Parallel Architecture: From Problems and Mysteries to Solutions and Explanations
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 843-854, October 2025.Abstract We argue that Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture (PA) is the right way to think about the architecture of the language faculty. The critical property of this architecture is that it allows for genuine explanation by allocating different aspects of linguistic phenomena to appropriate corresponding representations and capacities.
Peter W. Culicover, Giuseppe Varaschin
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Argument structure hierarchies and alternations in causative and double object constructions
GlossaMany varieties of Arabic display a causative construction that adds a causer to the argument structure of the underlying verb. When this verb is transitive, the causative derivative is ditransitive.
Peter Hallman
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Parameter Preservation at the Syntax-PF Interface: The Ba Construction Revisited
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2018 In this paper, I argue for an analysis that treats the ba construction in Chinese as a case of shape preservation-induced movement structure. Specifically, the robust preverbal adverbial and PP expressions and the mandatory ba-DP movement in ditransitive
Shu Chih-hsiang
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Sens et relations de sens dans les grammaires de construction
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2008 Cet article étudie la question du sens et des relations de sens dans le cadre des grammaires de construction (GC), en s’intéressant tout particulièrement à la polysémie des signes grammaticaux.
Jérôme Puckica
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On the perspectivization of a recipient role - cross-linguistic results from a speech production experiment on GET-passives in German, Dutch and Luxembourgish [PDF]
, 2010 The focus of this paper is the perspectivization of thematic roles generally and the recipient role specifically. Whereas perspective is defined here as the representation of something for someone from a given position (Sandig 1996: 37 ...
Lenz, Alexandra N.
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On regression modeling in varieties research
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 57-77, March-June 2025.Abstract One particularly prominent methodological development in linguistics is what has been termed the “quantitative turn”: Not only are more and more studies using statistical tools to explore data and to test hypotheses, the complexity of the statistical methods employed is growing as well.
Stefan Th. Gries
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A COGNITIVE STUDY ON THE DIRECTION OF TRANSFER IN DITRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS ACROSS FOUR LANGUAGES [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivăDitransitive constructions, a linguistic phenomenon universally observed, express the concept of transfer. This study investigates the direction of transfer in ditransitive constructions across Chinese, English, German, and Japanese, aiming to identify
Yawen Zhong
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Passivization of Ditransitive Verbs in Persian Based on Symmetric Move Approach [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānThis research examines the passivization of sentences with ditransitive verbs in Persian, based on the notion of symmetric move. The two objects of these sentences can move to the specifier of the tense head in the passive sentence. However, according to
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Similarity in linguistic categorization: The importance of necessary properties [PDF]
, 2012 Usage-based models of language propose that the acceptability of an element in a constructional slot is determined by its similarity to attested fillers of that slot (Bybee 2010, ch. 4).
Kalyan, Siva
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Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 613-652, December 2024.Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
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