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Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
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Giuliana Giusti
Giusti, Giuliana
Giuliana
Giusti
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò
Vincenzo Nicolò
Di Caro
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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Daniel Ross
Ross, Daniel
Daniel
Ross
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign & University of California, Riverside
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Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include detailed analyses of Romance, Germanic, Slavic and other languages. These contributions show important cross-linguistic similarities in these constructions, as well as their diversity, providing insights into areas such as the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces, dialectal variation and language contact. This volume establishes Pseudo-Coordination as a descriptively important and theoretically challenging cross-linguistic phenomenon among Multiple Agreement Constructions and will be of interest to specialists in individual languages as well as typologists and theoreticians, serving as a foundation to promote continued research.
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Chapter 1. Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
An overview
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Giuliana Giusti
Giusti, Giuliana
Giuliana
Giusti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò
Vincenzo Nicolò
Di Caro
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Daniel Ross
Ross, Daniel
Daniel
Ross
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of California
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This introductory chapter provides background on the phenomena of Pseudo-Coordination (PseCo) and Multiple Agreement Constructions (MACs) with the aim of familiarizing readers with major trends in previous research on these varied phenomena. Common structural and functional properties used to identify PseCo and MACs are described, along with a detailed discussion of the features that make crucial differences within each phenomenon in individual languages and cross-linguistically. We also observe interesting similarities between the two phenomena and across related and unrelated languages. We maintain a pre-theoretical view here that is compatible with the different approaches represented in the volume.
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Chapter 2. Theory-driven approaches and empirical advances
A protocol for Pseudo-Coordinations and Multiple Agreement Constructions in Italo-Romance
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Giuliana Giusti
Giusti, Giuliana
Giuliana
Giusti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Anna Cardinaletti
Cardinaletti, Anna
Anna
Cardinaletti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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‘take and’ construction’
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clitic climbing
20
lack of infinitive
20
negation raising
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protocol linguistics
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pseudo-coordination
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southern Italian dialects
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Italo-Romance varieties present at least three types of constructions that cluster together two verbs displaying double tense and double subject agreement and are taken as Pseudo-Coordinations (PseCos) or Multiple Agreement Constructions (MACs). In this paper, we follow Cardinaletti and Giusti’s (1998, 2001, 2003, 2020) hypotheses and claim that unification between the PseCos with <i>a</i> and the MACs with <i>mu/mi/ma</i> or <i>ku</i> in Southern Italian dialects is not viable. We adopt a diagnostic tool, which we call a protocol, that clusters the predictions of theory-driven analyses and apply it to the ‘take and’ construction, which is widespread across dialects and productive in Italian. In doing so, we discuss unobserved facts arising in the well-studied dialectal structures and make fine-grained observations about the less studied ‘take and’ PseCo in Italian.
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Chapter 3. A bisentential syntax for <i>a</i> /bare finite complements in South Italian varieties
Motion verbs and the progressive
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Maria Rita Manzini
Manzini, Maria Rita
Maria Rita
Manzini
Università degli studi di Firenze
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Paolo Lorusso
Lorusso, Paolo
Paolo
Lorusso
Università degli studi di Firenze
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clitic
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complementizer
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inflection
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preposition
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progressive
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In South Italian varieties of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily a restricted number of control/raising verbs, including <i>stay/be, go, come</i> and <i>want</i> embed finite complements, either bare or introduced by <i>a</i>. These are not necessarily languages with so-called subjunctive particles; in any event, the latter have a different form. Under monoclausal analyses, verbs like <i>stay/be, go</i> etc. are functional heads embedding an inflected predicate. Here we adopt a biclausal analysis under which embedding under <i>stay/be, go</i> etc. is a normal clausal embedding. We argue that the biclausal analysis is not only feasible, but also advantageous, from a morphosyntactic point of view. Focusing on the progressive, we also consider whether the bisentential analysis is compatible with semantic interpretation and how it fares in a typological perspective.
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Chapter 4. Preterite indicative Pseudo-Coordination and morphomic patterns
The case of the W-Pattern in the dialect of Delia
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Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò
Vincenzo Nicolò
Di Caro
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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morphomes
20
motion verbs
20
preterite indicative
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Pseudo-Coordination
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PYTA roots
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restructuring verbs
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Sicilian dialects
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This paper discusses the paradigmatic configuration (or ‘morphome’; Aronoff 1994) that Pseudo-Coordination (V1<sub>[TAM.Agr]</sub>
<x> </x>
<i>a</i> V2<sub>[TAM.Agr]</sub>, as in <i>Jivu a ffici la spisa</i>. ‘I went and did the shopping.’) displays in the preterite indicative in Deliano: i.e. the ‘W-Pattern’ (Di Caro 2019a; Di Caro and Giusti 2018). In the first part, the suppletive nature of the preterite paradigm of the V2s licensing this construction is discussed. These V2s all feature perfective roots (i.e. PYTA roots; Maiden 2018b), such as <i>fici</i> ‘I made/did’ and <i>dissi</i> ‘I said’, which are the ones allowed in the construction, and imperfective roots, such as <i>facisti</i> ‘you (sg.) made/did’ and <i>dicisti</i> ‘you (sg.) said’. In the second part, new data from a grammaticality judgment-based study on Pseudo-Coordination in Deliano are discussed, with reference to the emergence of the W-Pattern in a specific paradigm. The results clearly show that this morphome is consistently present throughout the sample (11–80 y.o. participants, <i>N</i> = 140) and has a “psychological reality” (cf. Maiden 2018b: 1–10), in the sense that it does not seem to be affected by variables such as age or gender, or to be subject to ordering effects.
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Chapter 5. Gone unexpectedly
Pseudo-coordination and the expression of surprise
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Silvio Cruschina
Cruschina, Silvio
Silvio
Cruschina
University of Helsinki
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Catalan
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conventional implicature
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grammaticalization
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mirativity
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motion verb
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pseudo-coordination
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Sicilian
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surprise
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unexpectedness
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In this paper, I discuss a periphrastic construction involving the verb <i>go</i> in Sicilian that is used to express surprise and unexpectedness with respect to a past event. I show that the special meaning and function of this structure is best accounted for by postulating that in this construction the verb <i>go</i> is now a functional verb associated with a mirative conventional implicature. In this use, the construction is grammatically in the present tense, but is used within a narrative context to foreground an unexpected or surprising event that happened in the past. To account for the present-tense morphology, I propose that the conversational backgrounds – and in particular the ordering source defining the set of expectations of the conversation participants – can be indexed to the present time. I finally explore the hypothesis that the mirative use of this construction can shed light on the development of the Catalan <i>go</i>-past.
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Chapter 6. The properties of the ‘(a) lua și X’ (‘take and X’) construction in Romanian
Evidence in favor of a more fine-grained distinction among pseudocoordinative structures
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Adina Camelia Bleotu
Bleotu, Adina Camelia
Adina Camelia
Bleotu
University of Bucharest
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(pseudo)coordination tests
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classification
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pseudocoordination
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This paper presents a preliminary classification of the verbal structure <i>(a) lua și X</i> (‘(to) take and X’) in Romanian, showing that it represents a special case of pseudocoordination. The structure behaves differently from both coordination structures and other pseudocoordination structures with respect to the tests proposed by de Vos (2005) and Ross (2013) (e.g. the Coordinate Structure Constraint, coordinator substitution, semantic bleaching, VP-deletion, etc.), as shown by an exploratory acceptability judgment task with 52 native speakers of Romanian testing for 16 structural properties. The results suggest that the existing classification of pseudocoordination structures should be revisited in order to accommodate Romanian ‘take’ as an additional type.
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Chapter 7. Pseudo-coordination and ellipsis
Expressive insights from Brazilian Portuguese and Polish
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Gesoel Mendes
Mendes, Gesoel
Gesoel
Mendes
University of Maryland
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Marta Ruda
Ruda, Marta
Marta
Ruda
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
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ellipsis
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expressive language
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pseudo-coordination
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verb-echo answers
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In this paper, we offer some comments about the syntax of pseudo-coordination in colloquial registers of Brazilian Portuguese and Polish. Focusing on V1<i>-take (and)</i> pseudo-coordination, we suggest that, in both of them, V1<i>-take (and)</i> belongs to the expressive realm of language and we analyze V1<i>-take (and)</i> as an appositive element adjoined to vP in the extended projection of V2. In addition to the meaning of the structure, evidence for the expressive nature of V1<i>-take (and)</i> comes from the fact that it can be ignored for ellipsis purposes in contexts such as verb-echo answers, polarity contrast, verb-doubling and VP-topicalization. Evidence for the positioning of V1<i>-take (and)</i> at the vP edge is provided by distributional patterns, including the placement of adverbs and sentential negation with respect to V1<i>-take (and)</i> and V2. We propose that two minimally different structures are available for pseudo-coordination, depending on whether a coordinator accompanies V1.
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Chapter 8. Pseudo-coordination of the verb <i>jít</i> (‘go’) in contemporary Czech
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Svatava Škodová
Škodová, Svatava
Svatava
Škodová
Institute of Czech Studies,
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Aktionsart
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coordination
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Czech
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event structure
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pseudo-coordination
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serial verbs
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verb jít (‘go’)
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This chapter investigates the use of the verb <i>jít</i> (‘go’) in two construction types in the Czech language; they have in common a binary coordinative structure where the verb <i>jít</i> is coordinated with any other verb with the coordinator <i>a</i> (‘and’). These constructions are prototypical coordination (ProCo) and pseudo-coordination (PseCo). The main claim is that even though these two types share the same surface structure <i>jít</i>-<i>a-</i>V2, they represent distinct phenomena. <br />The resolution criteria are based on a two-part analysis. First, PseCo is analysed as a complex predicate. This analysis immediately accounts for a number of properties of PseCo compared to ProCo. Second, the formal features of the construction are linked to its semantic structure: PseCo expresses aktionsart via coordination over sub-stages of events. <br />I argue that ProCo is a biclausal structure coordinating two separate events, while PseCo coordinates two verbs into one complex predicate and the coordinator <i>a</i> (‘and’) serves for a coordination of sub-stages of this combined event. It appears that the first verb expresses the preparatory phase for the activity denoted by the second verb. The pseudo-coordinative verb in the first conjunct lexicalises a manner component in the internal event structure. The verb ‘go’ is desemanticized and instead of the meaning of physical motion expresses dynamic aspects of the second event. <br />This research is based on 1611 examples from the Czech National Corpus, subcorpus SYN2005, from which 923 examples are analysed as ProCo and 668 as PseCo.
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Chapter 9. In search of subjective meaning in Swedish pseudocoordination
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Kristian Blensenius
Blensenius, Kristian
Kristian
Blensenius
University of Gothenburg
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Peter Andersson Lilja
Lilja, Peter Andersson
Peter Andersson
Lilja
University of Gothenburg/University of Borås
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motion verb
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posture verb
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pseudocoordination
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subjective meaning
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This study provides a discussion of the development of subjective meaning associated with the motion-verb pseudocoordination <i>gå och</i> V ‘go/walk and V’ and the posture-verb pseudocoordination <i>sitta och</i> V ‘sit and V’, using historical and present-day linguistic data. It is claimed that an interpretation in terms of item-based analogy and entrenchment of frequent meaning clusters is the most plausible analysis for the development of subjective (and pejorative) meaning associated with <i>gå och</i> V. The study of <i>sitta och</i> V is preliminary, but the results indicate that the subjective meaning of this construction is less entrenched that that of the <i>gå och</i> V construction and that the subjective overtone of subjectivity may be a result of the combination of the social/cultural meaning of the posture and certain intrinsically pejorative verbs, together with certain locatives.
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Chapter 10. Pseudo-coordination, pseudo-subordination, and para-hypotaxis
A perspective from Semitic linguistics
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Lutz Edzard
Edzard, Lutz
Lutz
Edzard
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
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asyndetic
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converb
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infinitive
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para-hypotaxis
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posture verb
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serial-verb construction
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syndetic
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The phenomena of pseudo-coordination and, to a lesser degree, pseudo-subordination have been recognized to play an important role in Semitics linguistics, notably in the realm of converb (gerund) and serial verb constructions, albeit under different scholarly labeling. As the distinction between coordinated (paratactic) and subordinated (hypotactic) structures is often blurred in this context, this paper additionally refers to the concept of “para-hypotaxis”. As will be shown, this choice of terminology, further elaborating on a basic model proposed by Yuasa and Sadock (2002: 91), is useful to describe an analyze a number of phenomena in the domain of complex predicates, in both ancient and modern Semitic languages.
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Chapter 11. Ambiguities in Japanese pseudo-coordination and its dialectal variation
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Masaharu Shimada
Shimada, Masaharu
Masaharu
Shimada
University of Tsukuba
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Akiko Nagano
Nagano, Akiko
Akiko
Nagano
University of Shizuoka
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aspect
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dialectal variation
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existential verbs
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externalization
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Japanese
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morphology
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suppletion
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syntax
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voice
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This paper addresses Japanese pseudo-coordination containing an existential verb by focusing on the two types of existential verbs, one taking an animate subject and the other taking an inanimate subject. Though both can form a pseudo-coordination expression, one is two-way ambiguous in aspectual interpretation, and the other is not. Moreover, dialectal variation is observed. This paper attempts to explain the difference between the two interpretations of Japanese pseudo-coordination and assigns a different structure to each interpretation. More specifically, in one interpretation, existential verbs are truly existential verbs of a lexical category, and in the other interpretation, they are functional categories. Based on this analysis, dialectal variation is also explained based on the notion of externalization.
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Chapter 12. Partial versus full agreement in Turkish possessive and clausal DP-Coordination
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Deniz Tat
Tat, Deniz
Deniz
Tat
UiT The Arctic University of Norway/Leiden University
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A01
Jaklin Kornfilt
Kornfilt, Jaklin
Jaklin
Kornfilt
Syracuse University
20
linear locality conditions
20
narrow syntax
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Partial agreement
20
post-syntactic morphology
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Turkish
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In Turkish nominal phrases and clauses where a coordinated possessor or subject is related to agreement morphology on the possessee or the nominalized predicate, respectively, agreement is realized either in full or in partial expression. The choice between the two is determined in certain cases by syntactic phenomena, suggesting that agreement must figure in syntax. However, partial possessor agreement appears to result from a relationship between the possessee or nominalized predicate, and the last conjunct only, hinting that it is also subject to linear locality conditions. We conclude that the agreement phenomenon in languages results from conditions that apply in syntax proper and from conditions that apply in a post-syntactic component separately, which can alter the output of syntax proper where applicable.
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Chapter 13. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of Pseudo-Coordination
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Moreno Mitrović
Mitrović, Moreno
Moreno
Mitrović
Leibniz Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin/Bled Institute
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(dynamic) conjunction
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allosemy
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compositionality
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junction
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parameter
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There have been very few attempts to date to provide an explicit semantics/pragmatics for Pseudo-Coordination (PseCo) expressions. This chapter is an attempt to fill that gap, zooming in on the ‘go-(and-)get’-type. To do so, I first provide a syntactic account of PseCo, which derives from a standard coordination structure (which I label Junction), onto and from which a compositional semantic account is derived. The signature pragmatic properties of PseCo of negative-emotive factivity are also derived. Aside from providing the first systematic and cross-modular analysis of PseCo, the chapter also provides a number of new diagnostics for identifying and classifying PseCo expressions which may be useful in future work on the topic.
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Chapter 14. Pseudocoordination and Serial Verb Constructions as Multi-Verb Predicates
1
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Daniel Ross
Ross, Daniel
Daniel
Ross
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of California
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complex predicates
20
converbs
20
multi-verb predicates
20
pseudocoordination
20
serial verb constructions
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typology
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Verbal pseudocoordination (as in English <i>go and get</i>) is often seen as an idiosyncratic phenomenon described in exceptional terms. This paper establishes the typological context to explain key properties of pseudocoordination, integrated into a more general typology of multi-verb constructions. At the same time, principled motivations are given for the arbitrary list of traditional properties attributed to Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs). The broader category of Multi-Verb Predicates (MVPs) is proposed as any monoclausal multi-verb construction with two verbs forming a complex predicate. Subtypes of MVPs are distinguished by their form: pseudocoordination with a linker ‘and’, while SVCs have no linker. Structural properties of MVPs, such as shared inflectional features on each verb, are readily explained as due to monoclausality.
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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
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An overview
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Giuliana Giusti
Giusti, Giuliana
Giuliana
Giusti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
2
A01
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò
Vincenzo Nicolò
Di Caro
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Daniel Ross
Ross, Daniel
Daniel
Ross
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of California
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This introductory chapter provides background on the phenomena of Pseudo-Coordination (PseCo) and Multiple Agreement Constructions (MACs) with the aim of familiarizing readers with major trends in previous research on these varied phenomena. Common structural and functional properties used to identify PseCo and MACs are described, along with a detailed discussion of the features that make crucial differences within each phenomenon in individual languages and cross-linguistically. We also observe interesting similarities between the two phenomena and across related and unrelated languages. We maintain a pre-theoretical view here that is compatible with the different approaches represented in the volume.
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A protocol for Pseudo-Coordinations and Multiple Agreement Constructions in Italo-Romance
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Giuliana Giusti
Giusti, Giuliana
Giuliana
Giusti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
2
A01
Anna Cardinaletti
Cardinaletti, Anna
Anna
Cardinaletti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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‘take and’ construction’
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clitic climbing
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lack of infinitive
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negation raising
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protocol linguistics
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pseudo-coordination
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southern Italian dialects
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Italo-Romance varieties present at least three types of constructions that cluster together two verbs displaying double tense and double subject agreement and are taken as Pseudo-Coordinations (PseCos) or Multiple Agreement Constructions (MACs). In this paper, we follow Cardinaletti and Giusti’s (1998, 2001, 2003, 2020) hypotheses and claim that unification between the PseCos with <i>a</i> and the MACs with <i>mu/mi/ma</i> or <i>ku</i> in Southern Italian dialects is not viable. We adopt a diagnostic tool, which we call a protocol, that clusters the predictions of theory-driven analyses and apply it to the ‘take and’ construction, which is widespread across dialects and productive in Italian. In doing so, we discuss unobserved facts arising in the well-studied dialectal structures and make fine-grained observations about the less studied ‘take and’ PseCo in Italian.
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la.274.03man
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Chapter 3. A bisentential syntax for <i>a</i> /bare finite complements in South Italian varieties
Motion verbs and the progressive
1
A01
Maria Rita Manzini
Manzini, Maria Rita
Maria Rita
Manzini
Università degli studi di Firenze
2
A01
Paolo Lorusso
Lorusso, Paolo
Paolo
Lorusso
Università degli studi di Firenze
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clitic
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complementizer
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inflection
20
preposition
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progressive
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In South Italian varieties of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily a restricted number of control/raising verbs, including <i>stay/be, go, come</i> and <i>want</i> embed finite complements, either bare or introduced by <i>a</i>. These are not necessarily languages with so-called subjunctive particles; in any event, the latter have a different form. Under monoclausal analyses, verbs like <i>stay/be, go</i> etc. are functional heads embedding an inflected predicate. Here we adopt a biclausal analysis under which embedding under <i>stay/be, go</i> etc. is a normal clausal embedding. We argue that the biclausal analysis is not only feasible, but also advantageous, from a morphosyntactic point of view. Focusing on the progressive, we also consider whether the bisentential analysis is compatible with semantic interpretation and how it fares in a typological perspective.
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la.274.04dic
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128
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Chapter 4. Preterite indicative Pseudo-Coordination and morphomic patterns
The case of the W-Pattern in the dialect of Delia
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A01
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
Di Caro, Vincenzo Nicolò
Vincenzo Nicolò
Di Caro
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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morphomes
20
motion verbs
20
preterite indicative
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Pseudo-Coordination
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PYTA roots
20
restructuring verbs
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Sicilian dialects
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This paper discusses the paradigmatic configuration (or ‘morphome’; Aronoff 1994) that Pseudo-Coordination (V1<sub>[TAM.Agr]</sub>
<x> </x>
<i>a</i> V2<sub>[TAM.Agr]</sub>, as in <i>Jivu a ffici la spisa</i>. ‘I went and did the shopping.’) displays in the preterite indicative in Deliano: i.e. the ‘W-Pattern’ (Di Caro 2019a; Di Caro and Giusti 2018). In the first part, the suppletive nature of the preterite paradigm of the V2s licensing this construction is discussed. These V2s all feature perfective roots (i.e. PYTA roots; Maiden 2018b), such as <i>fici</i> ‘I made/did’ and <i>dissi</i> ‘I said’, which are the ones allowed in the construction, and imperfective roots, such as <i>facisti</i> ‘you (sg.) made/did’ and <i>dicisti</i> ‘you (sg.) said’. In the second part, new data from a grammaticality judgment-based study on Pseudo-Coordination in Deliano are discussed, with reference to the emergence of the W-Pattern in a specific paradigm. The results clearly show that this morphome is consistently present throughout the sample (11–80 y.o. participants, <i>N</i> = 140) and has a “psychological reality” (cf. Maiden 2018b: 1–10), in the sense that it does not seem to be affected by variables such as age or gender, or to be subject to ordering effects.
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la.274.05cru
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Chapter 5. Gone unexpectedly
Pseudo-coordination and the expression of surprise
1
A01
Silvio Cruschina
Cruschina, Silvio
Silvio
Cruschina
University of Helsinki
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Catalan
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conventional implicature
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grammaticalization
20
mirativity
20
motion verb
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pseudo-coordination
20
Sicilian
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surprise
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unexpectedness
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In this paper, I discuss a periphrastic construction involving the verb <i>go</i> in Sicilian that is used to express surprise and unexpectedness with respect to a past event. I show that the special meaning and function of this structure is best accounted for by postulating that in this construction the verb <i>go</i> is now a functional verb associated with a mirative conventional implicature. In this use, the construction is grammatically in the present tense, but is used within a narrative context to foreground an unexpected or surprising event that happened in the past. To account for the present-tense morphology, I propose that the conversational backgrounds – and in particular the ordering source defining the set of expectations of the conversation participants – can be indexed to the present time. I finally explore the hypothesis that the mirative use of this construction can shed light on the development of the Catalan <i>go</i>-past.
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la.274.06ble
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Chapter
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Chapter 6. The properties of the ‘(a) lua și X’ (‘take and X’) construction in Romanian
Evidence in favor of a more fine-grained distinction among pseudocoordinative structures
1
A01
Adina Camelia Bleotu
Bleotu, Adina Camelia
Adina Camelia
Bleotu
University of Bucharest
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(pseudo)coordination tests
20
classification
20
pseudocoordination
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This paper presents a preliminary classification of the verbal structure <i>(a) lua și X</i> (‘(to) take and X’) in Romanian, showing that it represents a special case of pseudocoordination. The structure behaves differently from both coordination structures and other pseudocoordination structures with respect to the tests proposed by de Vos (2005) and Ross (2013) (e.g. the Coordinate Structure Constraint, coordinator substitution, semantic bleaching, VP-deletion, etc.), as shown by an exploratory acceptability judgment task with 52 native speakers of Romanian testing for 16 structural properties. The results suggest that the existing classification of pseudocoordination structures should be revisited in order to accommodate Romanian ‘take’ as an additional type.
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Section header
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Section 2. Other languages
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JB code
la.274.07men
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190
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Chapter
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Chapter 7. Pseudo-coordination and ellipsis
Expressive insights from Brazilian Portuguese and Polish
1
A01
Gesoel Mendes
Mendes, Gesoel
Gesoel
Mendes
University of Maryland
2
A01
Marta Ruda
Ruda, Marta
Marta
Ruda
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
20
ellipsis
20
expressive language
20
pseudo-coordination
20
verb-echo answers
01
In this paper, we offer some comments about the syntax of pseudo-coordination in colloquial registers of Brazilian Portuguese and Polish. Focusing on V1<i>-take (and)</i> pseudo-coordination, we suggest that, in both of them, V1<i>-take (and)</i> belongs to the expressive realm of language and we analyze V1<i>-take (and)</i> as an appositive element adjoined to vP in the extended projection of V2. In addition to the meaning of the structure, evidence for the expressive nature of V1<i>-take (and)</i> comes from the fact that it can be ignored for ellipsis purposes in contexts such as verb-echo answers, polarity contrast, verb-doubling and VP-topicalization. Evidence for the positioning of V1<i>-take (and)</i> at the vP edge is provided by distributional patterns, including the placement of adverbs and sentential negation with respect to V1<i>-take (and)</i> and V2. We propose that two minimally different structures are available for pseudo-coordination, depending on whether a coordinator accompanies V1.
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la.274.08sko
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212
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Chapter 8. Pseudo-coordination of the verb <i>jít</i> (‘go’) in contemporary Czech
1
A01
Svatava Škodová
Škodová, Svatava
Svatava
Škodová
Institute of Czech Studies,
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Aktionsart
20
coordination
20
Czech
20
event structure
20
pseudo-coordination
20
serial verbs
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verb jít (‘go’)
01
This chapter investigates the use of the verb <i>jít</i> (‘go’) in two construction types in the Czech language; they have in common a binary coordinative structure where the verb <i>jít</i> is coordinated with any other verb with the coordinator <i>a</i> (‘and’). These constructions are prototypical coordination (ProCo) and pseudo-coordination (PseCo). The main claim is that even though these two types share the same surface structure <i>jít</i>-<i>a-</i>V2, they represent distinct phenomena. <br />The resolution criteria are based on a two-part analysis. First, PseCo is analysed as a complex predicate. This analysis immediately accounts for a number of properties of PseCo compared to ProCo. Second, the formal features of the construction are linked to its semantic structure: PseCo expresses aktionsart via coordination over sub-stages of events. <br />I argue that ProCo is a biclausal structure coordinating two separate events, while PseCo coordinates two verbs into one complex predicate and the coordinator <i>a</i> (‘and’) serves for a coordination of sub-stages of this combined event. It appears that the first verb expresses the preparatory phase for the activity denoted by the second verb. The pseudo-coordinative verb in the first conjunct lexicalises a manner component in the internal event structure. The verb ‘go’ is desemanticized and instead of the meaning of physical motion expresses dynamic aspects of the second event. <br />This research is based on 1611 examples from the Czech National Corpus, subcorpus SYN2005, from which 923 examples are analysed as ProCo and 668 as PseCo.
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la.274.09ble
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Chapter 9. In search of subjective meaning in Swedish pseudocoordination
1
A01
Kristian Blensenius
Blensenius, Kristian
Kristian
Blensenius
University of Gothenburg
2
A01
Peter Andersson Lilja
Lilja, Peter Andersson
Peter Andersson
Lilja
University of Gothenburg/University of Borås
20
motion verb
20
posture verb
20
pseudocoordination
20
subjective meaning
20
Swedish
01
This study provides a discussion of the development of subjective meaning associated with the motion-verb pseudocoordination <i>gå och</i> V ‘go/walk and V’ and the posture-verb pseudocoordination <i>sitta och</i> V ‘sit and V’, using historical and present-day linguistic data. It is claimed that an interpretation in terms of item-based analogy and entrenchment of frequent meaning clusters is the most plausible analysis for the development of subjective (and pejorative) meaning associated with <i>gå och</i> V. The study of <i>sitta och</i> V is preliminary, but the results indicate that the subjective meaning of this construction is less entrenched that that of the <i>gå och</i> V construction and that the subjective overtone of subjectivity may be a result of the combination of the social/cultural meaning of the posture and certain intrinsically pejorative verbs, together with certain locatives.
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la.274.10edz
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Chapter 10. Pseudo-coordination, pseudo-subordination, and para-hypotaxis
A perspective from Semitic linguistics
1
A01
Lutz Edzard
Edzard, Lutz
Lutz
Edzard
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
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asyndetic
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converb
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infinitive
20
para-hypotaxis
20
posture verb
20
serial-verb construction
20
syndetic
01
The phenomena of pseudo-coordination and, to a lesser degree, pseudo-subordination have been recognized to play an important role in Semitics linguistics, notably in the realm of converb (gerund) and serial verb constructions, albeit under different scholarly labeling. As the distinction between coordinated (paratactic) and subordinated (hypotactic) structures is often blurred in this context, this paper additionally refers to the concept of “para-hypotaxis”. As will be shown, this choice of terminology, further elaborating on a basic model proposed by Yuasa and Sadock (2002: 91), is useful to describe an analyze a number of phenomena in the domain of complex predicates, in both ancient and modern Semitic languages.
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la.274.p3
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Section 3. Comparative and theoretical
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la.274.11shi
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Chapter 11. Ambiguities in Japanese pseudo-coordination and its dialectal variation
1
A01
Masaharu Shimada
Shimada, Masaharu
Masaharu
Shimada
University of Tsukuba
2
A01
Akiko Nagano
Nagano, Akiko
Akiko
Nagano
University of Shizuoka
20
aspect
20
dialectal variation
20
existential verbs
20
externalization
20
Japanese
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morphology
20
suppletion
20
syntax
20
voice
01
This paper addresses Japanese pseudo-coordination containing an existential verb by focusing on the two types of existential verbs, one taking an animate subject and the other taking an inanimate subject. Though both can form a pseudo-coordination expression, one is two-way ambiguous in aspectual interpretation, and the other is not. Moreover, dialectal variation is observed. This paper attempts to explain the difference between the two interpretations of Japanese pseudo-coordination and assigns a different structure to each interpretation. More specifically, in one interpretation, existential verbs are truly existential verbs of a lexical category, and in the other interpretation, they are functional categories. Based on this analysis, dialectal variation is also explained based on the notion of externalization.
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la.274.12tat
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Chapter 12. Partial versus full agreement in Turkish possessive and clausal DP-Coordination
1
A01
Deniz Tat
Tat, Deniz
Deniz
Tat
UiT The Arctic University of Norway/Leiden University
2
A01
Jaklin Kornfilt
Kornfilt, Jaklin
Jaklin
Kornfilt
Syracuse University
20
linear locality conditions
20
narrow syntax
20
Partial agreement
20
post-syntactic morphology
20
Turkish
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In Turkish nominal phrases and clauses where a coordinated possessor or subject is related to agreement morphology on the possessee or the nominalized predicate, respectively, agreement is realized either in full or in partial expression. The choice between the two is determined in certain cases by syntactic phenomena, suggesting that agreement must figure in syntax. However, partial possessor agreement appears to result from a relationship between the possessee or nominalized predicate, and the last conjunct only, hinting that it is also subject to linear locality conditions. We conclude that the agreement phenomenon in languages results from conditions that apply in syntax proper and from conditions that apply in a post-syntactic component separately, which can alter the output of syntax proper where applicable.
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la.274.13mit
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314
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Chapter 13. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of Pseudo-Coordination
1
A01
Moreno Mitrović
Mitrović, Moreno
Moreno
Mitrović
Leibniz Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin/Bled Institute
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(dynamic) conjunction
20
allosemy
20
compositionality
20
junction
20
parameter
01
There have been very few attempts to date to provide an explicit semantics/pragmatics for Pseudo-Coordination (PseCo) expressions. This chapter is an attempt to fill that gap, zooming in on the ‘go-(and-)get’-type. To do so, I first provide a syntactic account of PseCo, which derives from a standard coordination structure (which I label Junction), onto and from which a compositional semantic account is derived. The signature pragmatic properties of PseCo of negative-emotive factivity are also derived. Aside from providing the first systematic and cross-modular analysis of PseCo, the chapter also provides a number of new diagnostics for identifying and classifying PseCo expressions which may be useful in future work on the topic.
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la.274.14ros
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336
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Chapter
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Chapter 14. Pseudocoordination and Serial Verb Constructions as Multi-Verb Predicates
1
A01
Daniel Ross
Ross, Daniel
Daniel
Ross
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of California
20
complex predicates
20
converbs
20
multi-verb predicates
20
pseudocoordination
20
serial verb constructions
20
typology
01
Verbal pseudocoordination (as in English <i>go and get</i>) is often seen as an idiosyncratic phenomenon described in exceptional terms. This paper establishes the typological context to explain key properties of pseudocoordination, integrated into a more general typology of multi-verb constructions. At the same time, principled motivations are given for the arbitrary list of traditional properties attributed to Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs). The broader category of Multi-Verb Predicates (MVPs) is proposed as any monoclausal multi-verb construction with two verbs forming a complex predicate. Subtypes of MVPs are distinguished by their form: pseudocoordination with a linker ‘and’, while SVCs have no linker. Structural properties of MVPs, such as shared inflectional features on each verb, are readily explained as due to monoclausality.
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la.274.si
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Subject index
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la.274.li
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Language index
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