'Grammatici certant. Review article of 'The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'(2002) by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum [PDF]
, 2002 The first large-scale modern grammars of English were Quirk et al.'s A grammar of contemporary English (1972) and A comprehensive grammar of the English language (1985). It has taken 18 years for a major competitor to be published.
Aarts, B.
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Islands in the grammar? Standards of evidence [PDF]
, 2012 When considering how a complex system operates, the observable behavior depends upon both architectural properties of the system and the principles governing its operation.
Casasanto, Laura Staum +4 more
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Specific Exceptions Driving Variation: The Role of Orthography in Modern Hebrew Spirantization [PDF]
, 2015 This paper reports results from a production experiment examining the patterns of variation in the morphophonemic alternations present in spirantization in Modern Hebrew, a phenomenon to which there are many exceptions and diverse levels of variation ...
Müllner, Ivana, Temkin Martinez, Michal
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Cognitive constraints and island effects [PDF]
, 2010 Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for.
Ivan A. Sag,, Philip Hofmeister,
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Numbat: Abolishing Privileges when Licensing New Constituents in Constraint-Oriented Parsing
, 2006 International audienceThe constraint-oriented approaches to language processing step back from the generative theory and make it possible, in theory, to deal with all types of linguistic relationships (e.g.
Prost, Jean-Philippe
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Instrument subjects are agents or causers [PDF]
, 2007 It has often been noticed that one syntactic argument position can be realized by elements which seem to realize different thematic roles. This is notably the case with the external argument position of verbs of change of state which licenses volitional ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, Schäfer, Florian
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Determination: a universal dimension for inter-language comparison : (preliminary version) [PDF]
, 1976 The basic idea I want to develop and to substantiate in this paper consists in replacing – where necessary – the traditional concept of linguistic category or linguistic relation understood as 'things', as reified hypostases, by the more dynamic concept ...
Seiler, Hansjakob
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English coronal stop deletion is categorical not gradient
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaEnglish Coronal Stop Deletion (CSD) has been a subject of debate in terms of whether it is categorical or gradient. Previous studies have overlooked the possibility that tongue tip raising during inaudible coronal stop may come from neutral tongue tip ...
Yunting Gu, Ryan Peters
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The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian foreign language learners [PDF]
, 2014 Ditransitive verbs include a “recipient” and a “theme” argument (in addition to the subject). The choice of putting one argument before the other (i.e., either recipient-theme, or theme-recipient) is associated with multiple discourse-pragmatic factors ...
Baten, Kristof +2 more
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Language typology in the UNITYP model : paper presented for the XIV. International Congress of Linguists, August 1987, Berlin, DDR, Plenary Session on Typology [PDF]
, 1987 The aim of this contribution is to embed the question of an antinomy between "integral" vs. "partial typology", inscribed as the topic of this plenary session, into the comprehensive framework of the dimensional model of the research group on language ...
Seiler, Hansjakob
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