The article is devoted to the essential issue of historical stylistics German development "nominal" or "substantive" style in Early Upper period (XIV-XVII centuries). research was based on chronicle Worms (XVI century) that represents one most popular genres period. purpose analyze topology and frequency various types genitive definitions a noun text. We distributed nuclear nouns into seven sem...

In German, the subject usually precedes object (SO order), but, under certain discourse conditions, is allowed to precede (OS order). This paper focuses on main clauses in which either or a discourse-given occurs clause-initial position. Two acceptability experiments show that OS sentences with given are generally acceptable, but precise degree of varies both object‘s referential form (demonstr...

Subjects are preferred antecedents for pronominal reference (Mathews and Chodorow, 1988; Hudson-D’Zmura and Tanenhaus, 1997). Many pronoun resolution algorithms account for this by assuming a hierarchy of syntactic prominence with SUBJECTS > OBJECTS. However, for many verbs in English, syntactic role is conflated with semantic role: That is, syntactic SUBJECTS are often semantic AGENTS and so o...

English-speaking children make pronoun case errors producing utterances where accusative pronouns are used in nominative contexts (me do it). We investigate whether complex utterances in the input (Let me do it) might explain the origin of these errors. Longitudinal naturalistic data from seventeen English-speaking two- to four-year-olds was searched for 1psg accusative-for-nominative case erro...

To acquire the meanings of verbs, toddlers make use of the surrounding linguistic information. For example, two-year-olds successfully acquire novel transitive verbs that appear in semantically rich frames containing content nouns ("The boy is gonna pilk a balloon"). But, they have difficulty with pronominal frames ("He is gonna pilk it") (Arunachalam & Waxman, 2010). We hypothesized that adver...

(to appear in probus) Francisco Ordóñez , SUNY Stony Brook, [email protected] Antxon Olarrea, University of Arizona , [email protected] Abstract This paper is a comparative study in the micro-variation of the syntax of interrogatives in Caribbean versus non Caribbean Spanish. In field work done by us, we show that the lack of inversion effects with subjects in Caribbean Spanish o...