Protosyntax: A thetic (unaccusative) stage?

Unaccusative Behaviors

Unaccusative Mismatches in Japanese'

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Revisiting the Thetic/Categorical Distinction in Japanese

In this study, I propose a refinement of Kuroda’s (1972, 1990) claim that the categorical and thetic judgments are realized syntactically in Japanese. Succinctly put, Kuroda argues that sentences with the topic marker wa represent categorical judgments whereas those with the nominative marker ga represent thetic judgments. In the present study, I demonstrate that wa-sentences do not uniformly r...

Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction in Turkish: A Connectionist Approach

This study presents a novel computational approach to the analysis of unaccusative/unergative distinction in Turkish by employing feed-forward artificial neural networks with a backpropagation algorithm. The findings of the study reveal correspondences between semantic notions and syntactic manifestations of unaccusative/unergative distinction in this language, thus presenting a computational a...

Thetic Judgment from the Wissenschaftslehre to Brentano

It is not usual to think of Fichte as a logician, nor indeed to think of him as leaving a legacy that shaped the subsequent history of symbolic logic. But I argue here that there is such a legacy, and that Fichte formulated an agenda in formal logic that his students (and their students in turn) used to spark a logical revolution. That revolution arguably reached its culmination in the logical ...