Edith Aldridge
List of John Benjamins publications for which Edith Aldridge plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1606-822X | E-ISSN 2309-5067
Title
Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman
Edited by Kunio Nishiyama, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 250] 2018. xx, 390 pp.
Subjects Morphology | Phonetics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 Syntactic conditions on accusative to ergative alignment change in Austronesian languages Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:2, pp. 214–247 | Article
This paper develops the proposal put forth by Aldridge (2015, 2016) for the emergence of ergative alignment in a first-order subgroup of the Austronesian family. I first provide new evidence for reconstructing Proto-Austronesian (PAn) as accusative rather than ergative. I then propose a… read more
2021 Two types of alignment change in nominalizations: Austronesian and Japanese Diachronic Dimensions of Alignment Typology, Dahl, Eystein (ed.), pp. 314–357 | Article
This paper investigates two instances of alignment change, both of which resulted from reanalysis of a nominalized embedded clause type, in which the external argument was marked with genitive case and the internal argument was focused. We show that a subject marked with genitive case in the… read more
2018 Chapter 8. Resultative and termination: A unified analysis of Middle Chinese VP-YI Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. 157–180 | Chapter
This paper proposes an account of the reanalysis of the Chinese morpheme 已yǐ from an intransitive verb meaning ‘end, terminate’ into a functional category marking completive aspect. We posit that this grammaticalization was triggered by the loss of aspectual affixes, prompting YI to be… read more
2018 Introduction Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics: Studies in honor of John B. Whitman, Nishiyama, Kunio, Hideki Kishimoto and Edith Aldridge (eds.), pp. ix–xi | Chapter
2013 Wh-clefts and verb-initial word order in Austronesian languages Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 71–96 | Article
Wh-questions are formed on clefts in many Austronesian languages, a fact which is generally assumed to be related to their verb-initial basic word order. What is less clear is the precise relationship between verb-initial word order and the cleft strategy for questions. This paper proposes that the… read more
2010 Clitic climbing in archaic Chinese: Evidence for the movement analysis of control Movement Theory of Control, Hornstein, Norbert and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 149–182 | Article
Object pronouns in archaic Chinese negated clauses were required to move out of VP and cliticize to the negator. Cliticization was gradually lost, however, beginning with clitic climbing from embedded clauses. A mysterious exception to the loss of clitic climbing was that raising remained… read more
2010 Directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages Continuity and Change in Grammar, Breitbarth, Anne, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis (eds.), pp. 169–180 | Article
This chapter proposes a diachronic account of VOS and SVO word-order variation in Austronesian languages. I argue that the ‘S’ argument in VOS languages is a topic which moves to an A'-position in the left periphery of the clause. Movement of the topic is followed by fronting of the remnant TP to a… read more