Joan Maling
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joan Maling plays a role.
Articles
2014 Non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions: Navigating the typological Kuiper Belt Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, Katz Bourns, Stacey and Lindsy L. Myers (eds.), pp. 17–38 | Article
The passive construction, one of the most scrutinized across varying theoretical and typological perspectives, sometimes gives rise to disagreements among linguists about the membership of particular cases. “Non-promotional” passives are a key example: they lack overt subjects but govern accusative… read more
2013 Nominal categories and the expression of possession: A cross-linguistic study of probabilistic tendencies and categorical constraints Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, Börjars, Kersti, David Denison and Alan K. Scott (eds.), pp. 89–122 | Article
In this cross-linguistic study we present parallels between (a) the stochastic patterns found in corpus studies of English prenominal possessives, and (b) the rule-governed, categorical features of a highly constrained prenominal possessive construction found in some Germanic, Slavic, and Romance… read more
2012 Syntactic change in progress: The Icelandic “New Construction” as an active impersonal Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 249–278 | Article
A new impersonal construction is developing in Icelandic. The New Construction (NC) appears to have passive morphology but differs from canonical passives in that the verbal object remains in situ and gets assigned accusative case. Scholars differ in their assessment of whether the NC is a passive… read more
2010 The Empty Left Edge Condition Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 59–86 | Article
Argument drop is commonly subject to the Empty Left Edge Condition, ELEC, requiring that the left edge of the clause not be spelled out. ELEC can be explained in terms of minimality, as an intervention effect (blocking context-linking of the null-argument). We argue that sensitivity to this effect… read more
2006 From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic Demoting the Agent: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena, Lyngfelt, Benjamin and Torgrim Solstad (eds.), pp. 197–223 | Article