Andrew Weir | NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
We make an in-depth study of the response particles ja/nee (‘yes/no’) in the Lapscheure dialect of Dutch. These particles show overt phi-feature marking corresponding to what would be the subject of a response clause. Additionally, in ‘reversal answers’, the particles bear additional morphology. We develop a cartographic analysis, arguing that ja/nee represent TP proforms (Krifka 2013). We analyze the pronominal marking as a reflex of phi-features which are merged in Fin to satisfy the Subject Criterion (Rizzi & Shlonsky 2007). We argue that this analysis accounts for a number of facts concerning the distribution of ja/nee, including their incompatibility with (most) clausemate material, and the co-occurrence restrictions between ja/nee, the discourse particle ba, and ‘reversal doet’ (Van Craenenbroeck 2010).
2013Phase-edge features and the syntax of polarity particles. Linguistic Inquiry 44: 345-89.
Barbiers, Sjef, Bennis, Hans, de Vogelaer, Gunther, Devos, Magda & van der Ham, Margreet
2005Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects, Vol. I: Commentary. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Cardinaletti, Anna
1997Subjects and clause structure. In The New Comparative Syntax, Liliane Haegeman (ed.), 33-63. London: Longman.
Cardinaletti, Anna
2004Towards a cartography of subject positions. In The Structure of CP and IP, Luigi Rizzi (ed.), 115-165. Oxford: OUP.
Chomsky, Noam
1993A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory [MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1]. Cambridge MA: MITWPL.
Chomsky, Noam
1995The Minimalist Program. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
Culbertson, Jennifer
2010Convergent evidence for categorial change in French: From subject clitic to agreement marker. Language 86: 85-132.
de Schutter, Georges & Taeldeman, Johan
1986Assimilatie van stem in de zuidelijke Nederlandse dialekten. In Vruchten van z’n akker: opstellen van (oud-) medewerkers en oud-studenten voor Prof. V. F. Vanacker, Magda Devos & Johan Taeldeman (eds), 91-133. Ghent: Seminaire voor Nederlands Taalkunde.
de Vogelaer, Gunther & van der Auwera, Johan
2010When typological rara generate rarissima: Analogical extension of verbal agreement in Dutch dialects. In: Rara & Rarissima. Collecting and Interpreting Unusual Characteristics of Human Language, Jan Wohlgemuth & Michael Cysouw (eds), 47-73. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Devos, Magda
1986Het persoonlijk voornaamwoord 2e pers enk in het Westvlaams. Geografie en historiek. In Vruchten van z’n akker: opstellen van (oud-) medewerkers en oud-studenten voor Prof. V. F. Vanacker, Magda Devos & Johan Taeldeman (eds), 167-189. Ghent: Seminaire voor Nederlands Taalkunde.
Devos, Magda & Vandekerckhove, Reinhild
2005Taal in Stad en Land. West-vlaams. Tielt: Lannoo.
Farkas, Donka F. & Bruce, Kim B
2010On reacting to assertions and polar questions. Journal of Semantics 27: 81-118.
Gribanova, Vera
2014Discourse-driven head movement, VSO and ellipsis in Russian. Presentation at
NELS 45
, MIT, October 31.
Haegeman, Liliane
1991Subject pronouns and subject clitics in West-Flemish. The Linguistic Review 7: 333-364.
Haegeman, Liliane
1996Verb second, the split CP and null subjects in early Dutch finite clauses. GenGenP. [URL]
Haegeman, Liliane
2002West Flemish negation and the derivation of SOV order in West Germanic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 25: 154-189.
Hardt, Daniel
1993Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Form, Meaning, and Processing. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Hoeksema, Jack
2006Hij zei van niet, maar knikte van ja: Distributie en diachronie van bijwoorden van polariteit ingeleid door van. Tabu 35: 135-158.
Hoeksema, Jack
2008Van + bijwoord van polariteit: Een geval van verplichte PP extrapositie?Tabu 37: 69-74.
Holmberg, Anders
2001The syntax of yes and no in Finnish. Studia Linguistica 55: 141-175.
Holmberg, Anders
2007Null subjects and polarity focus. Studia Linguistica 61: 212-236.
Holmberg, Anders
2013The syntax of answers to polar questions in English and Swedish. Lingua 128: 31-50.
Kramer, Ruth & Rawlins, Kyle
2011Polarity particles: An ellipsis account. In Proceedings of NELS 39, Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin, & Brian Smith (eds). Amherst MA: GLSA.
Krifka, Manfred
2013Response particles as propositional anaphors. In Proceedings of SALT 23, Todd Snider (ed.), 1-18. Ithaca NY: CLC Publications.
Laka, Itziar
1990Negation in English: On the Nature of Functional Categories and Projections. PhD dissertation, MIT.
Lobeck, Anne
1995Ellipsis: Functional Heads, Licensing and Identification. Oxford: OUP.
2004Fragments and ellipsis. Linguistics and Philosophy 27: 661-738.
Miyagawa, Shigeru
2013Agreements that occur mainly in the main clause. In Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 190], Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman & Rachel Nye (eds), 79-112. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Muysken, Pieter
1982Parameterizing the notion ‘head’. Journal of Linguistic Research 2: 57-75.
Muysken, Pieter & van Riemsdijk, Henk
1986Projecting features and featuring projections. In Features and Projections, Pieter Muysken & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds), 1-30. Dordrecht: Foris.
Paardekooper, Piet C
1993Jaak/neenik enz. Tabu 23: 143-173.
Pollock, Jean-Yves
1989Verb movement, Universal Grammar, and the structure of IP. Linguistic Inquiry 20: 365-424.
Progovac, Ljiljana
1993Negative polarity: Entailment and binding. Linguistics and Philosophy 16: 149-180.
Progovac, Ljiljana
1994Negative and Positive Polarity. Cambridge: CUP.
Rizzi, Luigi
1982Issues in Italian Syntax. Dordrecht: Foris.
Rizzi, Luigi
1997The fine structure of the left periphery. In Elements of Grammar: Handbook in Generative Syntax, Liliane Haegeman (ed.), 281–337. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Rizzi, Luigi
2006On the form of chains: Criterial positions and ECP effects. In Wh-Movement: Moving on, Lisa Cheng & Norbert Corver (eds), 97-133. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
Rizzi, Luigi & Shlonsky, Ur
2006Satisfying the subject criterion by a non-subject: English locative inversion and heavy NP shift. In Phases of Interpretation, Mara Frascarelli (ed.), 341-361. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Rizzi, Luigi & Shlonsky, Ur
2007Strategies of subject extraction. In Interfaces + Recursion = Language? Chomsky's Minimalism and the View from Syntax-Semantics, Hans-Martin Gärtner & Uli Sauerland (eds), 115-160. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Roberts, Ian
2010Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
Servidio, Emilio
2014Polarity Particles in Italian: Focus, Fragments, Tags. PhD dissertation, University of Siena.
Simon, Ellen
2010Phonological transfer of voicing and devoicing rules: Evidence from L1 Dutch and L2 English conversational speech. Language Sciences 32: 63–86.
Smessaert, Hans
1995Morfo-syntaxis van het Westvlaamse bè-jaa-k-gie. Tabu 25: 45-60.
Taraldsen, K. Tarald
2001Subject extraction, the distribution of expletives and stylistic inversion. In Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar, Aafke Hulk & Jean-Yves Pollock (eds), 163-182. Oxford: OUP.
Van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen
2002Van as a marker of dissociation: Microvariation in Dutch. In Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 53], C. Jan-Wouter Zwart & Werner Abraham (eds), 41-68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen
2010Ellipsis in Dutch Dialects. Oxford: OUP.
Van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen & Haegeman, Liliane
2007The derivation of subject-initial V2. Linguistic Inquiry 38: 167-178.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 21 march 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.