5 abril, 2024

Autors:
Urtzi Etxeberria, M.Teresa Espinal & Susagna Tubau
Títol:
Establishing the limits between Polarity Sensitivity, Negative Polarity and Negative ConcordEditorial: Linguistic Typology (de Gruyter)
Data de publicació: 4 d'abril del 2024
Text completIn this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between Polarity Sensitive Items (PSIs) and Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) on the one hand, and between PSIs and Negative Concord items (NCIs) on the other. Based on a number of contrasts that we find, we argue that: (i) if a language has PSIs it does not necessarily have NCIs; (ii) PSIs need to be distinguished from NPIs; (iii) NCIs emerge as a subtype of PSIs, not of NPIs; and (iv) all languages that show Negative Concord (NC) also have Polarity Sensitivity (PS), but the opposite does not hold. We thus postulate that PS is a general phenomenon across languages with Negative Polarity (NPol) and NC as possible subtypes of PS but independent among them, and argue against the standard hypothesis that NC is a special subtype of NPol.
14 maig, 2004

Autors:
Xavier Villalba
Títol:
Diccionari Ballesta de gramàtica generativaEditorial: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions
Col·lecció: Monografies Catalan Journal of Linguistics #1Data de publicació: 2004
Pàgines: 207ISBN13: 8449023513
El Diccionari Ballesta de gramàtic generativa es una versió profundament actualitzada i ampliada del clàssic Diccionari de gramàtica generativo-transformacional de Joan-Manual Ballesta, que pretén donar cabuda a l'ampli cabal terminològic encunyat pels últims models de la gramàtica generativa durant la dècada del noranta, com ara el programa minimista, la teoria de l'optimitat o la morfologia distribuïda. A més de contribuir a la normalització teminològica del camp, aquesta obra constitueix una eina de consulta utilíssima per a lingüistes, estuidants de lingüística, traductors especialitzats i per a qualsevol persona interessada en l'evolució del corrent lingüístic més important de la segona meitat del segle XX: la gramàtica generativa.
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22 maig, 2010

Autors:
Xavier Villalba
Títol:
The Syntax and Semantics of Dislocations in CatalanEditorial: Lambert Academic Publishing
Data de publicació: 2010
Pàgines: 260ISBN13: 978-3-8383-1178-4
Més informacióThis book is the most important attempt to integrate Clitic Right Dislocation into the highly restrictive syntax following from Richard Kayne''s influential Linear Correspondence Axiom. Besides offering a fully-fledged analysis of Clitic Right Dislocation and Clitic Left Dislocation within the strict standards of Kayne''s proposal, the book offers a detailed description of all kinds of left- and right-detachments in Catalan, which includes a thorough discussion of a variegated kind of data, which have only been partially described in the literature. Hence, this book will stand as a major reference for any future research on Romance dislocation constructions.
14 setembre, 2019

Autors:
Xavier Villalba
Títol:
Infinitive Wh-Relatives in Romance: Consequences for the Truncation-versus-Intervention DebateEditorial: Syntax, vol.22:2–3 \\ Double Special Issue: Information Structure, Argument Structure, and Their Interfaces
Data de publicació: Agost de 2019
Més informació
Text completRomance clitic left dislocation is widespread across all kinds of nonroot contexts, but it is forbidden in infinitive wh-relatives. This article investigates the extent and nature of this restriction and the consequences it raises for the truncation and intervention analyses of the left periphery of embedded sentences. We will show that current proposals cannot account for the whole gamut of data. In consequence, we will propose that infinitive wh-relatives display a maximally syncretic left periphery, whereas infinitive wh-interrogatives have a full-fledged left periphery, crucially involving ForceP, because they are selected by a higher predicate. This crucial difference between infinitive relatives and interrogatives will also be shown to be consistent with the existence of specialized complementizers for the former but not the latter.