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Deriving the Functional Hierarchy Gillian Ramchand and Peter Svenonius, CASTL, University of Tromsø 1 Introduction. There is a tension between Chomsky’s recent Minimalist theory and the carto- graphic program initiated by Cinque. Cinque’s cartography argues for a large number of fine-grained categories organized in one or more universal Rich Functional Hierarchies (RFH). The subtlety of the eviden
Dinka and the architecture of long-distance extraction Norvin Richards and Coppe van Urk, MIT Summary: Work by Rackowski and Richards (2005) on Tagalog and Den Dikken (2009, 2012) on Hungarian shows that agreement between v and CP is necessary for long-distance extraction. These authors develop proposals in which this agreement allows v to probe into the CP phase, thereby doing away with the need
Morphog-syntactic ransfer in L3 acquisition Morpho-syntactic transfer in L3 acquisition This paper examines with two tests three transfer hypotheses in adult L3 acquisition: (1) Developmentally Moderated Transfer Hypothesis (DMTH) (e.g. Pienemann et al. 2005), where transfer is constraint by the learner’s developmental stage; (2) Full L1 transfer theories (FT1) (e.g. Schwartz & Sprouse 1998), wher
bilingual acquisition Italian-Venetan dialects GLOW Lund 2013 1 On the bilingual acquisition of Italian and Venetan dialects: A focus on subject and object clitic pronouns 1. In this talk, we present data from the bilingual first language acquisition of an Italian child acquiring Italian and a variety of Venetan, the Rosà dialect. His spontaneous productions from the age of 2;0.17 to the age of 3;
Selectivity in L3 transfer: effects of typological and linguistic similarity in the L3 Turkish of Uzbek-Russian bilinguals A sentence such as (1) is scopally ambiguous: It has a surface (see (1a)) and an inverse scope ((1b)) interpretation: (1) Jack didn’t find two guys. a. It is not the case that Jack found two guys. (e.g. Donald found one guy, three guys, no guys, etc.) b. There are two guys tha
The acquisition of reflexives and anticausatives by young heritage bilingual children-3 The acquisition of reflexives and anticausatives by young heritage bilingual German-Turkish and German-Russian children There is much discussion in the literature about whether cross-linguistic transfer due to typological/structural similarities and/or differences occurs in bilingual acquisition (for an overvie
Microsoft Word - abstract GLOW 36.docx 1 The quantificational asymmetry as a language-specific phenomenon Dutch and English are two closely related languages of the Germanic family, yet the acquisition of the Dutch binding principles by Dutch monolingual and Turkish-Dutch bilingual children is different from the acquisition of the English binding principles by English monolingual and Turkish-En
Topic vs. case marking in Japanese and Korean: Comparing heritage speakers and second language learners Heritage speakers (HSs) are subtractive bilinguals natively exposed to a minority language in childhood, but dominant in the societal majority language. Research suggests that HSs show unequal deficits at different levels of linguistic representations; e.g., they have few phonological problems b
A multi-step algorithm for serial order: Converging evidence from Linguistics and Neuroscience Cedric Boeckx1,2 & Anna Martínez-Álvarez2 1 ICREA & 2Universitat de Barcelona The present contribution aims to explore how serial order is computed in the human mind/brain from a biolinguistic perspective (Lenneberg 1967; Chomsky 2005; Di Sciullo et al 2010). To do so, the process of linearization is dec
GLOW abstract (6) Di Sciullo Concepts, Language, and Human Brain Ana M. Suárez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Studies on the relation between language and human cognition have agreed on two interrelated assumptions: (i) some concepts are innate; (ii) language creates some concepts. Developmental psychology has provided arguments to support (i), such as the possession of concepts in human babies, a
GLOW_2013_Constraints_on_Concept_Formation_Jaspers Constraints on Concept Formation Dany Jaspers (CRISSP-HUBrussels, KULeuven) 1. Introduction A limitation on natural concept formation and lexicalisation in natural language has hitherto gone unobserved. To bring it to light and show its relevance to biolinguistics, I will first characterize the nature of this Concept Formation Constraint (CFC) by
Microsoft Word - chesi-moro2012-GLOW.docx Hierarchy and Recursion in the Brain. Cristiano Chesi & Andrea Moro Ne.T.S. - IUSS Center for Neurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax, Pavia 1. Syntax in the brain. Neuroimaging techniques has offered interesting opportunities to deepen our understanding of the relationship between syntax and the brain (Cappa 2012). Two issues appear to be well- establishe
GLOW submission In Defense of the Merge-Only Hypothesis Koji Fujita / Kyoto University In this presentation I defend and further consolidate the “Merge-only” hypothesis of current minimalism (Chomsky 2008, 2010, Berwick 2011, Berwick & Chomsky 2011, inter alia) by proposing a theory of language evolution according to which it was Merge that gave rise to other major components of the human language
1 The Emergent Nature of Parametric Variation Evelina Leivada Universitat de Barcelona One of the key points in the biolinguistic agenda concerns the nature of linguistic (parametric) variation. The relevant literature makes reference to three possible loci: (i) parameters that are part of the mental lexicon by being localized on functional heads (lexical parameters), (ii) parameters that are synt
TSVGLOW 1 The historical reality of biolinguistic diversity Giuseppe Longobardi, Cristina Guardiano^, Luca Bortolussi°, Andrea Sgarro°, Giuseppina Silvestri°*, Andrea Ceolin° Univ. York, ^Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, °Univ. Trieste, *Univ. Pisa Goals. Arguing that the historical application of the biolinguistic model can complement molecular antrhopology to model out a ‘grammatical anthropology
Yang_abtract_Tipping Points Tipping Points Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania The human memory is impressively large and capable of storing detailed linguistic information. These findings raise important questions for the role of the grammar, as what can be stored needn't be computed. But evidence from language acquisition that not only is the grammar necessary, children are extremely adept
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Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightward Movement Jason Overfelt, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1. Introduction. The existence of rightward movement faces at least two serious challenges. First, Ross (1967) argued that it is subject to stricter locality conditions than, for instance, wh- movement. Second, Akmajian (1975) argued that rightward movement is not obviously successive- cyclic in the
Microsoft Word - 2013-lund.doc Variation and the architecture of grammar. Where are parameters? Where is lexicalization? Data. I base my study on Italian dialects, favored by the existence of large corpora of data collected with contemporary formal grammars in mind (Atlante Sintattico Italiano, Padua; Manzini & Savoia 2005). Among the most systematically studied phenomena are those involving perso
1 (Biolinguistic) Primitives Lost in Translation Evelina Leivada 1 & Pedro Tiago Martins 1,2 1 Universitat de Barcelona, 2 Center of Linguistics of the University of Porto Approaching language from a biolinguistic perspective entails adopting a view of Language that is tenable from a biological, neuro-cognitive point of view. Making progress in biolinguistics corresponds to making progress in term
Microsoft Word - GLOW.docx pro as a minimal NP: towards a unified theory of pro-drop Pilar Barbosa (University of Minho, Portugal) In recent years, there has been a return to Perlmutter’s (l971) insight that the implicit subject in the Null Subject Languages (NSL) is a fully specified pronoun that is deleted in PF (cf. Holmberg 2005 and Roberts 2010). This view has been motivated by the observatio
