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In this paper I show that the different case marking possibilities on predicate adjectives in depictive secondary predicates in Russian constitute the uninterpretable counterpart of the interpretable tense and aspect features of the adjective. Case agreement entails that the predicate adjective is non-eventive, i.e., it occurs when the event time of the secondary predicate is identical to the event time of the primary predicate. The instrumental case, however, entails that the secondary predicate is eventive: some change of state or transition occurred prior to or during the event time of the primary predicate. I claim that case agreement occurs in conjoined tense phrases in Russian, while the instrumental case occurs in adjoined aspectual phrases. In English, secondary predication is sensitive both to the structural location of its antecedent and to the event structure of the primary predicate. I suggest that depictives with subject antecedents in English are true adjunction structures, while those with direct object antecedents occur in a conjoined aspectual phrase. This hypothesis finds support in the different movement and semantic constraints in conjunction versus adjunction phrases in both English and Russian.
This chapter examines the meaning of the term 'aperire' ('to open') in the schools of the twelfth century and within early scholastic thought. It argues for a shift from a traditional understanding of opening as a revelation received from God, towards a more technical definition of opening as applying dialectical logic to a text. The act of opening was employed polemically, both in debates between scholastic masters and to distinguish Christian from Jewish exegetical practices.
In this paper I investigate the properties of the copula-like verb 'ficar' in Brazilian Portuguese using Pustejovsky's generative lexicon (GL). The verb 'ficar' can be translated as 'stay' or 'become', depending on its complement. With locatives, only the STAY reading is possible. With adjectival complements, both BECOME and STAY readings are possible. I propose that 'ficar' takes an eventuality as its complement and I argue that there is no need to create multiple lexical entries for it, since the readings are the result of the possible combinations between the transition denoted by 'ficar' and the properties of the stative complements.
I argue that the BECOME reading with adjectival predicates is the result of combining part of the qualia of the adjectival predicate with the TRANSITION of 'ficar'. The STAY readings of 'ficar'+adjective are the result of shadowing the transition. In the case of 'ficar'+locative, the BECOME reading is unavailable. Departing from the hypothesis that subevents have to be linked to arguments in order to be able to be modified by certain types of modifiers or be selected by certain types of heads, I argue that the transition, in the case of locative complements, is not associated to any argument because nothing in the qualia of the locative complement is compatible with a transition, given that there is not motion component in either 'ficar' or the locative. Unlinked to any argument, the TRANSITION can only be part of the 'constant' meaning of the verb, which explains why it is not available for modification.
This paper revisits the question of whether propositions in situation semantics must be persistent (Kratzer (1989)). It shows that ignoring persistence causes empirical problems to theories which use quantification over minimal situations as a solution for donkey anaphora (Elbourne (2005)), while at the same time modifying these theories to incorporate persistence makes them incompatible with the use of situations for contextual restriction (Kratzer (2004)).
Sophie-C. Hartisch untersucht die Funktion der Konstellationsmetapher im Diskurs der geisteswissenschaftlichen Selbstbeschreibungen im frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Die doppelte Grundlagenkrise sowohl der Naturwissenschaften als auch der historisch arbeitenden Geisteswissenschaften bewirken in ihren Augen die Attraktivität eines Denkens in 'Konstellationen'. Mit der (streng genommen) falschen Suggestion eines sogenannten 'Sternbildes' würden abstrakte Strukturen vermeintlich anschaulich und könne Totalität als "Kippfigur zwischen Werden und Darstellung" repräsentiert werden, die die Ganzes-Teil-Problematik neu konfiguriere. Zwar verspreche die 'Konstellation', die Geisteswissenschaften mittels einer Anlehnung an die Astronomie gegen die zeitgenössischen Naturwissenschaften zu profilieren. Allerdings ist die für die Konstellation zentrale Kategorie der 'Bedeutsamkeit' (der Sterne) keine astronomische, sondern eine astrologische Vorstellung. Die als Pseudowissenschaft verpönte Astrologie wird in den Geisteswissenschaften unter der Hand zum Garanten für die Legitimität und Objektivität historisch ausgerichteter Wissenschaften.
This paper demonstrates that there are no empirical and theoretical motivations for regarding verbal predicate focus constructions as (diachronically) derived from cleft constructions. Instead, it is argued that predicate fronting for the purpose of focus or topic is comparable to verb (phrase) fronting structures in other languages (e.g., Germanic). The proposed analysis further indicates that related doubling strategies observed in certain languages are the consequences of parallel chains that license the fronted verb (phrase) in the left periphery, and the Agree-tense-aspect features inside the proposition.
When we pay close attention to the prosody of Wh-questions in Japanese, we discover many novel and interesting empirical puzzles that would require us to devise a much finer syntactic component of grammar. This paper addresses the issues that pose some problems to such an elaborated grammar, and offers solutions, making an appeal to the information structure and sentence processing involved in the interpretation of interrogative and focus constructions.
In this paper I would like to show that the principles which have been proposed so far to account for the relationship between the informational level and the syntactic level in a Chinese utterance are unable to predict some interesting and regular facts of that language.
To my mind, the form and the position of the question operator in an interrogative utterance provide two distributional tests which univocally indicate where the new information lies. Hence, the pairing of affirmative and interrogative sentences might be a better approach to locate where the new information lies in a Chinese utterance.
This short essay offers thoughts on bell hooks's use of the list form in the phrase 'white supremacist capitalist patriarchy'. While this list suggests that the social forces it contains work together in one unified direction, we can also look to instances in which they pull in opposing directions. However, the function of the list may not be to faithfully map the complexities of social life, but, rather, in its reduction and simplicity, to enable us to believe that social transformation is possible.
Who's afraid of ideology?
(2023)
Artist Marwa Arsanios shares textual fragments from research she conducted for the first and second parts of a video trilogy titled "Who's Afraid of Ideology?" Meditating on the voiding effects of war, and the ecological and affective texture of communal resistance and eco-feminist praxis as they emerge in Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon, and northern Syria, the text takes us to ecological milieux made of wild medicinal plants, fig trees, Kurdish guerrillas, and farmers in a women-only commune.
The expressions few and a few are typically considered to be separate quantifiers. I challenge this assumption, showing that with the appropriate definition of few, a few can be derived compositionally as a + few. The core of the analysis is a proposal that few has a denotation as a one-place predicate which incorporates a negation operator. From this, argument interpretations can be derived for expressions such as few students and a few students, differing only in the scope of negation. I show that this approach adequately captures the interpretive differences between few and a few. I further show that other such pairs are blocked by a constraint against the vacuous application of a.
Sperber and Wilson (1996) and Wilson and Sperber (1993) have argued that communication involves two processes, ostension and inference, but they also assume there is a coding-decoding stage of communication and a functional distinction between lexical items and grammatical marking (what they call 'conceptual' vs. 'procedural' information). Sperber and Wilson have accepted a basically Chomskyan view of the innateness of language structure and Universal Grammar.
While both Japanese and English have a grammatic al form denoting the progressive, the two forms (te-iru & be+ing) interact differently with the inherent semantics of the verb to which they attach (Kindaichi, 1950; McClure, 1995; Shirai, 2000). Japanese change of state verbs are incompatible with a progressive interpretation, allowing only a resultative interpretation of V+ te-iru, while a progressive interpretation is preferred for activity predicates. English be+ing denotes a progressive interpretation regardless of the lexical semantics of the verb. The question that arises is how we can account for the fact that change of state verbs like dying can denote a progressive interpretation in English, but not in Japanese. While researchers such as Kageyama (1996) and Ogihara (1998, 1999) propose that the difference lies in the lexical semantics of the verbs themselves, others such as McClure (1995) have argued that the difference lies in the semantics of the grammatical forms, be+ing and te-iru. We present results from an experimental study of Japanese learners’ interpretation of the English progressive which provide support for McClure’s proposal. Results indicate that independent of verb type, learners had significantly more difficulty with the past progressive. We argue that knowledge of L2 semantics-syntax correspondences proceeds not on the basis of L1 lexical semantic knowledge, but on the basis of grammatical forms.
Susanne Klimroths Beitrag widmet sich den Texten zu Oskar Kokoschkas Alma-Mahler-Puppe und stellt den fiktionalisierten Status insbesondere der eigenen Schilderungen der 'Puppenepisode' des doppelbegabten Künstlers heraus. Sie argumentiert für eine Widerspenstigkeit sowohl der Materialität der Puppe als auch der Überlieferung der literarisierten Puppe.
Die Rede von einer ‚Berliner Frühromantik’ ist falsch, wenn damit das ‚Athenaeum’ der Berliner Salonkultur angegliedert und die frühromantische Forderung nach Urbanität mit der zeitgenössischen Berliner Wirklichkeit verbunden werden sollen. Das ‚Athenaeum’ ist vielmehr ein Zeugnis akademisch gelehrter Schriftsteller, deren eigene Formen der Geselligkeit – die Berliner Wohngemeinschaft und der gemeinsame Jenaer Hausstand – nichts mit großstädtischer Salonkultur zu tun haben, sondern ganz im Gegenteil homogene Exklusivgemeinschaften sind: ein einseitiger, enger Umgang, müsste man mit Nicolai und Garve sagen, der das kleinstädtische Risiko trägt, sich an sich selbst zu ermüden und zu frustrieren. So ist es dann ja auch gekommen.
Die meisten Maler und Zeichner der Romantik haben von den in dem erzählten Märchen wachgerufenen Innenbildern berichtet und von ihnen bei ihrer Arbeit profitiert. [...] Bekanntlich rehabilitieren die romantischen Künstler nicht nur die erzählenden volkstümlichen Gattungen, die Legende, das Märchen, die Anekdote und das Volksbuch, sondern auch die volkstümlichen Formen der bildenden Kunst: die Scherenschnitte, die Silhouetten,
die Schattenrisse etc. [...]
Den Menschen als Abbild Gottes aufzufassen, war mehr als nur eine theologische Richtungsentscheidung im spätantiken Europa. Sie betraf auch die Literatur. Grundsätzlicher als bisher von den Literaturgeschichten in den Blick genommen, ist die Bedeutung der christlichen Anthropologie für die europäische Literatur – das ist die These, die hier plausibilisiert werden soll. Doch nicht so, als dass diese europäische Literatur seit der Spätantike einfach christlich in ihren Themen noch in ihren Formen geworden wäre. Das ist sie sicherlich auch vielfach der Fall, man denke nur an die Durchsetzung etwa des Codex anstelle der Buchrolle, der Entfaltung neuer Gattungen wie der Legenden oder christlicher Moralvorstellung in den Büchern von Sebastian Brant bis Dostojewski. Vielmehr so, dass die europäische Literatur eine andere geworden ist, weil sie sich mit der christlichen Auffassung vom Menschen als Abbild Gottes auseinanderzusetzen hatte. Denn diese Lehre stellt die Literatur und andere Künste grundsätzlich in Frage, eben weil sie den Menschen so radikal in Frage stellt.
Tief im Osten, gleichsam „am Rande der Welt“, in der Republik Burjatien (Russische Föderation), hinter dem Baikalsee gelegen und viele tausend Kilometer von europäischen Großstädten entfernt, hat der Erwerb der deutschen Sprache einen hohen Stellenwert – insbesondere für Deutschlehrer, Deutschlehrerausbilder und Deutschstudierende.
This paper examines whether gender features (masculine, feminine, neuter) in German have to be interpreted semantically, along their specific gender, or whether they allow for a gender unrelated interpretation. As to this, two experiments with two different classes of nouns (gender marked and sex marked nouns vs. gender marked and sex neutral nouns) were conducted. The first experiment supports the view that in their function as nominal predicates masculine nouns, contrary to feminine (and neuter) nouns, have the widest extension – which confirms the existence of a ‘Generic Masculine’ (Generisches Maskulinum). On the other hand, the second experiment shows that in their function as subjects masculine nouns, contrary to feminine (and neuter) nouns, are the least flexible agreement controllers – hardly allowing for gender mismatches. Thus, masculine nouns behave differently depending on whether they appear as controllers/sources of agreement or as targets of agreement. The findings are supplemented by corpus data.
Ein wichtiger Ausgangspunkt der Tagung war das lnteresse an der aktuellen Situation "des deutschen Buches" und an der materiellen Zukunft der gedruckten Überlieferung in Deutschland. Dieser Ausgangspunkt wurde in der abschließenden Podiumsdiskussion noch einmal ausdrücklich aufgegriffen. Die wichtigsten Statements sind im folgenden wiedergegeben. [...] [Die Moderation fragte] die Gesprächsteilnehmer insbesondere nach den spezifischen Möglichkeiten von Organisationen der Wissenschaftsförderung bzw. nach denen der staatlichen Seite, um praktische Fortschritte bei der Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts zu unterstützen. Die Bibliotheken und Archive allein seien mit dieser Aufgabe überfordert. Die Anregung der Kultusministerkonferenz aus den neunziger Jahren, ein Prozent der Erwerbungsmittel für Aufgaben der Bestandserhaltung einzusetzen, reiche nicht aus und führe angesichts der rückläufigen Erwerbungsetats zu immer unbedeutenderen Beträgen.