A typology of clause structure

typology of clause linkage : status quo , challenges , prospects

Clitics and Clause Structure

In late Medieval Greek and many modern dialects, pronominal clitics are syntactically adjoined to an IP projection. In another set of dialects they have become syntactically adjoined to a verbal head. In the most innovating dialects (which include Standard Greek) they are agreement affixes. Extending the Fontana/Halpern clitic typology, we propose a trajectory of lexicalization from X clitics v...

In defence of intragenetic typology: evidence from clause coordination in Daghestanian languages

In this study the technique of semantic clause coordination in 20 Daghestanian languages (DLs) is explored. (Semantic) clause coordination is a (usually biclausal) construction activating cognitively conjugate events occurring simultaneously or sequentially. In accordance with that, there is typically coreference between participants of the two clauses, e.g. The boyi beat the girl and Øi went a...

Typology and Logical Structure of Natural Languages

This paper focuses on some relationships between logic and natural languages, a topic that is crucial in Western philosophy (From Aristotle, to medieval Modistae, to Leibniz and the founders of modern mathematical logic). Speciically, the search for a universal grammar is considered in connection with linguistic typology (see Green-berg's Universals of Grammar) and formalisms for knowledge repr...

French Predicate Clitics and Clause Structure*

Although in general we have a reasonably good idea of constituency, we do not have as good an idea of the internal organization of constituents. A substantial amount of recent research has led to the conclusion that in many cases, a much more elaborate internal structure than previously assumed is necessary. Consider for example the internal structure of the NP the destruction of the boat. It w...