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Kanté, Issa. "Comme le montre X : une construction polyfonctionnelle — interface syntaxe-sémantique." SHS Web of Conferences 78 (2020): 12015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20207812015.
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S’appuyant sur un corpus unilingue français et un corpus de traduction français-anglais, cette étude examine la construction comme le montre X. La question est de savoir dans quelle mesure elle constitue non seulement une opération discursive de légitimation et de justification par analogie, mais peut également impliquer une dimension de défocalisation ou focalisation de l’entité cognitive responsable du procès exprimé par le verbe montrer. Les possibilités d’agencement relationnel entre le sujet agentif et le moyen utilisé pour montrer que P offrent à l’énonciateur différentes perspectives de « mise en scène » syntaxique. Peut ainsi être mis au-devant de la scène un référent inanimé (le moyen) à la place du sujet réel (c.-à-d. l’entité humaine responsable du procès). De fait, cette dernière se trouve soit occultée ou simplement reléguée à l’arrière-plan au profit du moyen, qui lui est promu au rang de sujet du verbe montrer. Dans la deuxième partie de l’article, l’analyse contrastive permet d’une part d’identifier dans un corpus parallèle les équivalences de traduction de comme le montre X en anglais, et d’autre part de comprendre si et comment le statut fonctionnel de mise en relief et de légitimation de cette construction apparaît dans la traduction.
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Al-Thubaiti, Kholoud A. "Selective vulnerability in very advanced L2 grammars: Evidence from VPE constraints." Second Language Research 35, no. 2 (January 31, 2018): 225–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658317751577.
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This study examines whether the second language acquisition (L2A) of syntactic properties at the interfaces is problematic for L2 learners. English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) was tested as an interface property which involves feature interpretability. Two subtle contrasts of VPE at different grammar-internal interfaces were examined: (a) copula be and lexical verb ellipsis at the syntax–lexicon interface (*John is here, and Mary will too vs. John slept, and Mary will too), and (b) progressive be and perfective have stranding at the syntax–semantics interface (*John slept, and Mary was too vs. Peter saw your parents last week, but he hasn’t since). Unlike (a), the contrast in (b) requires identifying (un)interpretable features on -ing and -en to recover the semantics of the elided material. Since Saudi Arabic does not license VPE, (very-)advanced English L2 speakers whose first language (L1) is Saudi Arabic were tested. The results from a bimodal timed acceptability judgment task showed they were more target-like on the contrast at the syntax–lexicon interface than they were on the syntax–semantics interface. They particularly deviated from target-like judgments on have stranding which requires recognizing the perfective uninterpretable feature on - en. These results suggest selective vulnerability at grammar-internal interfaces whenever uninterpretable features are involved.
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Zhao, Lucy Xia. "Interpretation of Chinese overt and null embedded arguments by English-speaking learners." Second Language Research 28, no. 2 (April 2012): 169–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658312437629.
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It has been proposed that external interfaces are vulnerable to residue optionality, whereas pure syntax and internal interfaces are acquirable in second language (L2) acquisition (Sorace, 2005, 2011; Sorace and Filiaci, 2006). The proposal was tested in this article through the interpretation of overt and null embedded arguments in L2 Chinese grammars. The article identifies two types of null elements in Chinese: Øziji and Øtopic. Øziji is a purely syntactic category, whereas Øtopic is a syntax–discourse interface category. Being a D-pronoun, ta ‘he/him’ can refer to either the matrix subject or a discourse entity in the embedded argument position. Its interpretation involves lexicon–syntax and syntax–semantics internal interfaces. Results from a picture judgment task showed that external interfaces were acquired as well as pure syntax and internal interfaces, which supports the claims of Ivanov, 2009; Iverson et al., 2008; Kraš, 2008; Rothman, 2007, 2009; Slabakova and Ivanov, 2011. In addition, Øtopic was acquired at different states in different sentence positions. This supports the claim that interface categories should not be considered holistically (Yuan, 2010). The article further speculates that cross-linguistic influence and the nature of the possible positive evidence may have contributed to the difference here in terms of representation and/or processing.
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Dugarova, Esuna. "Russian speakers’ L2 Chinese acquisition of wh-topicalization at the syntax–discourse interface." Second Language Research 30, no. 4 (September 23, 2014): 411–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658313516974.
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In recent second language (L2) research it has been proposed that unlike linguistic phenomena pertaining to internal interfaces, those at external interfaces pose greater difficulty to adult L2 learners and may not be fully acquired. It has further been pointed out that such problematic acquisition at the interface level should not be attributed to the entire interface and requires a more nuanced examination, and this is what the current article aims to provide. An empirical study reported here investigates whether Russian-speaking learners are able to acquire Chinese wh-topicalization that lies at the syntax–discourse interface, an instance of the external interface. The results indicate that although very advanced Russian speakers can acquire wh-topicalization in their L2 Chinese, the ability of wh-elements to topicalize in Russian–Chinese interlanguage grammars seems to be determined by an internal structure underlying Chinese wh-elements, and this is likely to be a variable that affects the linguistic behaviour at the interface level in the L2.
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Root, Robert W., and Annette Canby. "There's More to Direct Manipulation than meets the Eye." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 32, no. 5 (October 1988): 278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128803200507.
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The term “direct manipulation” (or DM) often evokes images of interfaces which are intuitive, obvious, and easy to learn. We conducted an experiment to determine whether subjects could learn to use a DM interface without instruction, i.e., whether they could learn the interface syntax on their own merely by inspection and exploration of the interface. The research vehicle was a prototype DM applicationdesigned to allow end users to customize a telecommunications application. Three variations of the interface were created by manipulating elements of the DM syntax, specifically, moded operations and rules about selectingobjects before acting on them. Subjects carried out a set of five tasks in the presence of an experimenter, who was allowed to provide structured help when the subject could not make further progress. Results indicated that the syntax manipulations affected both the number and type of user errors and the amount of help needed to complete the tasks: the use of modes and selection rules significantly interfered with learning, and only four subjects out of thirty were able to perform the complete set of tasks without experimenter assistance. We also found, however, that more than half of the errors made by subjects were not directly related to syntax manipulations. These errors appear to stem more from conceptual problems, i.e., mismatches between the user's developing model of the interface and the model instantiated by the interface designer in the rules of interaction. These conceptual problems were observed across syntax manipulations and represent a significant portion of user's difficulties in learning the interface. Thus, our results shed light on the relationship between interface syntax, learning and usability in the DM paradigm, but they also point out the need for a cognitive account of the processes by which users acquire knowledge of interface characteristics and how that knowledge is related to interface design elements.
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Donaldson, Bryan. "Nativelike right-dislocation in near-native French." Second Language Research 27, no. 3 (April 18, 2011): 361–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658310395866.
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Recent research on advanced and near-native second-language (L2) speakers has focused on the acquisition of interface phenomena, for example at the syntax—pragmatics interface. Proponents of the Interface Hypothesis (e.g. Sorace, 2005; Sorace and Filiaci, 2006; Tsimpli and Sorace, 2006; Sorace and Serratrice, 2009) argue that (external) interfaces present difficulties for L2 grammars, resulting in permanent deficits even in near-native grammars. Other research, however, has argued that interfaces are acquirable, albeit with delays (Ivanov, 2009; Rothman, 2009). This study examines right-dislocation (RD) in experimental and production data from near-native French. Right-dislocation marks topic in discourse and thus requires the integration of syntactic and discourse—pragmatic knowledge. Participants were 10 near-native speakers of French who learned French after age 10 and whose grammatical competence was comparable to the near-native speakers of French in Birdsong (1992), and 10 French native speakers. The data come from two experimental tasks and an 8.5-hour corpus of spontaneous informal dyadic conversations. The near-natives demonstrated nativelike judgments, preferences, and use of RD in authentic discourse. Only one near-native displayed evidence of first-language (L1) transfer, which resulted in non-nativelike use of RD. On the whole, the results suggest nativelike acquisition of this area of the syntax—pragmatics interface and fail to provide support for the Interface Hypothesis.
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LOZANO, CRISTÓBAL, and AMAYA MENDIKOETXEA. "Interface conditions on postverbal subjects: A corpus study of L2 English." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 13, no. 4 (September 1, 2010): 475–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728909990538.
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This paper investigates how syntactic knowledge interfaces with other cognitive systems by analysing the production of postverbal subjects, V(erb)–S(ubject) order, in an L1 Spanish–L2 English corpus and a comparable English native corpus. VS order in both native and L2 English is shown to be constrained by properties operating at three interfaces: (i) lexicon–syntax: the verb is unaccusative (Unaccusative Hypothesis); (ii) syntax–discourse: the subject is focus (End-Focus Principle) and (iii) syntax–phonology: the subject is heavy (End-Weight Principle). We show that, since learners produce VS under the same interface conditions as native speakers, unaccusativity is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for VS production. However, learners overproduce VS and make persistent errors in their syntactic encoding. Our findings support recent proposals that these difficulties stem from problems at coordinating syntactic knowledge with knowledge from other external systems, but they suggest that the nature of such difficulties is not external to the syntax.
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Roggia, Aaron B. "An investigation of unaccusativity and word order in Mexican Spanish." Spanish in Context 15, no. 1 (May 31, 2018): 77–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.00004.rog.
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Abstract Studies of unaccusativity and word order in Spanish have yielded conflicting results. This study further investigates unaccusativity by testing the ability of the ‘Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy’ (Sorace 2000) to account for word orders with intransitive predicates in Mexican Spanish. The results of an oral production task show significant word order differences between verb categories and locate an unergative/unaccusative cutoff point midway along the hierarchy, situating unaccusativity in Spanish as being similar to Italian but trending in the direction of Dutch or French. Other variables affecting the word order are identified and ranked, including subject heaviness, definiteness, and the location of adverbial phrases. Greater inter-speaker variation at the syntax-discourse interface when compared with the syntax-lexicon interface shows that the Interface Hypothesis has application to native speakers of Spanish. The results of this study are important for current research on unaccusativity and syntactic interfaces.
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Larkin, Henry. "A framework for programmatically designing user interfaces in JavaScript." International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications 11, no. 3 (September 7, 2015): 254–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpcc-03-2015-0014.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of creating a declarative user interface language suitable for rapid prototyping of mobile and Web apps. Moreover, this paper presents a new framework for creating responsive user interfaces using JavaScript. Design/methodology/approach – Very little existing research has been done in JavaScript-specific declarative user interface (UI) languages for mobile Web apps. This paper introduces a new framework, along with several case studies that create modern responsive designs programmatically. Findings – The fully implemented prototype verifies the feasibility of a JavaScript-based declarative user interface library. This paper demonstrates that existing solutions are unwieldy and cumbersome to dynamically create and adjust nodes within a visual syntax of program code. Originality/value – This paper presents the Guix.js platform, a declarative UI library for rapid development of Web-based mobile interfaces in JavaScript.
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VUJASINOVIC, MARKO, EDWARD BARKMEYER, NENAD IVEZIC, and ZORAN MARJANOVIC. "INTEROPERABLE SUPPLY-CHAIN APPLICATIONS: MESSAGE METAMODEL-BASED SEMANTIC RECONCILIATION OF B2B MESSAGES." International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 19, no. 01n02 (March 2010): 31–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218843010002103.
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Supply-chain applications exchange numerous electronic business-to-business (B2B) messages of varied types. Traditionally, prior to a message exchange, partners adopt one particular message specification that constrains message structure and syntax to implement compatible application message interfaces. However, in open, dynamic supply-chains, the applications need to interact even though their message interfaces are based on different, yet incompatible message specifications. To achieve such interactions, we propose the Message Metamodel-based semantic reconciliation of B2B messages. The Message Metamodel is a novel, ontological form that provides for common representation of B2B message specifications and messages of various syntaxes, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). The experimental investigation showed that proposed semantic reconciliation architecture built atop the Message Metamodel (1) insulates the reconciliation activities from the specific message syntaxes, (2) supports the reconciliation of messages irrespective of message standards used, and (3) enables seamless interoperable message exchange between heterogeneous supply-chain applications.
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Bennett, Ryan, and Emily Elfner. "The Syntax–Prosody Interface." Annual Review of Linguistics 5, no. 1 (January 14, 2019): 151–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012503.
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This article provides an overview of current and historically important issues in the study of the syntax–prosody interface, the point of interaction between syntactic structure and phrase-level phonology. We take a broad view of the syntax–prosody interface, surveying both direct and indirect reference theories, with a focus on evaluating the continuing prominent role of prosodic hierarchy theory in shaping our understanding of this area of linguistics. Specific topics discussed in detail include the identification of prosodic domains, the universality of prosodic categories, the recent resurgence of interest in the role of recursion in prosodic structure, crosslinguistic variation in syntax–prosody mapping, prosodic influences on syntax and word order, and the influence of sentence processing in the planning and shaping of prosodic domains. We consider criticisms of prosodic hierarchy theory in particular, and provide an assessment of the future of prosodic hierarchy theory in research on the syntax–prosody interface.
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Hackl, Martin. "The syntax–semantics interface." Lingua 130 (June 2013): 66–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2013.01.010.
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Spencer, Andrew. "The morphology–syntax interface." Journal of Linguistics 29, no. 1 (March 1993): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700000086.
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Méaux, Danièle. "La photographie : medium d’une exploration du logement, espaces de syntaxes domestiques provisoires." Interfaces, no. 44 (December 15, 2020): 79–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.1607.
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Teixeira, Joana. "Divergência seletiva no estádio final de aquisição de L2: Dados sobre a construção com there em inglês." Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, no. 4 (November 22, 2019): 254–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.26334//2183-9077/rapln4ano2018a44.
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This study investigates the acquisition of there-constructions (with verbs other than be) in L2 English by native speakers of European Portuguese (EP) and French. Its main purpose is to test two opposing hypotheses on the end-state of L2 acquisition at the interfaces: the Interface Hypothesis (IH) and the L1+input Hypothesis (LIH). The former proposes that internal interfaces are, generally, unproblematic at the end-state of L2 acquisition, whereas external interfaces, like the syntax-discourse interface, are areas of permanent optionality due to processing inefficiencies associated with bilingualism. The latter, in contrast, advocates that structures at external interfaces generate problems at a near-native level iff their properties are different in the L1 and the L2 and they are infrequent in the input. By administering 2 untimed drag and drop tasks, 3 speeded acceptability judgement tasks and 1 syntactic priming task to a total of 80 participants, we tested the types of overt expletives, the types of intransitive verbs and the types of discourse contexts compatible with thereconstructions in advanced and near-native English. The results confirm the IH, but suggest that the LIH is not completely wrong.
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Teixeira, Joana. "Divergência seletiva no estádio final de aquisição de L2: Dados sobre a construção com there em inglês." Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, no. 4 (October 15, 2018): 254–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln4ano2018a44.
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This study investigates the acquisition of there-constructions (with verbs other than be) in L2 English by native speakers of European Portuguese (EP) and French. Its main purpose is to test two opposing hypotheses on the end-state of L2 acquisition at the interfaces: the Interface Hypothesis (IH) and the L1+input Hypothesis (LIH). The former proposes that internal interfaces are, generally, unproblematic at the end-state of L2 acquisition, whereas external interfaces, like the syntax-discourse interface, are areas of permanent optionality due to processing inefficiencies associated with bilingualism. The latter, in contrast, advocates that structures at external interfaces generate problems at a near-native level iff their properties are different in the L1 and the L2 and they are infrequent in the input. By administering 2 untimed drag and drop tasks, 3 speeded acceptability judgement tasks and 1 syntactic priming task to a total of 80 participants, we tested the types of overt expletives, the types of intransitive verbs and the types of discourse contexts compatible with thereconstructions in advanced and near-native English. The results confirm the IH, but suggest that the LIH is not completely wrong.
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Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro, and Theodoros Marinis. "Acquiring phenomena at the syntax/semantics interface in L2 Spanish." EUROSLA Yearbook 7 (August 10, 2007): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.7.06gui.
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Recent second language (L2) acquisition research has proposed that purely syntactic features are easier to acquire and less vulnerable than ones involving the interfaces (Sorace, 2004; Serratrice et al. 2004). The present paper addresses this issue by investigating the acquisition of the Spanish personal preposition a in English L2 learners of Spanish. The distribution of a in direct object NPs relates to the specificity/definiteness of the NP, the animacy/agentivity of the subject, and verb semantics (Torrego 1998; Zagona 2002). 33 English L2 learners of Spanish of different proficiency levels, and 14 Spanish controls participated in an acceptability judgement task. The results showed significant differences between native speakers and L2 learners of all proficiency levels, who performed at chance, and support the claim that L2 learners have difficulties acquiring structures involving the syntax/semantics interface. However, the advanced learners showed sensitivity to the least complex condition providing evidence that interface phenomena may be acquirable.
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Åfarli, Tor A., and Kristin M. Eide. "Predication at the interface." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 26 (January 1, 2001): 35–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.26.2001.137.
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We try to show that predication plays a greater role in syntax than commonly assumed. Specifically, we wil argue that predication to a large extent determines both the phrase structure of clauses and trigger syntactic processes that take place in clauses. If we are on the right path, this implies that syntax is basically semantically driven, given that predication is semantically construed.
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Hamed Shoay Saleh Al-Mogarry. "Syntax Semantics Interface and Translation." Albaydha University Journal 4, no. 1 (April 19, 2022): 144–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.56807/buj.v4i1.239.
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تهدف هذه الدراسة الى دراسة نقطة الاتصال والتداخل بين علم النحو وعلم الدلالة في اللغتين العربية والانجليزية وبالأخص دراسة تطبيقات منهج النحو التوليدي التحويلي لتشومسكي ومنهج الوظائف الموضوعية لفيل مور في بعض الجمل الانجليزية كنص أصل وترجمتها الى اللغة العربية كنص هدف من خلال التحليل النحوي والدلالي. اوضحت الدراسة وجود اتصال وتداخل بين علم النحو وعلم الدلالة في كلتا اللغتين. واثبتت الدراسة ايضا امكانية استخدام منهج ثنائي في التحليل اللغوي ودراسة العلاقة بين أي لغتين. كما اشارت الدراسة بان التحليل المستند الى علم النحو والدلالة يمكن ان يشكل عاملا مساعدا للمترجم من الانجليزية الى العربية والعكس.
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This study attempts to investigate the interface between syntax and semantics in English and Arabic. It is to study the potential implications of Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG) and thematic roles in translation from a linguistic point of view. It presents a theoretical background of TGG and thematic roles as the basis of the analysis applied on certain English sentences from three different texts along with their Arabic translations. Those sentences and their Arabic translations are analyzed syntactically according to Chomsky's TGG (1965) and semantically to Fillmore's thematic roles (1977). The results of the study show that there is some kind of interface within these languages in terms of syntax and semantics. This emphasizes the idea of linguistic universals by Chomsky. The application of co-analysis showed that those syntactic and semantic aspects can be relatively similar in English and Arabic particularly in terms of the type of the NPs in the deep and surface structures and semantic roles.
The study concludes that translation is a practical field where the feasibility and utility of linguistic theories and ideas can be tested, and integration and application of more than one approach in translation e.g. TGG analysis and semantic roles can help in producing more appropriate translations. However, it should be stated that syntax semantics interface and its overlapping can't be solely used in translation studies.
Key Words: Syntax- Semantics- Interface- Translation- analysis- implications.
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SLABAKOVA, ROUMYANA, and MARÍA DEL PILAR GARCÍA MAYO. "The L3 syntax–discourse interface." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 18, no. 2 (July 24, 2013): 208–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728913000369.
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This article considers the acquisition of three English syntax–discourse interface constructions: Topicalization, Focus Fronting and Left Dislocation. We use data from Basque–Spanish bilinguals learning English as a third language (L3) as a test case for the Interface Hypothesis (IH, Sorace, 2011). The IH has made specific predictions about second language (L2) acquisition and such predictions can be extrapolated to L3 on the basis of interface delay explanations. Thirty contexts and embedded test sentences with and without pronouns were used; participants had to rate the acceptability of each audio stimulus sentence in the context on a seven-point scale. We tested Basque–Spanish bilinguals dominant in Basque (n = 23), Basque–Spanish bilinguals dominant in Spanish (n = 24), Spanish L2 English learners (n = 39) as well as native English speakers (n = 24). Findings provide evidence against current L3 acquisition models and potential arguments for both cumulative enhancement as well as cumulative inhibition as possible processes in L3 acquisition.
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Van Valin, Robert D. "Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface." Linguistische Berichte (LB) 2008, no. 213 (January 1, 2008): 115–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.46771/2366077500213_6.
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Gómez Soler, Inmaculada. "Beyond interfaces." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4, no. 4 (December 8, 2014): 494–525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.4.4.04gom.
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By analyzing the empirical data from two experiments that test Spanish psych-verb properties (e.g. gustar ‘to like’), this article assesses the empirical adequacy of the Interface Hypothesis (IH), which claims that external interfaces (i.e. interfaces between a linguistic module and a cognitive module) are more problematic for learners than internal interfaces/narrow syntax (Sorace & Filiaci, 2006; Sorace, 2011; inter alia). Because my findings were inconsistent with the IH (i.e. target-like pragmatics knowledge can precede syntactic awareness of the same construction), I turned to the Integrative Model of Bilingual Acquisition (Pires & Rothman, 2011), which accounts for non-native divergence by resorting to the interplay of a series of factors (i.e. formal complexity, L1-L2 parameter mapping, processing resources, and PLD). This more articulated model is not only able to account for the patterns in these experiments but it also constitutes a more integrated explanation for the intricacies of the acquisition process.
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Paulweber, Philipp, Georg Simhandl, and Uwe Zdun. "Specifying with Interface and Trait Abstractions in Abstract State Machines: A Controlled Experiment." ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 30, no. 4 (July 2021): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3450968.
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Abstract State Machine (ASM) theory is a well-known state-based formal method. As in other state-based formal methods, the proposed specification languages for ASMs still lack easy-to-comprehend abstractions to express structural and behavioral aspects of specifications. Our goal is to investigate object-oriented abstractions such as interfaces and traits for ASM-based specification languages. We report on a controlled experiment with 98 participants to study the specification efficiency and effectiveness in which participants needed to comprehend an informal specification as problem (stimulus) in form of a textual description and express a corresponding solution in form of a textual ASM specification using either interface or trait syntax extensions. The study was carried out with a completely randomized design and one alternative (interface or trait) per experimental group. The results indicate that specification effectiveness of the traits experiment group shows a better performance compared to the interfaces experiment group, but specification efficiency shows no statistically significant differences. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study studying the specification effectiveness and efficiency of object-oriented abstractions in the context of formal methods.
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Saab, Andres. "Syntax or nothing: Some theoretical and empirical remarks on implicit arguments." Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 3, no. 2 (November 17, 2014): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/1.3.2.2952.
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<p>I show that core implicit subjects in Spanish (i.e., the ones that occur with analytical passives, impersonal <em>se</em>, and causatives) can be derived from a theory under which absence of <em>Merge</em> in external subject position is a possible syntactic output. Core implicit arguments then have no syntactic representation (<em>pace</em> Landau 2010). Absence of <em>Merge</em> can make to arise two different scenarios: (i) a conflict at the interfaces, which requires the implementation of some repair strategy, (ii) no conflict at the interfaces; i.e., a legitimate object at the interfaces. The first scenario is illustrated with reference to the so-called impersonal <em>se</em> in Spanish, and the second one with reference to analytical passives. The proposed system is able to capture a set of very intricate facts that does not have a satisfactory solution hitherto. Crucially, this particular view on implicit arguments, together with a purely syntactic theory of argument structure, derives the full distribution of impersonals and reflexives in <em>hacer</em> ‘to make’ causative contexts. Finally, it is shown that the arbitrary readings that the two scenarios above described display have a different source: whereas impersonal <em>se</em> requires (costly) default computation at the interface, arbitrary interpretations in analytical passives are calculated at the <em>v</em>P level. </p>
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Smeets, Liz. "The acquisition of object movement in Dutch: L1 transfer and near-native grammars at the syntax–discourse interface." Second Language Research 35, no. 4 (July 20, 2018): 479–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658318782357.
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This article investigates near-native grammars at the syntax–discourse interface by examining the second language (L2) acquisition of two different domains of object movement in Dutch, which exhibit syntax–discourse or syntax–semantics level properties. English and German near-native speakers of Dutch, where German but not English allows the same mapping strategies as Dutch in the phenomena under investigation, are tested on two felicity judgment tasks and a truth value judgment task. The results from the English participants show sensitivity to discourse information on the acceptability of non-canonical word orders, but only when the relevant discourse cues are sufficiently salient in the input. The acquisition of semantic effects on object movement was native-like for a large subset of the participants. The German group performed on target in all experiments. The results are partially in line with previous studies reporting L2 convergence at the syntax–discourse interface, but suggest that input effects should also be taken into account. Furthermore, the differences between the first language (L1) English and the L1 German group suggests that non-target performance at the syntax–discourse interface is not caused by general bilingual difficulties in integrating discourse information into syntax. The article elaborates on factors that contribute to (in)complete acquisition at the syntax–discourse interface.
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Jeong-Seok Kim. "Stylistic Fronting: A Syntax-Phonology Interface." Studies in Generative Grammar 18, no. 2 (May 2008): 207–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.15860/sigg.18.2.200805.207.
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Yeun-Jin Jung. "Syntax-Phonology Interface of Wh-questions." Studies in Generative Grammar 20, no. 1 (February 2010): 73–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.15860/sigg.20.1.201002.73.
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Hill, Virginia. "Vocatives and the pragmatics–syntax interface." Lingua 117, no. 12 (December 2007): 2077–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.01.002.
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Petrova, Nyurguyana. "Syntax-Pragmatics interface in converbal constructions." LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 1 (May 2, 2010): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.523.
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Converbs are non-finite verb forms which indicate adverbial subordination (Haspelmath 1995). Converbal clauses can occur in chaining constructions, where they are stacked one after the other to advance the narration (Nedjalkov 1995). Bickel (2006) has claimed that there are cross-linguistic occurrences of such constructions, where the scope of an interrogative marker is indeterminate. The chaining constructions in Sakha (Yakut), a Turkic language, show variation in illocutionary scope, which is determined by focus assignment. This study provides a mechanism for deriving Sakha converbs and their interaction in terms of mood and information-structure in chaining constructions.
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جمعة جمعة, مؤيد, and زينب محمود الكواز. "Syntax-Semantics Interface in Linguistic Theory." Al-Adab Journal 1, no. 122 (December 9, 2018): 41–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v1i122.233.
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According to a process called selected focusing, the linguist in order to produce a coherent statement or an adequate description has to focus on one aspect of a language and exclude the others. Yet, such isolation is only an artificial element. A layman or a child does not have a least idea about the various levels of language. Yet, he is very-well equipped with the grammatical, structural, and semantic tools that help him to instantly identify the ill-formed or unmeaningful sentences of his native language as language is learned and taught as a whole.
With regard to syntax-semantics interface in linguistic literature, two opposite mainstreams have been found; a syntactically- oriented perspective (Chomsky 1957, 65, 79, 81, Cullicover 1976, Radford 1988, Horrock 1987, and Haegman 1992) modified and supported later on by the Optimality Theory approach (henceforth OT) established by Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky (1993) and a semantically-oriented one in its two facets the generative and the interpretive (Jerrold J. Katz & Jerry A. Fodor: 1963, George Lakoff 1963) developed in some of its aspects by Charles Fillmore's case grammar (1968). Furthermore, a great deal of effort has been proposed in line with these two opposite approaches to produce some experimental psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies to support or reject one or both of them (Millar & Mckean 1964, Savin & Perchonock 1965, and Clifton & Odom 1966, Gleason, J. & Ratner, N. 1993, Friederici, Angela D., & Jürgen Weissenborn 2007).
The early generative transformational approach went too far in insisting that the syntactic aspect has an autonomous characteristic and should be dealt with in isolation from semantics; others argue that they are interrelated and cannot be separated. Some linguists as the generative semanticists consider semantics as more basic in grammatical description than syntax; whereas, others hold a totally reversed approach assuming that semantics cannot be described and it should be considered as an extra-linguistic element.
This paper is at attempt to shed some light on this serious linguistic controversy to arrive at some general outlines that might help the linguistic theorists, language second/foreign teachers and students to establish a scientific scheme in dealing with language.
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Nerbonne, John. "A feature-based syntax/semantics interface." Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 8, no. 1-2 (September 1993): 107–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02451551.
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DESTRUEL, EMILIE, and BRYAN DONALDSON. "Second language acquisition of pragmatic inferences: Evidence from the Frenchc'est-cleft." Applied Psycholinguistics 38, no. 3 (November 21, 2016): 703–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0142716416000400.
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ABSTRACTThis paper examines the extent to which second language (L2) speakers of French acquire the semantic and pragmatic (or interpretive) properties associated with thec'est-cleft, specifically the exhaustive inference. This phenomenon is relevant to theories of language acquisition because it is situated at the interface of syntax and pragmatics. The results from a forced-choice task challenge the empirical adequacy of the interface hypothesis (Sorace, 2011, 2012; Sorace & Filiaci, 2006), which claims that external interfaces between a linguistic module and a cognitive module remain problematic even at the highest levels of L2 acquisition. The results from 40 L2 learners at three proficiency levels reveal development from nontargetlike to nativelike behavior. In particular, the high-proficiency group interprets thec'est-cleft, as well as canonical subject–verb–object sentences and sentences with exclusives (i.e.,seul(ement)“only”), in a statistically identical way to the French native speaker control group.
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Egg, Markus. "Anti-Ikonizität an der Syntax-Semantik-Schnittstelle." Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfs.2006.001.
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AbstractThe syntax-semantics interface is iconic in that it maps syntactic asymmetries (in particular, unilateral c-command) onto semantic asymmetries (scope relations). But many modification structures seem to violate this iconicity: here the modifier has (optionally or obligatorily) semantic scope over only a part of the expression that it modifies syntactically.First I will show that some well-known cases of syntax-semantics mismatch are instances of this phenomenon. Then I will specify an extremely flexible syntax-semantics interface to handle the apparent anti-iconicity. This interface crucially relies on the expressive power of a suitable underspecification formalism.With the interface one can derive the semantic representations of the problematic examples from surface-oriented syntactic structures without giving up the iconicity between syntax and semantics.Apparent anti-iconicity eventually emerges as scope underspecification between a modifier and part of the expression that it modifies. The analysis is applied to German and Turkish data.
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Sánchez, Liliana, José Camacho, and Jose Elías Ulloa. "Shipibo-Spanish: Differences in residual transfer at the syntax-morphology and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces." Second Language Research 26, no. 3 (July 2010): 329–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658310365774.
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In this article, we present a study that tests the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace and Filiaci, 2006) at the syntax—pragmatics interface and its possible extension to the syntax—morphology interface in two groups of first language (L1) speakers of Shipibo with different levels of formal instruction in Spanish as a second language (L2). Shipibo is a mixed null subject language that only allows third person null subjects and has no person morphology on the verb. Spanish is a null subject language with rich person morphology on the verb. Evidence of acquisition of a core syntactic property (the extension of null subject licensing from third to first person subjects) was found in the speech of both groups of Shipibo speakers. No significant evidence of residual non-native patterns at the syntax—morphology interface was found (subject—verb mismatches in person) in the group with higher levels of formal instruction. At the syntax—pragmatics interface, we found non-native distribution of first person null subjects in both groups of Shipibo speakers that indicates residual transfer of discourse organization properties concerning topics from Shipibo into Spanish.
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Laleko, Oksana, and Maria Polinsky. "Between syntax and discourse." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6, no. 4 (March 25, 2016): 396–439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.14018.lal.
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Abstract This article examines the knowledge of topic and subject particles in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Japanese and Korean. We assume that topic marking is mediated at the syntax-information structure interface, while subject marking pertains to narrow syntax. In comparing phenomena mediated at different levels of linguistic organization, we provide evidence for the hypothesis that information structure-level phenomena present greater challenges for bilingual speakers than those mediated within syntax. While these results may be interpreted as evidence of generalized interface-related deficits, we show that such a global explanation is not supported. Instead, a more nuanced account is developed, based on the recognition of different types of topic (anaphoric, generic, and contrastive) and different types of subject (descriptive and exhaustive). Under the proposed account, non-native speakers’ deficits follow from three unrelated effects: the status of topic as an interface category, structural complexity, and the memory demands necessary for its interpretation in context.
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Kraš, Tihana. "The lexicon-syntax interface in child L2 grammars of Italian." EUROSLA Yearbook 10 (August 4, 2010): 220–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eurosla.10.12kra.
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This paper investigates the knowledge of two unaccusative diagnostics in Italian, auxiliary selection and ne cliticisation, in child L2 grammars of L1 Croatian speakers. The two phenomena are not instantiated in Croatian. Following Sorace (2000), it is assumed in the paper that the lexical-semantic aspect of these phenomena is characterised by gradience that can be captured by the Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy. Findings are reported of an experimental study in which highly proficient child L2 learners and their monolingual peers rated the acceptability of two Italian auxiliaries and ne-cliticisation with different lexical-semantic classes of intransitives by using the Magnitude Estimation technique. The learners’ judgements largely converged on those of the native speakers, suggesting that the two phenomena had been acquired in the L2. Such findings support the hypothesis predicting complete L2 acquisition of properties pertaining to an interface between two domains within the language factory (the so-called internal interfaces), in this case syntax and the lexicon.
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Gutiérrez-Mangado, M. Juncal, and María Martínez-Adrián. "CLIL at the linguistic interfaces." Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 6, no. 1 (January 26, 2018): 85–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jicb.17002.gut.
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Abstract This study explores the effect of CLIL on the acquisition of nominal morphology (syntax-morphology interface) and article use (syntax-semantics-discourse-interface), linguistic areas that have been scarcely investigated in CLIL settings. Here we compare article omission and overuse errors in an oral production task performed by L1 Basque-Spanish learners of L3 English in two CLIL and non-CLIL groups matching in age at testing time and amount of exposure. Results indicate that as regards nominal morphology, CLIL and non-CLIL learners are equal in terms of the omission of the definite and the indefinite article, but CLIL learners learn to solve article overuse more quickly than non-CLIL learners. Taking together these results and the findings from our previous study (Martínez-Adrián & Gutiérrez-Mangado, 2015a), which revealed the non-existence of CLIL benefits with respect to the acquisition of verbal morphology, we conclude that while the syntax-morphology interface seems to be unaffected by CLIL, CLIL can aid in the acquisition of features from the syntax-semantics-discourse interface.
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Vlachos, Christos, and Michalis Chiou. "The syntax, semantics and pragmatics of ‘optional’ wh-in situ in Greek." Journal of Greek Linguistics 20, no. 1 (June 4, 2020): 102–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02001001.
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Abstract Building on the relevant literature, this paper provides an up-to-now missing overarching approach to ‘optional’ wh-in situ questions in Greek, by arguing that some properties of wh-in situ are computed at the interface between syntax and semantics, other properties relate to the syntax-pragmatics interface, and yet others are derived at the interface between PF and pragmatics. Wh-in situ is not semantically (hence, syntactically) equivalent to wh-fronting, with the latter being the default strategy of Greek on empirical grounds. Wh-in situ assumes distinct syntax and semantics, while its pragmatics is computed partly by the way it is associated to the discourse, and partly by intonation.
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GIEGERICH, HEINZ J. "Associative adjectives in English and the lexicon–syntax interface." Journal of Linguistics 41, no. 3 (November 2005): 571–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226705003440.
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This article argues that of English adjective–noun constructions involving associative adjectives (‘associative AdjNs’), some originate in the lexicon and others in the syntax. While in many cases such constructions are unambiguously and for identifiable reasons located on one side or the other of the lexicon–syntax ‘divide’, variation being possible only across speakers, a range of associative AdjNs is identified which must be simultaneously, and for the same speakers, of both lexical and syntactic provenance. There is therefore no lexicon–syntax ‘divide’: the two modules overlap.
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Shiobara, Kayono. "Prosodic Phase and Left-to-Right Structure Building." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 53, no. 2-3 (November 2008): 253–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100004485.
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AbstractI consider the empirical domain constituted by word order alternations in the verbal domain in English and Japanese. Based on the observation of prosodic properties of these alternations, a derivational analysis of the syntax-prosody interface is proposed in the context of a model of grammar in which linearization is determined by core syntax and the syntax-prosody interface. This approach crucially posits, and hence gives independent support for, two auxiliary assumptions: incremental structure building in the grammar and multiple spell-out into the phonological component.
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Massery, Laurie A., and Claudio Fuentes. "Morphological variability at the morphosyntactic/semantic interface." ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 165, no. 1 (June 6, 2014): 46–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/itl.165.1.03mas.
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Recent literature in second language acquisition shows that syntax-driven structures give way to successful modal interpretation and morphological production, while discourse-dependent environments do not (Sorace, 2005; Tsimpli & Sorace, 2006, Borganovo, Bruhn de Garavito, & Prévost, 2008; Iverson, Kempchinsky, & Rothman, 2008). It has also been suggested that discourse-dependent environments involve both structural and pragmatic knowledge of L2, which intersect at the syntax-discourse interface (Sorace, 2005; Iverson, Kempchinsky, & Rothman, 2008), thereby requiring a multi-layered understanding of the target language. The present study contributes to this line of research by further examining morphological variability (Prévost & White, 2000; Sorace, 2000; Sorace, 2005; Iverson, Kempchinsky, & Rothman, 2008; Slabakova, 2009) in L2 acquisition at the morphosyntactic-semantic interface, following the work of Borganovo, Bruhn de Garavito, & Prévost (2008). The results of our study reveal that learners, even at advanced stages of acquisition, perform poorly in epistemic environments where syntax and discourse intersect. In such environments, there appears to be an interaction with pragmatics (cf. Iverson, Kempchinsky, & Rothman, 2008) that causes learners to opt for the indicative mood, even when the subjunctive is prescriptively required. Unlike deontic modality, which is essentially syntax-driven, epistemic modality requires structural knowledge, as well as knowledge from other domains (Sorace, 2005). Our study reveals that learners at all levels of instruction performed better in “purely syntactic” environments of deontic modality than in pragmatically challenging epistemic environments.
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Zanuttini, Raffaella, and Paul Portner. "Exclamative clauses at the syntax-semantics interface." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 24 (January 1, 2001): 1–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.24.2001.126.
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Exclamative clauses exhibit a structural diversity which raises the question of whether they form a clause type in the sense of Sadock & Zwicky (1985). Based on data from English, Italian, and Paduan, we argue that the class of exclamatives is syntactically characterizable in terms of a pair of abstract syntactic properties. Moreover, we propose that these properties encode two components of meaning which uniquely define the semantics and pragmatics of exclarnatives. Overall, our paper is a contribution to the study of the syntaxlsemantics interface and offers a new perspective on the notion of clause type.
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Al Jumaily, Samir. "Syntax-Semantics Interface: Arabic is a Case." Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 1, no. 1 (2018): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31559/baes2018.1.1.1.
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Cho, JunMo. "Syntax-Semantics Interface and Licensing of Nominals." Language and Linguistics 83 (February 28, 2018): 219–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.20865/20198308.
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Devine, Andrew M., and Laurence D. Stephens. "Towards a Syntax-Semantics Interface for Latin." Catalan Journal of Linguistics 16 (December 22, 2017): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.210.
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Sauerland, Uli, and Pooja Paul. "Discrete Infinity and the Syntax-semantics Interface." Revista Linguíʃtica 13, no. 2 (September 1, 2017): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14031.
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Discrete infnity was identifed as a central feature of human language by Humboldt who famously spoke of making infnite use of fnite means. Later Chomsky refocused attention on this property starting with Chomsky (1957). In a number of works since, Chomsky has repeatedly stressed the centrality of infnity for understanding language. For example, Chomsky (2007) writes that “An I-language is a computational system that generates infnitely many internal expressions”. Chomsky also noted that the property of discrete infnity is shared by the natural numbers and language. This connection has also caught the interest of others in cognitive science (e.g. Dehaene 1999, Dehaene et al. 1999). In this squib, we want to discuss concrete reductions of discrete infnity of the natural number. Specifcally, we want to investigate the extent to which this connection is compatible with current views of the syntax-semantics interface. We argue that merge alone is not enough to derive infnity, but a minimal lexicon is necessary, as Chomsky (2007) has noted in passing. We furthermore show that Chomsky’s assertion that a single lexical item is sufcient to generate the natural numbers depends on two assumptions -- an untyped lambda calculus, and a specifc interpretation of the syntactic Merge operation.
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AN YOUNGJAE. "L2 Syntax-Semantics Interface of Wh-Questions." Studies in English Language & Literature 45, no. 1 (February 2019): 349–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21559/aellk.2019.45.1.016.
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Rosen, Sara Thomas, and Carol L. Tenny. "Aspectual Roles and the Syntax-Semantics Interface." Language 74, no. 4 (December 1998): 847. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417009.
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Steedman, Mark. "Information Structure and the Syntax-Phonology Interface." Linguistic Inquiry 31, no. 4 (October 2000): 649–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438900554505.
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The article proposes a theory of grammar relating syntax, discourse semantics, and intonational prosody. The full range of English intonational tunes distinguished by Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986) and their semantic interpretation in terms of focus and information structure are discussed, including “discontinuous” themes and rhemes. The theory extends an earlier account based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, which directly pairs phonological and logical forms without intermediary representational levels.
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Tsoulas, George, and Kook-Hee Gil. "Elucidating the notion of syntax–pragmatics interface." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1, no. 1 (March 16, 2011): 104–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.1.1.18tso.
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