From ilja.serzants at uib.no Mon Apr 9 12:40:31 2012 From: ilja.serzants at uib.no (Ilja Serzants) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:40:31 +0200 Subject: Quiry on the development typology of non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like obliques Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am trying to collect as much as possible data on the evolution (both rise and demise) of non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like obliques for a typological survey. I am just afraid to unwillingly leave out too much out of consideration just by ignorance. I will be extremely grateful for every reference to (or even a PDF of) a case study from any language/language family (except maybe such well-studied ones as Germanic languages), not least synoptic papers. With many thanks in advance, Ilja ______________________________________________ Ilja A. Serzant PhD Research Fellow Sydnesplassen 7 Box 7805, 5020 Bergen Norway http://org.uib.no/iecastp/ilja/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From peter.e.hook at gmail.com Mon Apr 9 14:41:54 2012 From: peter.e.hook at gmail.com (Peter Hook) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:41:54 -0400 Subject: Query on the development typology of non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like obliques Message-ID: Dear Ilja, Modern Indo-Aryan provides a good example of a large family of languages (hundreds of members) which all have "non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like obliques". There is some evidence for their existence in "Classical" [= epic and scholastic] Sanskrit, perhaps as a reflection of the Middle Indic or Dravidian languages which were the mother tongues of Sanskrit writers / speakers of those more recent times. But evidence for the subjecthood of oblique (especially dative-cased) experiencers in their earliest attested ancestor, Vedic Sanskrit, is wanting. You may want to consult the online papers by Hans Hock and the references in those papers to earlier work: http://books.google.com/books?id=XCarNNGmOMYC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=Hock+%22experiencer+subjects%22&source=bl&ots=bL9Y7FTgbo&sig=LkFm8xBw-mC-CgaxA4VyG3sKtJE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veyCT_HLDKnE0QGD_p3XBw&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Hock%20%22experiencer%20subjects%22&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=JuauYrzc0MUC&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq="Possessive+Agents+in+Sanskrit?"&source=bl&ots=emOO2bRUB7&sig=sojPnHnFE_teQwv0FnqyRe8p7c4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5PCCT-a5G4Ho0QGlyuTsBw&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q="Possessive Agents in Sanskrit%3F"&f=fals Peter Hook On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Ilja Serzants wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I am trying to collect as much as possible data on the evolution (both > rise and demise) of non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like > obliques for a typological survey. I am just afraid to unwillingly leave > out too much out of consideration just by ignorance. > > I will be extremely grateful for every reference to (or even a PDF of) a > case study from any language/language family (except maybe such > well-studied ones as Germanic languages), not least synoptic papers. > > With many thanks in advance, > > Ilja > > > ______________________________________________ > Ilja A. Serzant > PhD Research Fellow > Sydnesplassen 7 > Box 7805, 5020 Bergen > Norway > > http://org.uib.no/iecastp/ilja/ > > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Candidates should be able to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in core areas of linguistics, graduate and undergraduate courses in Field Methods and in Language Documentation, as well as other subjects. The appointment is effective July 1, 2012; fall quarter teaching begins September 27, 2012. The course load will consist of 5 courses distributed over three 10-week terms. Ph.D. in linguistics is required at the time of appointment. The position will remain open until filled, but to ensure full consideration, all application materials, including letters of reference, should be received by May 14. Applicants should submit the following to search at linguistics.ucsb.edu in PDF only: letter of application, a one-page research statement, a one-page teaching statement, curriculum vitae, and 2 writing samples. 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In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominals do not need structural Case. The proposed analysis argues that structural Case is licensed by a "Verbal Case" feature on the relevant Case-checking heads, and assumes the Visibility Condition. The present analysis is based on a unique interaction between tense and word order, and on the observation that verbless sentences are finite clauses composed of a topic and a predicate, as well as on the observation that they do not involve licensing of structural Case. Résumé: Cet article vise à expliquer pourquoi les phrases sans verbe en arabe standard n'ont pas de copule. Contrairement à certaines analyses précédentes qui attribuaient l'absence de copule à un quelconque défaut du temps présent, je soutiens que la phrase sans verbe ne requiert pas de copule parce ses substantifs n'ont pas besoin de cas structural. Il est proposé que le cas structural est permis par un trait de «Cas Verbal» porté par les têtes pertinentes pour la vérification de cas, en assumant la Condition de Visibilité. La présente analyse est fondée sur une interaction unique entre le temps et l'ordre des mots, et sur la constatation que les phrases sans verbe sont des propositions finies, composées d'un topique et d'un prédicat, et que celles-ci n'impliquent pas de cas structural. Tense and control interpretations in gerund-participle and to infinitive complement constructions with verbs of risk Patrick Duffley, Maryse Arseneau Abstract: This study investigates temporal and control interpretations with verbs of risk followed by non-finite complements in English. It addresses two questions: Why does the gerund-participle show variation in the temporal relation between the event it denotes and that of the main verb whereas the to-infinitive manifests a constant temporal relation? Why does the gerund-participle construction allow variation in control while the to-infinitive shows constant subject control readings? The study is based on a corpus of 1345 attested uses. The explanation is framed in a natural-language semantics involving the meanings of the gerund-participle, the infinitive, the preposition to, and the meaning-relation between the matrix and its complement. Temporal and control interpretations are shown to arise as implications grounded in the semantic content of what is linguistically expressed. It is argued that the capacity of a natural-language semantic approach to account for the data obviates the need to have recourse to purely syntactic operations to account for control. Résumé: Cette étude porte sur les interprétations temporelles et de contrôle avec des verbes exprimant la notion de risque suivis par des compléments infinitifs ou gérondifs en anglais. Deux questions y sont abordées : Pourquoi le gérondif montre-il une variation dans la relation temporelle entre l'événement qu'il dénote et celui du verbe de la principale, tandis que l'infinitif manifeste une relation temporelle constante? Pourquoi la construction gérondive est-elle caractérisée par une variation de contrôle alors que l'infinitif produit des lectures constantes de contrôle par le sujet? Un corpus de 1345 exemples attestés est examiné. L'explication est formulée en termes d'une sémantique de langage naturel fondée sur les signifiés linguistiques du gérondif, de l'infinitif, de la préposition to et le rapport sémantique entre le verbe de la principale et son complément. Il est démontré que les interprétations temporelles et de contrôle sont des implications fondées sur le contenu sémantique de ce qui est exprimé linguistiquement. On soutient que la capacité d'une sémantique de langage naturel de rendre compte des données élimine le besoin d'avoir recours à des opérations purement syntaxiques pour expliquer le phénomène du contrôle. 'Imala and rounding in a rural Syrian variety: Morphophonological and lexical conditioning Rania Habib Abstract: This study investigates two concurrent phenomena-'imala and rounding-in the Arabic variety spoken in the Syrian village of Oyoun Al-Wadi. 'Imala refers to the use of [e] and [e:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively; rounding refers to the use of [o] and [o:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively. The use of two different vowels for each urban vowel is explained morphophonologically. The study economically proposes two phonological rules to account for 'imala and rounding and shows that only one rule can apply per word, to the final syllable of a word. In light of Lexical Phonology theory, certain morphological patterns and suffixes explain the presence of 'imala in initial syllables and in environments that induce rounding. That is, it is part of the lexical representation of a morphological pattern or suffix in the lexicon. Hence, 'imala could occur in the initial syllable as part of the morphological pattern, and rounding could occur in the final syllable of the same word as a result of a post-lexical phonological rule. Résumé: Cette étude examine deux phénomènes concurrents-le 'imala et l'arrondissement- dans la variété d'arabe parlée au village syrien d'Oyoun Al-Wadi. Le 'imala est l'utilisation de [e] et [e:] à la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement; l'arrondissement est l'emploi de [o] et [o:] à la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement. L'utilisation de deux voyelles différentes pour chaque voyelle urbaine est expliquée morpho-phonologiquement, avec quelques mots conditionnés au niveau du lexique. L'étude propose deux règles phonologiques économiques pour expliquer le 'imala et l'arrondissement et montre qu'une seule règle s'applique par mot, toujours à la dernière syllabe d'unmot. En tenant compte de la théorie de la phonologie lexicale, certains modèles morphologiques et certains suffixes expliquent la présence du 'imala dans les syllabes initiales et dans des environnements causant l'arrondissement. Autrement dit, le 'imala fait partie de la représentation lexicale d'un modèle morphologique ou d'un suffixe du lexique. Ainsi, le 'imala pourrait se produire à la syllabe initiale comme une partie du modèle morphologique et l'arrondissement pourrait se produire à la syllabe finale du même mot comme résultat d'une règle phonologique postlexicale. Affectees in subject position and applicative theory Kyumin Kim Abstract: The aim of this article is twofold. First, based on passives in Japanese and Korean, it expands the domain of the applicative head (Appl) to include an argument in the structural subject position. These languages provide evidence for a new type of Appl, peripheral Appl, distinct from the well-known high Appl in Bantu: unlike high Appl, peripheral Appl is the highest argument-introducing head under T, and can merge above VoiceP. The recognition of peripheralAppl makes it possible to account for the cross-linguistic positional variation among affectee arguments. Second, the article provides articulated clause structures for passives in Japanese and Korean in terms of Appl. The applicative account proves to be successful in providing a unified account of Japanese possessive and non-possessive passives, and of Korean possessive passives and causatives. Résumé: L'objectif de cet article est double. D'abord, sur la base des passifs en japonais et en coréen, il étend le domaine de la tête applicative (Appl) pour inclure un argument en position structurale sujet. Ces langues apportent des arguments pour un nouveau type d'Appl, soit Appl périphérique, qui est distinct de la tête Appl plus haut bien connu dans les langues bantoues : à la différence du haut Appl, l'Appl périphérique est la tête la plus élevée qui introduit un argument sous T, et peut fusionner au-dessus du Groupe Voix. La reconnaissance de l'Appl périphérique permet d'expliquer la variation positionnelle interlinguale entre des arguments appliqués. En second lieu, cet article fournit des structures propositionnelles pour les passifs en japonais et en coréen en termes d'Appl. Cette approche applicative réussit à fournir une explication unifiée des passifs possessifs et non possessifs en japonais, et de passifs possessifs et causatifs en coréen. Anticipation labiale et perception visuelle Johanna-Pascale Roy Résumé: L'objectif principal de cet article est de décrire le processus de perception visuelle anticipée du geste d'arrondissement dans des séquences [iC(CCCC)y], en prenant en compte l'ensemble des caractéristiques de leur production (configurations articulatoires, données temporelles et événements cinématiques). Les productions de deux locuteurs francophones ont été analysées afin d'obtenir les données nécessaires à l'interprétation des résultats d'un test de perception. Ce dernier est constitué de séquences vidéo tronquées, suivant le paradigme du gating. Nos résultats indiquent que la portion perceptivement efficace du geste d'arrondissement prend généralement naissance lorsqu'un pic de vitesse important est observé. À l'inverse, si la séquence ne comporte pas de pic de vitesse proéminent, la voyelle arrondie ne pourra être reconnue que lorsque les configurations labiales seront plus proches de la cible articulatoire. Nos résultats pourront être interprétés à la lumière de modèles généraux de perception du mouvement, ici le momentum représentationnel. Abstract: The main aim of this article is to describe the visual perception process of anticipatory rounding gestures in [iC(CCCC)y] sequences by considering the characteristics that contribute to their production (articulatory configurations, temporal data, and kinematic events). Productions of two French speakers were analyzed to obtain the data needed to interpret the results of a perception test composed of truncated visual sequences using the gating paradigm. The results indicate that the perceptually effective portion of the gesture usually begins when a significant velocity peak is observed. In contrast, if the sequence has no prominent velocity peak, the rounded vowel can be recognized only when the labial configurations are closer to the articulatory target. The results can be interpreted on the basis of general models for movement perception, in this case representational momentum. Wh-questions in child bilingual acquisition of French: Derivational complexity and cross-linguistic influence Nelleke Strik Abstract: This study investigates the development of wh-questions in French in a group of bilingual French-Dutch children. Fifteen children (aged 4 to 8, mean age 6;03, first exposure to French under age 4 for most of the children) participated in an elicited production task. Their results were compared to those of 4-year-old and 6-year-old monolingual children from a previous study. In order to examine possible influence from Dutch, two main hypotheses with contrasting predictions are proposed: structural overlap and derivational complexity. The results show that the bilingual children exhibited the same developmental course for wh-questions as their monolingual peers. The majority of responses involved wh-fronting without inversion, whereas wh-fronting with inversion, the only possible structure in Dutch, was not frequent. Therefore, the results do not provide clear evidence for influence from Dutch. Instead, they confirm that derivational complexity constrains the development of wh-questions in French. Résumé: Cette étude porte sur les questions wh en français chez des enfants bilingues français-néerlandais. Quinze enfants (âgés de 4 à 8 ans, âge moyen 6;03, première exposition au français en dessous de 4 ans pour la majorité) ont participé à une tâche de production induite. Leurs résultats ont été comparés à ceux des enfants monolingues de 4 ans et de 6 ans d'une étude précédente. Pour examiner l'influence possible du néerlandais, deux hypothèses principales sont proposées : le chevauchement structural et la complexité dérivationnelle. Les résultats montrent un développement similaire à celui des enfants monolingues. Les questions à wh antéposé sans inversion sont les plus fréquentes, alors que les questions à wh antéposé avec inversion, la seule structure possible en néerlandais, sont plus rares. Par conséquent, les résultats ne contiennent pas de preuve évidente d'influence du néerlandais. En revanche, ils confirment que la complexité dérivationnelle contraint le développement des questions wh en français. 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There is some evidence for their existence in "Classical" [= epic and scholastic] Sanskrit, perhaps as a reflection of the Middle Indic or Dravidian languages which were the mother tongues of Sanskrit writers / speakers of those more recent times. But evidence for the subjecthood of oblique (especially dative-cased) experiencers in their earliest attested ancestor, Vedic Sanskrit, is wanting. You may want to consult the online papers by Hans Hock and the references in those papers to earlier work: http://books.google.com/books?id=XCarNNGmOMYC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=Hock+%22experiencer+subjects%22&source=bl&ots=bL9Y7FTgbo&sig=LkFm8xBw-mC-CgaxA4VyG3sKtJE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veyCT_HLDKnE0QGD_p3XBw&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Hock%20%22experiencer%20subjects%22&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=JuauYrzc0MUC&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq="Possessive+Agents+in+Sanskrit?"&source=bl&ots=emOO2bRUB7&sig=sojPnHnFE_teQwv0FnqyRe8p7c4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5PCCT-a5G4Ho0QGlyuTsBw&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q="Possessive Agents in Sanskrit%3F"&f=fals Peter Hook On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Ilja Serzants wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I am trying to collect as much as possible data on the evolution (both > rise and demise) of non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like > obliques for a typological survey. 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Candidates should be able to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in core areas of linguistics, graduate and undergraduate courses in Field Methods and in Language Documentation, as well as other subjects. The appointment is effective July 1, 2012; fall quarter teaching begins September 27, 2012. The course load will consist of 5 courses distributed over three 10-week terms. Ph.D. in linguistics is required at the time of appointment. The position will remain open until filled, but to ensure full consideration, all application materials, including letters of reference, should be received by May 14. Applicants should submit the following to search at linguistics.ucsb.edu in PDF only: letter of application, a one-page research statement, a one-page teaching statement, curriculum vitae, and 2 writing samples. Applicants should request that 3 academic letters of reference, at least one of which addresses teaching proficiency, be sent directly to search at linguistics.ucsb.edu by the May 14 deadline. Applicants should also complete the supplemental online data form at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/search/coversheet.html. Fax and mail applications not accepted. Inquiries may be addressed to the Search Committee at search at linguistics.ucsb.edu. Interviews will be conducted via Skype video conference call. The UCSB Department of Linguistics has a genuine commitment to diversity and is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. UCSB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UCSB job.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 17188 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Apr 11 16:15:48 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:15:48 +0000 Subject: New Issue Alert - Canadian Journal of Linguistics Message-ID: Now available on Project MUSE The Canadian Journal of Linguistics Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2012 This issue contains: Why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic are verbless Rashid Al-balushi Abstract: This article aims to account for why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic lack a copular verb. In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominals do not need structural Case. The proposed analysis argues that structural Case is licensed by a "Verbal Case" feature on the relevant Case-checking heads, and assumes the Visibility Condition. The present analysis is based on a unique interaction between tense and word order, and on the observation that verbless sentences are finite clauses composed of a topic and a predicate, as well as on the observation that they do not involve licensing of structural Case. R?sum?: Cet article vise ? expliquer pourquoi les phrases sans verbe en arabe standard n'ont pas de copule. Contrairement ? certaines analyses pr?c?dentes qui attribuaient l'absence de copule ? un quelconque d?faut du temps pr?sent, je soutiens que la phrase sans verbe ne requiert pas de copule parce ses substantifs n'ont pas besoin de cas structural. Il est propos? que le cas structural est permis par un trait de ?Cas Verbal? port? par les t?tes pertinentes pour la v?rification de cas, en assumant la Condition de Visibilit?. La pr?sente analyse est fond?e sur une interaction unique entre le temps et l'ordre des mots, et sur la constatation que les phrases sans verbe sont des propositions finies, compos?es d'un topique et d'un pr?dicat, et que celles-ci n'impliquent pas de cas structural. Tense and control interpretations in gerund-participle and to infinitive complement constructions with verbs of risk Patrick Duffley, Maryse Arseneau Abstract: This study investigates temporal and control interpretations with verbs of risk followed by non-finite complements in English. It addresses two questions: Why does the gerund-participle show variation in the temporal relation between the event it denotes and that of the main verb whereas the to-infinitive manifests a constant temporal relation? Why does the gerund-participle construction allow variation in control while the to-infinitive shows constant subject control readings? The study is based on a corpus of 1345 attested uses. The explanation is framed in a natural-language semantics involving the meanings of the gerund-participle, the infinitive, the preposition to, and the meaning-relation between the matrix and its complement. Temporal and control interpretations are shown to arise as implications grounded in the semantic content of what is linguistically expressed. It is argued that the capacity of a natural-language semantic approach to account for the data obviates the need to have recourse to purely syntactic operations to account for control. R?sum?: Cette ?tude porte sur les interpr?tations temporelles et de contr?le avec des verbes exprimant la notion de risque suivis par des compl?ments infinitifs ou g?rondifs en anglais. Deux questions y sont abord?es : Pourquoi le g?rondif montre-il une variation dans la relation temporelle entre l'?v?nement qu'il d?note et celui du verbe de la principale, tandis que l'infinitif manifeste une relation temporelle constante? Pourquoi la construction g?rondive est-elle caract?ris?e par une variation de contr?le alors que l'infinitif produit des lectures constantes de contr?le par le sujet? Un corpus de 1345 exemples attest?s est examin?. L'explication est formul?e en termes d'une s?mantique de langage naturel fond?e sur les signifi?s linguistiques du g?rondif, de l'infinitif, de la pr?position to et le rapport s?mantique entre le verbe de la principale et son compl?ment. Il est d?montr? que les interpr?tations temporelles et de contr?le sont des implications fond?es sur le contenu s?mantique de ce qui est exprim? linguistiquement. On soutient que la capacit? d'une s?mantique de langage naturel de rendre compte des donn?es ?limine le besoin d'avoir recours ? des op?rations purement syntaxiques pour expliquer le ph?nom?ne du contr?le. 'Imala and rounding in a rural Syrian variety: Morphophonological and lexical conditioning Rania Habib Abstract: This study investigates two concurrent phenomena-'imala and rounding-in the Arabic variety spoken in the Syrian village of Oyoun Al-Wadi. 'Imala refers to the use of [e] and [e:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively; rounding refers to the use of [o] and [o:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively. The use of two different vowels for each urban vowel is explained morphophonologically. The study economically proposes two phonological rules to account for 'imala and rounding and shows that only one rule can apply per word, to the final syllable of a word. In light of Lexical Phonology theory, certain morphological patterns and suffixes explain the presence of 'imala in initial syllables and in environments that induce rounding. That is, it is part of the lexical representation of a morphological pattern or suffix in the lexicon. Hence, 'imala could occur in the initial syllable as part of the morphological pattern, and rounding could occur in the final syllable of the same word as a result of a post-lexical phonological rule. R?sum?: Cette ?tude examine deux ph?nom?nes concurrents-le 'imala et l'arrondissement- dans la vari?t? d'arabe parl?e au village syrien d'Oyoun Al-Wadi. Le 'imala est l'utilisation de [e] et [e:] ? la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement; l'arrondissement est l'emploi de [o] et [o:] ? la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement. L'utilisation de deux voyelles diff?rentes pour chaque voyelle urbaine est expliqu?e morpho-phonologiquement, avec quelques mots conditionn?s au niveau du lexique. L'?tude propose deux r?gles phonologiques ?conomiques pour expliquer le 'imala et l'arrondissement et montre qu'une seule r?gle s'applique par mot, toujours ? la derni?re syllabe d'unmot. En tenant compte de la th?orie de la phonologie lexicale, certains mod?les morphologiques et certains suffixes expliquent la pr?sence du 'imala dans les syllabes initiales et dans des environnements causant l'arrondissement. Autrement dit, le 'imala fait partie de la repr?sentation lexicale d'un mod?le morphologique ou d'un suffixe du lexique. Ainsi, le 'imala pourrait se produire ? la syllabe initiale comme une partie du mod?le morphologique et l'arrondissement pourrait se produire ? la syllabe finale du m?me mot comme r?sultat d'une r?gle phonologique postlexicale. Affectees in subject position and applicative theory Kyumin Kim Abstract: The aim of this article is twofold. First, based on passives in Japanese and Korean, it expands the domain of the applicative head (Appl) to include an argument in the structural subject position. These languages provide evidence for a new type of Appl, peripheral Appl, distinct from the well-known high Appl in Bantu: unlike high Appl, peripheral Appl is the highest argument-introducing head under T, and can merge above VoiceP. The recognition of peripheralAppl makes it possible to account for the cross-linguistic positional variation among affectee arguments. Second, the article provides articulated clause structures for passives in Japanese and Korean in terms of Appl. The applicative account proves to be successful in providing a unified account of Japanese possessive and non-possessive passives, and of Korean possessive passives and causatives. R?sum?: L'objectif de cet article est double. D'abord, sur la base des passifs en japonais et en cor?en, il ?tend le domaine de la t?te applicative (Appl) pour inclure un argument en position structurale sujet. Ces langues apportent des arguments pour un nouveau type d'Appl, soit Appl p?riph?rique, qui est distinct de la t?te Appl plus haut bien connu dans les langues bantoues : ? la diff?rence du haut Appl, l'Appl p?riph?rique est la t?te la plus ?lev?e qui introduit un argument sous T, et peut fusionner au-dessus du Groupe Voix. La reconnaissance de l'Appl p?riph?rique permet d'expliquer la variation positionnelle interlinguale entre des arguments appliqu?s. En second lieu, cet article fournit des structures propositionnelles pour les passifs en japonais et en cor?en en termes d'Appl. Cette approche applicative r?ussit ? fournir une explication unifi?e des passifs possessifs et non possessifs en japonais, et de passifs possessifs et causatifs en cor?en. Anticipation labiale et perception visuelle Johanna-Pascale Roy R?sum?: L'objectif principal de cet article est de d?crire le processus de perception visuelle anticip?e du geste d'arrondissement dans des s?quences [iC(CCCC)y], en prenant en compte l'ensemble des caract?ristiques de leur production (configurations articulatoires, donn?es temporelles et ?v?nements cin?matiques). Les productions de deux locuteurs francophones ont ?t? analys?es afin d'obtenir les donn?es n?cessaires ? l'interpr?tation des r?sultats d'un test de perception. Ce dernier est constitu? de s?quences vid?o tronqu?es, suivant le paradigme du gating. Nos r?sultats indiquent que la portion perceptivement efficace du geste d'arrondissement prend g?n?ralement naissance lorsqu'un pic de vitesse important est observ?. ? l'inverse, si la s?quence ne comporte pas de pic de vitesse pro?minent, la voyelle arrondie ne pourra ?tre reconnue que lorsque les configurations labiales seront plus proches de la cible articulatoire. Nos r?sultats pourront ?tre interpr?t?s ? la lumi?re de mod?les g?n?raux de perception du mouvement, ici le momentum repr?sentationnel. Abstract: The main aim of this article is to describe the visual perception process of anticipatory rounding gestures in [iC(CCCC)y] sequences by considering the characteristics that contribute to their production (articulatory configurations, temporal data, and kinematic events). Productions of two French speakers were analyzed to obtain the data needed to interpret the results of a perception test composed of truncated visual sequences using the gating paradigm. The results indicate that the perceptually effective portion of the gesture usually begins when a significant velocity peak is observed. In contrast, if the sequence has no prominent velocity peak, the rounded vowel can be recognized only when the labial configurations are closer to the articulatory target. The results can be interpreted on the basis of general models for movement perception, in this case representational momentum. Wh-questions in child bilingual acquisition of French: Derivational complexity and cross-linguistic influence Nelleke Strik Abstract: This study investigates the development of wh-questions in French in a group of bilingual French-Dutch children. Fifteen children (aged 4 to 8, mean age 6;03, first exposure to French under age 4 for most of the children) participated in an elicited production task. Their results were compared to those of 4-year-old and 6-year-old monolingual children from a previous study. In order to examine possible influence from Dutch, two main hypotheses with contrasting predictions are proposed: structural overlap and derivational complexity. The results show that the bilingual children exhibited the same developmental course for wh-questions as their monolingual peers. The majority of responses involved wh-fronting without inversion, whereas wh-fronting with inversion, the only possible structure in Dutch, was not frequent. Therefore, the results do not provide clear evidence for influence from Dutch. Instead, they confirm that derivational complexity constrains the development of wh-questions in French. R?sum?: Cette ?tude porte sur les questions wh en fran?ais chez des enfants bilingues fran?ais-n?erlandais. Quinze enfants (?g?s de 4 ? 8 ans, ?ge moyen 6;03, premi?re exposition au fran?ais en dessous de 4 ans pour la majorit?) ont particip? ? une t?che de production induite. Leurs r?sultats ont ?t? compar?s ? ceux des enfants monolingues de 4 ans et de 6 ans d'une ?tude pr?c?dente. Pour examiner l'influence possible du n?erlandais, deux hypoth?ses principales sont propos?es : le chevauchement structural et la complexit? d?rivationnelle. Les r?sultats montrent un d?veloppement similaire ? celui des enfants monolingues. Les questions ? wh ant?pos? sans inversion sont les plus fr?quentes, alors que les questions ? wh ant?pos? avec inversion, la seule structure possible en n?erlandais, sont plus rares. Par cons?quent, les r?sultats ne contiennent pas de preuve ?vidente d'influence du n?erlandais. En revanche, ils confirment que la complexit? d?rivationnelle contraint le d?veloppement des questions wh en fran?ais. 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TIE5 - to be hosted by the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford - is now welcoming abstracts for papers and posters dealing on any topic within these areas. Linguistic subfields: Phonology, Phonetics, Typology, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics Accommodation: Accommodation will be available in Somerville College, Oxford. The conference website will provide more details in due course. Conference website: http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/tie/ Abstract submission deadline: May 7, 2012 Abstract Submission: ? Abstract submission will be through the LinguistList?s Easy Abstract System (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/TIE5) ? Abstracts should be submitted in pdf or Word (.doc) formats ? Abstracts should not be longer than one A4 page for text and examples with 2 cm or equivalent margins, single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12pt, and with normal character spacing. One extra page solely for references may also be submitted. ? Your abstract should be anonymous. Please do not use your name in the file name of your abstract. You will be asked to submit a separate version with your name and affiliation if your abstract is selected for presentation. ? If using phonetic fonts in your abstract, please submit a pdf file or use Doulous SIL font. ? Abstracts may be submitted either for a ?talk/poster?, or as a ?poster only? - please indicate your preference at the end of the abstract. ? Authors may submit a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract, OR two co-authored abstracts. Program finalisation: June 15, 2012 Notification of abstract acceptance: June 1, 2012 Invited Speakers: Laura Downing (ZAS, Berlin) Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen & Queen Mary UL) & J?rg Peters (Universit?t Oldenburg) Pilar Prieto (Universitat Pampeu Fabra) Tomas Riad (Stockholms Universitet) Elisabeth Selkirk (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Organisers: Aditi Lahiri & Allison Wetterlin Organising committee: Sandra Kotzor, Elinor Payne, Stephen Parkinson, Adam Roberts, Philip Roberts, Rosalind Temple Contact Information: Kate.Dobson at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l