Search Results - "Catalan journal of linguistics"

Generative Grammar and the Faculty of Language : Insights, Questions, and Challenges by Chomsky, Noam, Gallego, Ángel J, Ott, Dennis

“…This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We…”
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Some Puzzling Foundational Issues : The Reading Program by Chomsky, Noam

“…This is an annotated transcription of Noam Chomsky's keynote presentation at the University of Reading, in May 2017. Here, Chomsky reviews some foundational…”
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Un acostament a la gramaticalizació basat en la sintaxi de la primera fase: evidències del verb quasicopulatiu espanyol «quedar(se) by Gómez Vázquez, Diana, Mateu, Jaume

“…L’estudi del verb quasicopulatiu del castellà quedar(se) és útil per a entendre com les pressions derivades de la pèrdua d’informació semàntica que no es…”
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Presentation: Semantic Change in Grammaticalization by Martines Peres, Josep, Montserrat Buendia, Sandra, Antolí Martínez, Jordi M.

“…Presentation of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics 23: Semantic Change in Grammaticalization…”
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Presentation by Josep Martines Peres, Sandra Montserrat Buendia, Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

“…Presentation of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics 23: Semantic Change in Grammaticalization…”
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“Bien mirado”: Absolute Clause and Discourse Marker by Cifuentes Honrubia, José Luis

“…This paper analyzes the construction bien mirado as a discursive marker. In the first part, based on the data provided by the CDH and CORPES corpora, we will…”
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The Grammaticalization of Numeral ‘One’ in Slavic: From Quantification to (Non-) Referentiality by Seres, Daria

“…The article presents a corpus-based investigation of the distribution and interpretation of ‘one’ + N combination in six Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian,…”
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The Romance Subjunctive Schema. Grammaticalisations and Constructionalisations in a Comparative CxG Analysis of Spanish, Catalan, French, and Italian by Radatz, Hans-Ingo

“…This article applies the principles of Construction Grammar (CxG) to the problem of describing the various subjunctive-constructions in the Romance languages…”
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The Catalan Epistemic Modal Marker “Pot molt ben ser”: from Emphatic Possibility to High Probability by Massanell i Messalles, Mar

“…In this article I deal with the Catalan epistemic marker pot molt ben ser ‘it may very well be’, which expresses high confidence on the part of the speaker in…”
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Drawing Parallels Between Language Change Processes: Grammaticalization, Constructionalization and Phraseologization by Sánchez-López, Elena

“…Over the last decades, the acknowledgment of the dynamic character of language has led to the focus on language evolution and change. Among the different…”
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A First-Phase Syntax Approach to Grammaticalization: Evidence from the Spanish Pseudo-Copula “Quedar(se)” by Diana Gómez Vázquez, Mateu, Jaume

“…The pseudo-copula quedar(se) <‘end up’ + adjective> in Spanish is used as a test field to understand how the pressures ensuing from the loss of non-syntactic…”
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Light Verbs and Grammaticalization. Evidence From the Catalan Light Verb “Agafar” by Ginebra, Jordi

“…Determining the linguistic nature of light verbs – whether they are lexical or grammatical units – is still an open question. Light verbs are often…”
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“¿Cabe decir algo más?” An Inquiry into the Historical Development of a Modal and Discursive Verbal Periphrasis in Spanish by Garachana, Mar

“…The main objective of this article is to reassess the pivotal role of semantic change within the framework of grammaticalisation and its intricate relationship…”
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Grammaticalization and Diachronic Structural Pattern by Company Company, Concepción

“…The paper posits the hypothesis that if a form or construction entering a process of grammaticalization has a diachronic structural pattern, the…”
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(In)Transitivity, Semantic Change, and Reanalysis: The Diachrony of the Spanish Verb “Volver” by Vatrican, Axelle

“…Our aim in this paper is to explain the progressive semantic change of the Spanish verb volver from the 13th century until the 21st. We will show that at the…”
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Preface: Language Contact in Theoretical Syntax by Ortega-Santos, Iván, Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Edita

“…Preface of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics 22: Language Contact in Theoretical Syntax…”
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Simplification or Complexification: Auxiliary Selection and Anti-agreement Effect in Brazilian Venetan by D’Alessandro, Roberta, Frasson, Alberto

“…In this paper we discuss a change in the auxiliary selectional pattern of Brazilian Venetan, a heritage Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil…”
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English/Spanish Relatives and Their Relative Information Structure: A View from Language Contact in Puerto Rico by Jiménez-Fernández, Ángel L.

“…The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) such as Negative Preposing (NPr) in four types of relative clauses, namely…”
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Parameters and Language Contact: Morphosyntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects by Van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen, Van Koppen, Marjo

“…The central issue addressed in this paper is the formal linguistic notion of parameter as a predictor for the (non-)occurrence of multiple linguistic…”
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Clitic Climbing and Presuppositional Negative Markers in Occitano-Romance Verbal Complexes. Exploring the Crossroads of Micro-Syntactic Phenomena by Llop, Ares, Paradís, Anna

“…In this paper we propose that verbal clusters with restructuring verbs contain a defective embedded clausal boundary. Additionally, this paper constitutes a…”
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