Lynen Fellowship - Case and Coordination

该项目主要由亚历山大冯洪堡基金会（德国）资助，提供了一个国际合作的机会，使一名德国博士后学者能够在康涅狄格大学与Jonathan Bobaljik博士领导的研究小组进行理论形态句法研究。该研究项目旨在更好地了解协调中的不平衡案件形式。在主要的欧洲语言中，两个连在一起的名词短语通常具有相同的格形式-在像“The prize will be given to [us and them]”这样的句子中，括号中的两个代词都是省略形式，因为它们都是介词to的宾语。众所周知，在许多语言中，连词中只有一个名词短语会以这种方式具有适合于整个连词的格形式。例如，在乌拉尔语Mari中，只有连接宾语短语中的第二个名词具有句法上下文的规则格，而另一个表达是无标记的。（在文献中没有系统地调查），另一方面，发展选定的例子，特别是乌拉尔，一组理论上丰富的未充分研究的语言。从理论上讲，这项研究建立在Weisser（2014）关于小句协调中的不对称性的博士研究的基础上，该研究认为，明显对称的协调具有内部层次结构。要问的研究问题涉及语言学理论中的许多广泛主题，包括格和一致性之间的关系（协调中的不对称性在一致性方面的研究比在格中的研究要好得多），线性顺序与结构在形态和句法概括中的作用。更广泛地说，该项目通过开展广泛的跨语言调查，沿着以特定研究假设为依据的选定案例研究，有助于更精确地了解跨语言多样性和这种差异的局限性。

This project, funded primarily by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), affords an opportunity for an international collaboration, allowing a German post-doctoral scholar to conduct research in theoretical morphosyntax at the University of Connecticut, with a research group led by Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik. The research project aims to provide a better understanding of unbalanced case forms in coordination. In major European languages, two conjoined noun phrases normally bear the same case forms - in a sentence like "The prize will be given to [us and them]," both pronouns in the bracketed expression are in the accusative form as both serve as the object of the preposition to. It is known that in many languages, only one of the noun phrases in a conjunction will bear the case form appropriate to the conjunction as a whole in this way. For example, in the Uralic language Mari, only the second noun in a conjoined object phrase bears the regular case for the syntactic context the other expression is unmarked.While sporadic examples are known, this project on the one hand undertakes a cross-linguistic survey of these constructions (which have not been systematically surveyed in the literature) and on the other hand develops case studies of selected examples, particularly from Uralic, a theoretically rich group of understudied languages. Theoretically, the research builds on Weisser's (2014) doctoral research on asymmetries in clausal coordination, where it is argued that apparently symmetrical coordinations have an internal hierarchical structure. Research questions to be asked bear on a number of broad themes in linguistic theory including the relationship between case and agreement (asymmetries in coordination are much more well studies in agreement than in case), the role of linear order versus structure in morphological and syntactic generalizations. More broadly, by conducting a broad, cross-linguistic survey along with selected case studies informed by specific research hypotheses, the project contributes to a more refined understanding both of cross-linguistic diversity and the limits of such variation.