Symmetry Breaking Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Université du Québec à Montréal 1. I assume that the Language Faculty is stable, it does not vary though time and space, and that language development requires experience (Chomsky 1995, 2005, 2011). I develop the view that language evolutionary development is the result of the interaction of the languag
Mafioso Parameters and the Limits of Syntactic Variation (495 words) ON THE ‘MAFIOSO EFFECT’ IN GRAMMAR Theresa Biberauer 1,2 , Ian Roberts 1 & Michelle Sheehan 1 University of Cambridge 1 and Stellenbosch University 2 There is an obvious tension in the Minimalist Program between the desire to posit a minimally genetically specified syntactic component whilst maintaining the empirical insights of
CBL abstract GLOW PROSPECTS FOR A COMPARATIVE BIOLINGUISTICS CEDRIC BOECKX, WOLFRAM HINZEN, ANTONIO BENITEZ-BURRACO Variation thoroughly pervades language. The human faculty for language FL (i.e. our capacity for acquiring and using a language) manifests itself in the form of many different languages, which are in turn slightly diverse across diverse social groups, interactional contexts, geograph
Reducing linguistic variation to Third Factor mechanisms Jordi Fortuny (UB, CLT-UAB, Complex Systems Lab-UPF) & Adriana Fasanella (CLT-UAB) The objective of our study is to develop a model of morphophonological analysis that enables the learner to infer high-order properties of the target language. Our first step is to express in a parametric way part of the mechanism of data analysis used by the
Microsoft Word - SettingGLOWbio.revised Setting the elements of syntactic variation in L2 acquisition: On the English ’s morpheme Elisa Di Domenico Università per Stranieri di Perugia elisa.didomenico@unistrapg.it If parameters are located in the functional lexicon (Borer 1983, Rizzi 2011 a.o.) and the triggers are vocabulary items with their idiosyncratic properties, then acquiring a second langu
Microsoft Word - Irurtzun_named.doc Some Maladaptive Traits of Natural Language Aritz Irurtzun CNRS-IKER One of the biggest issues in current biolinguistics concerns the discussion of the putative adaptive nature of human language. Thus, a range of authors defend the view that language is an eminently adaptive tool that evolved for communication purposes (cf. Pinker and Bloom (1990); Pinker and Ja
