Joshua on Nov 11th, 2008NPIs in Russian (are another excuse to compare HPSG and GB)
Yesterday’s reading for Syntax Reading Group was Asya Pereltsvaig’s Negative Polarity Items in Russian and the ‘Bagel Problem’, and it was interesting for a lot of the same reason’s that I enjoyed last week’s paper.
Basically, the so-called ‘bagel problem’ is this. There are two (types of) negative polarity items in Russian that are in [...]
Joshua on Nov 3rd, 2008Not Notational Variants (Exactly)
In Syntax Reading Group we’ve been reading Negation in Slavic, a collection of papers on the titular subject. Today’s was The Morphosyntax of Polish Verbal Negation: Towards an HPSG Account by Anna Kupść. It’s an interesting paper because it really hammers home the differences between HPSG and the so-called “Standard Theory.”
There’s an attribution [...]
Joshua on Jun 27th, 2008Talkin’ ’bout my G-g-g-generator
A useful thing for some (other) linguist to do would, I think, be to set up a website for cataloging bad arguments in favor of UG. I’ve just run across a beauty.
I’m writing qualifying papers this summer, some of which are about Syntax, and I thought it might be a good idea to start [...]