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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Guarav Mathur<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please could you send more complete citations of the two
articles mentioned <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In your post?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Very interested<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Allen Gardner<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: slling-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu
[mailto:slling-l-bounces@majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of Gaurav Mathur<br>
Sent: Friday<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName> January 11<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName> 2008 8:18 AM<br>
To: slling-l@majordomo.valenciacc.edu<br>
Subject: [SLLING-L] Re: modifiability of indicating verbs<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Christian Rathmann and I have been following the recent
discussion <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>with interest<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
because we have been interested in finding out under <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>which conditions a verb can be modulated for person and
number. In <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>our work<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName> we
suggest that semantic factors (i.e. argument structure) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>predict which verbs are candidates for being modulated for
agreement <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(i.e. selecting for two animate arguments)<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName> and that a number of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>further factors<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
including phonological phonetic<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
discourse-related <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>and historical<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
determine whether this agreement is realized.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName> instead of
asking whether a verb is plain or agreeing<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
it may <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>make better sense to ask whether they are *candidates* for
being <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>modulated for agreement (or for indicating entities) or not.
This <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>would be one way to get around saying that verb agreement is
not <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>obligatory (as has been suggested here) and therefore not
directly <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>comparable to agreement systems in spoken languages like
Spanish or <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>German.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The ASL sign PITY that was given earlier as an example is a
case in <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>point. It is a candidate for agreement<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
because it selects for two <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>animate arguments (a person who is doing the pitying and the
person <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>who is being pitied). It can be modulated for person and
number by <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>changing the orientation of the hands. In this case<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName> the modulation <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>does not necessarily mean that the hands move from one
location to <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>another.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more details<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
see our paper "Is verb agreement the same cross- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>modally" in Meier<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName>
Cormier and Quinto-Pozos<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(2002) as well as "Verb agreement as a linguistic
innovation in <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>signed languages" in Quer's volume based on TISLR8 (in
press).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Best<st1:PersonName w:st="on">,</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Gaurav<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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