In recent work we have come to challenge assumptions that we shared (Borschev and Partee 1998a) with Babby (1980) concerning the role of Theme-Rheme structure in accounting for the nominative-genitive alternation in negated existential sentences (the NES construction, in the terms of Babby (1980), the classic work which we are building on). The challenge is exemplified most clearly in our “kefi...

The order of ‘noun and adposition’ is the important parameter of word ordering rules in the world’s languages. The seven parameters, ‘adverb and verb’ and others, have a strong dependence on the ‘noun and adposition’. Japanese as well as Korean, Tamil and several other languages seem to have a stable structure of word ordering rules, as well as Thai and other languages which have the opposite w...

The authors present a tokenizer and nite-state morphological analyzer [Beesley and Karttunen 2003] for Malagasy, based primarily on the discussion of Malagasy morphology in Keenan and Polinsky [1998] and Randriamasimanana [1986]. Words in Malagasy are built from roots by means of a variety of morphological operations such as compounding, afxation and reduplication. The authors analyze product...

This paper examines the syntax and semantics of unaccusative verb wystarczać/wystarczyć ‘to suffice’ in Polish. We argue that this is polysemous. Besides its idiosyncratic meaning suffice’, it may also mean be enough’ or have enough’. The three above-mentioned meanings are associated with different syntactic structures. found nominative argument. second surfaces existential clauses genitive DP ...

Chesser (2013) intended to introduce a justified emendation to Icterus bullockii under Article 32.5.1 of the Code (ICZN 1999), because the name honors both William Bullock, Sr., and William Bullock, Jr. However, the correction bullockorum is "incorrect" and therefore is an unjustified emendation (Article 33.2.3). Under the assumption that the name Bullock was latinized (cf. Article 31.1.1) to B...

This paper proposes elaboration of the Generative Lexicon (GL) in Pustejovsky (1995) and the Extended Generative Lexicon theory (Lenci et al., 2000). My proposal is based on the Japanese genitive postposition no1. The Japanese NP1-no NP2 “NP1-GEN NP2” construction expresses a wider range of relations between two entities than the English possessive NP1’s NP2, such that neither selective binding...

Understanding participles is a major requisite for the NT scholar. This study surveys the many ways participles are used in the Greek NT and the frequency of occurrence of each functional type. Attention is given to the structural patterns involved and the significance of these classifications. Eighteen categories are distinguished, nine of adjectival uses and nine of verbal uses. The special f...