From natacha at ucla.edu Thu Jul 19 22:46:36 2012 From: natacha at ucla.edu (natacha at ucla.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:46:36 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Mesoamerican Linguistics In-Reply-To: <002c01cc9319$4e30aca0$ea9205e0$@Janse@UGent.be> Message-ID: We invite abstracts for papers and panels from all areas related to the languages of Mesoamerica, including both the indigenous languages and Mesoamerican Spanish, to be submitted to the International Conference on Mesoamerican Linguistics, to be held at California State University, Fullerton on February 22-23, 2013. Submission guidelines: 1. Papers may be delivered in English or Spanish. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one jointly authored. Presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. 2. The abstract must be no more than one page in length, single-spaced in 12 point font. 3. To preserve anonymity during the review process, authors should not include their names or otherwise reveal their identities anywhere in the abstract. 4. Please specify the title of the paper, area of research, name, academic affiliation and email in the accompanying email. 5. Please send submissions as a Word or PDF file on http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/1stmalingconf. 6. Questions about the conference may be addressed to 1stmesoamlingconf at gmail.com. Deadline for panel proposals: 30 September 2012 Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2012 Notification: 1 November 2012 Conference organizers: Natalie Operstein (noperstein at fullerton.edu) and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (asonnen at exchange.calstatela.edu). * * * Se invitan propuestas de ponencias individuales y paneles preorganizados en todas las áreas relacionadas con las lenguas mesoamericanas, incluyendo las lenguas indígenas y el español mesoamericano, para El Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Mesoamericana, que se realizará los días 22 y 23 de febrero de 2013 en la Universidad Estatal de California en Fullerton. Guía para el envío de resúmenes: 1. Las ponencias podrán presentarse en inglés o español. Se aceptará un máximo de un resumen por autor individual o dos en coautoría. El tiempo para la presentación de las ponencias será de 20 minutos, con un espacio de 10 minutos para discusión. 2. El resumen deberá tener una extensión máxima de una página, a interlineado sencillo con letra de 12 puntos. 3. Para mantener el anonimato del arbitraje, el nombre del autor o cualquier otra información que podría señalar la identidad del autor no debe aparecer en el resumen. 4. Por favor, incluya la siguiente información en el cuerpo de su mensaje electrónico: el título del trabajo, el área de investigación, el nombre completo del autor o autores, la institución de adscripción y el correo electrónico. 5. Favor de enviar su resumen en formato Microsoft Word o PDF a http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/1stmalingconf. 6. Se puede dirigir preguntas acerca del congreso a 1stmesoamlingconf at gmail.com. Fechas importantes: Cierre de convocatoria para las mesas de ponencias: 30 de septiembre de 2012 Cierre de convocatoria para resúmenes: 15 de octubre de 2012 Notificación del resultado de arbitraje: 1 de noviembre de 2012 Organizadores: Natalie Operstein (noperstein at fullerton.edu) y Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (asonnen at exchange.calstatela.edu). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Read more... pp. 173-176 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0031 Articles Forms of predication in Sakha (Turkic): Will the true lexical predicates please stand up? Mark C. Baker, Nadezda Vinokurova Abstract: The Turkic language Sakha (Yakut) uses a copular verb with predicate nominals but not with predicate adjectives or verbs in certain environments, including relative clauses, nominalized clauses, and complements to nouns. Previous work takes this as evidence that adjectives but not nouns are true one-place predicates. However, unaccusativity diagnostics show that adjectives pattern with nouns in Sakha, as in other languages: neither is inherently predicative without a predicative functional head. The need for a copula with predicate nominals in certain environments can be explained using Richards's distinctiveness condition. Relative clauses, noun complements, and nominalization structures all bring a nominal head in close contact with the predicate. If the predicate itself is nominal, a verbal copula must intervene to separate the predicate from the embedding head of the same category. Résumé: La langue turcique Sakha (Yakut) emploie une copule avec les noms prédicatifs mais pas avec les adjectifs prédicatifs ou les verbes dans les contextes tels que les subordonnées relatives ou substantivées et les compléments de noms. Des études précédentes concluent par conséquent que contrairement aux substantifs, les adjectifs sont de vrais prédicats monovalents. Cependant, certains tests d'inaccusativité démontrent qu'en Sakha, les adjectifs se comportent comme les noms, comme dans les autres langues : ni l'adjectif ni le nom n'est prédicatif sans une tête fonctionnelle prédicative. La nécessité d'une copule dans certains contextes peut s'expliquer par la condition de caractère distinct de Richards. Les subordonnées relatives, les compléments de nom et les nominalisations ont en commun le rapprochement d'une tête nominale et d'un prédicat. Si le prédicat est nominal, une copule intervient pour séparer le prédicat de la tête enchâssée de la même catégorie. pp. 177-207 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0032 Specification, equation, and agreement in copular sentences Caroline Heycock Abstract: This article presents new data from a number of Germanic languages concerning the agreement patterns found in copular clauses that contain two nominals; in both clauses with specificational readings (such as The problem is your parents) and those with what are here termed readings of assumed identity (such as If I were you or In my dream I was you). It is argued that the specificational sentences involve asymmetric equative structures where one nominal is interpreted as in a concealed question, and that the cross-linguistic differences in agreement patterns found in the languages considered follow from the copula lexicalizing either Tense or a lower head. Résumé: Cet article présente de nouvelles données tirées de certaines langues germaniques et qui illustrent les schémas d'accord dans les propositions copulatives avec deux substantifs ; les propositions à lecture spécificationnelle (telles que The problem is your parents) ainsi que celles à «lecture d'identité empruntée» (telle que If I were you ou In my dream I was you). L'article propose que les phrases spécificationnelles comprennent des structures équatives asymétriques où un substantif est interprété exactement comme dans le contexte d'une question furtive, et que les différences interlinguistiques dans les schémas d'accord relevés dans les langues sous considération découlent de la lexicalisation par la copule de la tête tensée T0 ou d'une tête plus basse dans la structure. pp. 209-240 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0033 On the status of inversion in an inverse language Diane Massam Abstract: This article addresses inversion in an inverse (VSO) language, Niuean, focusing on two issues. First, it has been proposed that in certain types of copular sentences, such as pseudo-cleft constructions (PCCs), the predicate rather than the subject may move into the specifier position of TP. This raises the question of PCCs in a language in which the predicate normally moves there. Such sentences might exhibit their normal inverse order or the inverse of this. The second issue is what constitutes the predicate in a PCC. The headless relative (and not the DP) is usually analyzed as the predicate because, in standard theories of predication, a referential nominal cannot be a predicate. However, in Niuean PCCs, the DP is usually analyzed as the predicate. I propose that it is in fact a reduced headless relative with a null predicate. It becomes clear that there is no special copular inversion: the inversion requirement is taken care of by the general predicate-fronting process. The analysis thus sheds new light on the general nature of copular inversion and allows Niuean PCCs to fall into the standard view of predication theory. Résumé: Cet article étudie l'inversion dans une langue inverse (VSO), le niuéen, et se concentre sur deux questions. D'abord, il a été proposé que dans certains types de phrases à copule, telles que les pseudo-clivées (CPC), il est possible qu'un prédicat se déplace dans le spécifieur du Syntagme Temps plutôt que le sujet. Cela soulève la question des CPC dans une langue où le prédicat se déplace par défaut dans la position sujet. De telles phrases pourraient manifester leur ordre inverse habituel ou l'inverse de celui-ci. La deuxième question porte sur le statut du prédicat dans une CPC. La relative substantive (et non le SD) est habituellement identifiée comme le prédicat parce que, selon les théories conventionnelles de la prédication, un nom référentiel ne peut être un prédicat. Cependant, dans les CPC en niuéen, le SD est habituellement analysé comme le prédicat. Dans cet article, je propose qu'il est en fait une relative substantive réduite avec un prédicat nul. Il n'y a par conséquent aucune inversion copulative spéciale : l'exigence d'inversion est satisfaite par la nature générale du processus d'antéposition du prédicat. Cette analyse nous permet donc de mieux comprendre la nature générale de l'inversion copulative et situe les CPC en niuéen dans la perspective standard de la théorie de la prédication. pp. 241-260 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0027 Generic predicates and interest-relativity Sally McConnell-Ginet Abstract: "Simple generics" with bare plural subjects (e.g., dogs bark) predicate of a kind a property that the kind "inherits" from its individual members. But what does that inheritance amount to if it is not, like most dogs bark, based on how many individuals have the property. My conclusion: there is no determinate account of which (fundamentally individual-level) properties can be truly predicated of a kind: generics are not quantificational, and language users' interests guide judgments on their truthconditions. At the same time, even "canonical" predications of ordinary predicates of ordinary individuals are not so straightforward as they might appear. Generic claims about social groups show the indeterminacy of truth conditions for simple generics and the relation to stereotypes and sometimes conflicting interests. Résumé: Les génériques simples, tels que les noms nus sujets au pluriel (e.g., dogs bark), mettent en relation de prédication une espèce et une propriété que l'espèce «hérite» de ses membres individuels. Mais à quoi équivaut cet «héritage» s'il n'est pas (comme dans most dogs bark) fondé sur le nombre d'individus qui possèdent cette propriété? Ma conclusion : il n'y a pas d'analyse définitive des diverses propriétés (essentiellement de niveau individuel (I-level)) qui peuvent entrer en relation de prédication avec une espèce : les phrases génériques ne sont pas quantificationnelles et les intérêts des locuteurs guident les jugements des conditions de vérité. En outre, même la prédication «canonique» des prédicats ordinaires et des individus ordinaires n'est pas si simple. Les affirmations génériques à propos des groupes sociaux montrent la nature indéterminée des conditions de vérité pour les génériques simples, ainsi que le rapport avec les stéréotypes et parfois avec des intérêts conflictuels. pp. 261-287 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0028 Saying and doing: The role of semantics in the use of generic sentences Bernhard Nickel Abstract: This article discusses semantic theories of generic sentences that seek to tie their meaning closely to their use, rather than giving more traditional truth-conditional semantic treatments. It focuses on McConnell-Ginet's recent work and defends truth-conditional approaches combined with a traditional semantics-pragmatics distinction. Résumé: Cet article porte sur les phrases génériques et sur les analyses sémantiques qui tentent de lier l'interprétation de ces phrases à leur usage plutôt qu'en terme de conditions de vérité comme il est de mise dans les analyses traditionnelles. L'article vise en particulier le travail récent de McConnell-Ginet et défend les approches traditionnelles en termes de conditions de vérité tout en défendant la distinction ordinaire entre la sémantique et la pragmatique. pp. 289-302 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0029 Where does predication come from? David Gil Abstract: Predication is widely considered to be a fundamental feature of human language and conceptual structure. This article offers a reassessment of the central role that predication plays within current theories of grammar, by calling into question the universality of predication and its nature as a primitive, irreducible notion. It proposes a new definition of predicate, as a complex emergent entity derived from the alignment of two independent elements of conceptual structure: thematic role assignment and headedness. Résumé: Selon une longue tradition, la prédication est un trait fondamental des langues naturelles et de la structure conceptuelle. Cet article réexamine le rôle central que la prédication occupe dans les théories linguistiques actuelles, et remet en question le caractère universel de la prédication et son statut de primitif irréductible. Il propose une nouvelle définition de «prédicat», soit une entité complexe émergente qui découle de l'alignement de deux éléments de la structure conceptuelle indépendants l'un de l'autre : l'attribution des rôles thématiques et le statut de tête. pp. 303-333 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0030 The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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Please follow these links : General presentation : http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=108981 Programm : http://linguistlist.org/callconf/program-action.cfm?ConfID=108981 Third call for papers : http://linguistlist.org/callconf/call-action.cfm?ConfID=108981 Best regards Fabienne Reboul -- ----- Claire Bowern Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Yale University 370 Temple St New Haven, CT 06511 North American Dialects survey: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects/ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From natacha at ucla.edu Thu Jul 19 22:46:36 2012 From: natacha at ucla.edu (natacha at ucla.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:46:36 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Mesoamerican Linguistics In-Reply-To: <002c01cc9319$4e30aca0$ea9205e0$@Janse@UGent.be> Message-ID: We invite abstracts for papers and panels from all areas related to the languages of Mesoamerica, including both the indigenous languages and Mesoamerican Spanish, to be submitted to the International Conference on Mesoamerican Linguistics, to be held at California State University, Fullerton on February 22-23, 2013. Submission guidelines: 1. Papers may be delivered in English or Spanish. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one jointly authored. Presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. 2. The abstract must be no more than one page in length, single-spaced in 12 point font. 3. To preserve anonymity during the review process, authors should not include their names or otherwise reveal their identities anywhere in the abstract. 4. Please specify the title of the paper, area of research, name, academic affiliation and email in the accompanying email. 5. Please send submissions as a Word or PDF file on http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/1stmalingconf. 6. Questions about the conference may be addressed to 1stmesoamlingconf at gmail.com. Deadline for panel proposals: 30 September 2012 Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2012 Notification: 1 November 2012 Conference organizers: Natalie Operstein (noperstein at fullerton.edu) and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (asonnen at exchange.calstatela.edu). * * * Se invitan propuestas de ponencias individuales y paneles preorganizados en todas las ?reas relacionadas con las lenguas mesoamericanas, incluyendo las lenguas ind?genas y el espa?ol mesoamericano, para El Congreso Internacional de Ling??stica Mesoamericana, que se realizar? los d?as 22 y 23 de febrero de 2013 en la Universidad Estatal de California en Fullerton. Gu?a para el env?o de res?menes: 1. Las ponencias podr?n presentarse en ingl?s o espa?ol. Se aceptar? un m?ximo de un resumen por autor individual o dos en coautor?a. El tiempo para la presentaci?n de las ponencias ser? de 20 minutos, con un espacio de 10 minutos para discusi?n. 2. El resumen deber? tener una extensi?n m?xima de una p?gina, a interlineado sencillo con letra de 12 puntos. 3. Para mantener el anonimato del arbitraje, el nombre del autor o cualquier otra informaci?n que podr?a se?alar la identidad del autor no debe aparecer en el resumen. 4. Por favor, incluya la siguiente informaci?n en el cuerpo de su mensaje electr?nico: el t?tulo del trabajo, el ?rea de investigaci?n, el nombre completo del autor o autores, la instituci?n de adscripci?n y el correo electr?nico. 5. Favor de enviar su resumen en formato Microsoft Word o PDF a http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/1stmalingconf. 6. Se puede dirigir preguntas acerca del congreso a 1stmesoamlingconf at gmail.com. Fechas importantes: Cierre de convocatoria para las mesas de ponencias: 30 de septiembre de 2012 Cierre de convocatoria para res?menes: 15 de octubre de 2012 Notificaci?n del resultado de arbitraje: 1 de noviembre de 2012 Organizadores: Natalie Operstein (noperstein at fullerton.edu) y Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (asonnen at exchange.calstatela.edu). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Mesoamerica Call.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 11385 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 Mon Jul 30 14:27:07 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:27:07 +0000 Subject: Now available on Project MUSE - Now available on Project MUSE - The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57:2 (July 2012) Message-ID: Now available on Project MUSE The Canadian Journal of Linguistics Volume 57, Issue 2, July 2012 SPECIAL ISSUE: Properties of predication / Propri?t?s de la pr?dication This issue contains: Introduction Ileana Paul This issue addresses questions surrounding predication. Read more... pp. 173-176 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0031 Articles Forms of predication in Sakha (Turkic): Will the true lexical predicates please stand up? Mark C. Baker, Nadezda Vinokurova Abstract: The Turkic language Sakha (Yakut) uses a copular verb with predicate nominals but not with predicate adjectives or verbs in certain environments, including relative clauses, nominalized clauses, and complements to nouns. Previous work takes this as evidence that adjectives but not nouns are true one-place predicates. However, unaccusativity diagnostics show that adjectives pattern with nouns in Sakha, as in other languages: neither is inherently predicative without a predicative functional head. The need for a copula with predicate nominals in certain environments can be explained using Richards's distinctiveness condition. Relative clauses, noun complements, and nominalization structures all bring a nominal head in close contact with the predicate. If the predicate itself is nominal, a verbal copula must intervene to separate the predicate from the embedding head of the same category. R?sum?: La langue turcique Sakha (Yakut) emploie une copule avec les noms pr?dicatifs mais pas avec les adjectifs pr?dicatifs ou les verbes dans les contextes tels que les subordonn?es relatives ou substantiv?es et les compl?ments de noms. Des ?tudes pr?c?dentes concluent par cons?quent que contrairement aux substantifs, les adjectifs sont de vrais pr?dicats monovalents. Cependant, certains tests d'inaccusativit? d?montrent qu'en Sakha, les adjectifs se comportent comme les noms, comme dans les autres langues : ni l'adjectif ni le nom n'est pr?dicatif sans une t?te fonctionnelle pr?dicative. La n?cessit? d'une copule dans certains contextes peut s'expliquer par la condition de caract?re distinct de Richards. Les subordonn?es relatives, les compl?ments de nom et les nominalisations ont en commun le rapprochement d'une t?te nominale et d'un pr?dicat. Si le pr?dicat est nominal, une copule intervient pour s?parer le pr?dicat de la t?te ench?ss?e de la m?me cat?gorie. pp. 177-207 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0032 Specification, equation, and agreement in copular sentences Caroline Heycock Abstract: This article presents new data from a number of Germanic languages concerning the agreement patterns found in copular clauses that contain two nominals; in both clauses with specificational readings (such as The problem is your parents) and those with what are here termed readings of assumed identity (such as If I were you or In my dream I was you). It is argued that the specificational sentences involve asymmetric equative structures where one nominal is interpreted as in a concealed question, and that the cross-linguistic differences in agreement patterns found in the languages considered follow from the copula lexicalizing either Tense or a lower head. R?sum?: Cet article pr?sente de nouvelles donn?es tir?es de certaines langues germaniques et qui illustrent les sch?mas d'accord dans les propositions copulatives avec deux substantifs ; les propositions ? lecture sp?cificationnelle (telles que The problem is your parents) ainsi que celles ? ?lecture d'identit? emprunt?e? (telle que If I were you ou In my dream I was you). L'article propose que les phrases sp?cificationnelles comprennent des structures ?quatives asym?triques o? un substantif est interpr?t? exactement comme dans le contexte d'une question furtive, et que les diff?rences interlinguistiques dans les sch?mas d'accord relev?s dans les langues sous consid?ration d?coulent de la lexicalisation par la copule de la t?te tens?e T0 ou d'une t?te plus basse dans la structure. pp. 209-240 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0033 On the status of inversion in an inverse language Diane Massam Abstract: This article addresses inversion in an inverse (VSO) language, Niuean, focusing on two issues. First, it has been proposed that in certain types of copular sentences, such as pseudo-cleft constructions (PCCs), the predicate rather than the subject may move into the specifier position of TP. This raises the question of PCCs in a language in which the predicate normally moves there. Such sentences might exhibit their normal inverse order or the inverse of this. The second issue is what constitutes the predicate in a PCC. The headless relative (and not the DP) is usually analyzed as the predicate because, in standard theories of predication, a referential nominal cannot be a predicate. However, in Niuean PCCs, the DP is usually analyzed as the predicate. I propose that it is in fact a reduced headless relative with a null predicate. It becomes clear that there is no special copular inversion: the inversion requirement is taken care of by the general predicate-fronting process. The analysis thus sheds new light on the general nature of copular inversion and allows Niuean PCCs to fall into the standard view of predication theory. R?sum?: Cet article ?tudie l'inversion dans une langue inverse (VSO), le niu?en, et se concentre sur deux questions. D'abord, il a ?t? propos? que dans certains types de phrases ? copule, telles que les pseudo-cliv?es (CPC), il est possible qu'un pr?dicat se d?place dans le sp?cifieur du Syntagme Temps plut?t que le sujet. Cela soul?ve la question des CPC dans une langue o? le pr?dicat se d?place par d?faut dans la position sujet. De telles phrases pourraient manifester leur ordre inverse habituel ou l'inverse de celui-ci. La deuxi?me question porte sur le statut du pr?dicat dans une CPC. La relative substantive (et non le SD) est habituellement identifi?e comme le pr?dicat parce que, selon les th?ories conventionnelles de la pr?dication, un nom r?f?rentiel ne peut ?tre un pr?dicat. Cependant, dans les CPC en niu?en, le SD est habituellement analys? comme le pr?dicat. Dans cet article, je propose qu'il est en fait une relative substantive r?duite avec un pr?dicat nul. Il n'y a par cons?quent aucune inversion copulative sp?ciale : l'exigence d'inversion est satisfaite par la nature g?n?rale du processus d'ant?position du pr?dicat. Cette analyse nous permet donc de mieux comprendre la nature g?n?rale de l'inversion copulative et situe les CPC en niu?en dans la perspective standard de la th?orie de la pr?dication. pp. 241-260 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0027 Generic predicates and interest-relativity Sally McConnell-Ginet Abstract: "Simple generics" with bare plural subjects (e.g., dogs bark) predicate of a kind a property that the kind "inherits" from its individual members. But what does that inheritance amount to if it is not, like most dogs bark, based on how many individuals have the property. My conclusion: there is no determinate account of which (fundamentally individual-level) properties can be truly predicated of a kind: generics are not quantificational, and language users' interests guide judgments on their truthconditions. At the same time, even "canonical" predications of ordinary predicates of ordinary individuals are not so straightforward as they might appear. Generic claims about social groups show the indeterminacy of truth conditions for simple generics and the relation to stereotypes and sometimes conflicting interests. R?sum?: Les g?n?riques simples, tels que les noms nus sujets au pluriel (e.g., dogs bark), mettent en relation de pr?dication une esp?ce et une propri?t? que l'esp?ce ?h?rite? de ses membres individuels. Mais ? quoi ?quivaut cet ?h?ritage? s'il n'est pas (comme dans most dogs bark) fond? sur le nombre d'individus qui poss?dent cette propri?t?? Ma conclusion : il n'y a pas d'analyse d?finitive des diverses propri?t?s (essentiellement de niveau individuel (I-level)) qui peuvent entrer en relation de pr?dication avec une esp?ce : les phrases g?n?riques ne sont pas quantificationnelles et les int?r?ts des locuteurs guident les jugements des conditions de v?rit?. En outre, m?me la pr?dication ?canonique? des pr?dicats ordinaires et des individus ordinaires n'est pas si simple. Les affirmations g?n?riques ? propos des groupes sociaux montrent la nature ind?termin?e des conditions de v?rit? pour les g?n?riques simples, ainsi que le rapport avec les st?r?otypes et parfois avec des int?r?ts conflictuels. pp. 261-287 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0028 Saying and doing: The role of semantics in the use of generic sentences Bernhard Nickel Abstract: This article discusses semantic theories of generic sentences that seek to tie their meaning closely to their use, rather than giving more traditional truth-conditional semantic treatments. It focuses on McConnell-Ginet's recent work and defends truth-conditional approaches combined with a traditional semantics-pragmatics distinction. R?sum?: Cet article porte sur les phrases g?n?riques et sur les analyses s?mantiques qui tentent de lier l'interpr?tation de ces phrases ? leur usage plut?t qu'en terme de conditions de v?rit? comme il est de mise dans les analyses traditionnelles. L'article vise en particulier le travail r?cent de McConnell-Ginet et d?fend les approches traditionnelles en termes de conditions de v?rit? tout en d?fendant la distinction ordinaire entre la s?mantique et la pragmatique. pp. 289-302 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0029 Where does predication come from? David Gil Abstract: Predication is widely considered to be a fundamental feature of human language and conceptual structure. This article offers a reassessment of the central role that predication plays within current theories of grammar, by calling into question the universality of predication and its nature as a primitive, irreducible notion. It proposes a new definition of predicate, as a complex emergent entity derived from the alignment of two independent elements of conceptual structure: thematic role assignment and headedness. R?sum?: Selon une longue tradition, la pr?dication est un trait fondamental des langues naturelles et de la structure conceptuelle. Cet article r?examine le r?le central que la pr?dication occupe dans les th?ories linguistiques actuelles, et remet en question le caract?re universel de la pr?dication et son statut de primitif irr?ductible. Il propose une nouvelle d?finition de ?pr?dicat?, soit une entit? complexe ?mergente qui d?coule de l'alignement de deux ?l?ments de la structure conceptuelle ind?pendants l'un de l'autre : l'attribution des r?les th?matiques et le statut de t?te. pp. 303-333 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0030 The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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Please follow these links : General presentation : http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=108981 Programm : http://linguistlist.org/callconf/program-action.cfm?ConfID=108981 Third call for papers : http://linguistlist.org/callconf/call-action.cfm?ConfID=108981 Best regards Fabienne Reboul -- ----- Claire Bowern Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Yale University 370 Temple St New Haven, CT 06511 North American Dialects survey: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects/ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l