Doctoral Dissertation Research: Argument Realization and (Non-)agreement

博士论文研究：论证实现和（非）一致

• 批准号: 1946625
• 负责人: John Beavers
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1946625&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Argument; Realization

The distinction between arguments and adjuncts is assumed to be a universal distinction made by languages and is specifically built into the architecture of many modern syntactic theories. Broadly speaking, arguments are phrases that the verb requires to form a complete meaning, while adjuncts add in optional extra information. Recent linguistic investigation has identified a language that challenges the argument-adjunct distinction as a linguistic universal in two ways. First, while most arguments are weakly distinguished from adjuncts by being marked on the verb, certain typical arguments lack even this as a distinguishing feature. Second, the processes for reducing a verb’s arguments seem to operate through generalized mechanisms that may ignore the verb’s specific meaning, unlike in other languages. The documentation here will form a core component of the doctoral dissertation of the Co-PI. Broader impacts include a publicly available deposit of recordings and transcriptions at a digital repository housed at the University of Texas at Austin. This project examines secondary objects and middles within a larger investigation of argument realization in a language that allows at most one object to be indexed on the verb; thus there is currently no distinction between secondary objects and unindexable adjuncts. This project explores three questions about secondary objects: (a) do secondary objects introduce new participants or realize those already in the predicate's meaning; (b) what is the grammatical function of secondary objects and are they distinct from other dependents; and (c) what factors govern which dependent is indexed on the verb? Finally, this project aims for a fuller description of middle constructions, with a focus on how the lexical semantics of the verb affects its behavior in middle contexts, and how such argument suppression interacts with argument realization properties.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

实参和修饰语之间的区别被认为是语言之间的普遍区别，并且被专门构建到许多现代句法理论的架构中。从广义上讲，实参是动词形成完整意义所必需的短语，而修饰语则是附加可选的额外信息。最近的语言学研究发现，一种语言以两种方式挑战了论元-修饰语的区别。首先，虽然大多数论证都有标记在动词上，因此很难将其与修饰语区分开来，但某些典型的论证甚至连这一点都没有。其次，与其他语言不同，简化动词论点的过程似乎是通过一般机制来操作的，而这种机制可能会忽略动词的特定含义。这里的文件将构成Co-PI博士论文的核心组成部分。更广泛的影响包括在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的数字存储库中公开存放录音和转录。本项目在一种最多允许一个对象在动词上索引的语言中，在对参数实现的更大调查中检查次要对象和中间对象；因此，目前在次要对象和不可索引的附属物之间没有区别。这个项目探讨了三个关于辅助宾语的问题：(a)辅助宾语是引入新的参与者还是实现那些已经存在于谓词意义中的参与者；(b)辅助宾语的语法功能是什么，它们与其他从属宾语有什么区别；(c)是什么因素决定了哪个依存词被索引到动词上？最后，本项目旨在对中间结构进行更全面的描述，重点关注动词的词汇语义如何影响其在中间上下文中的行为，以及这种参数抑制如何与参数实现属性相互作用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Beyond c-structure and f-structure: On the argument-adjunct distinction in O’dam

超越c结构和f结构：论Oâdam中论元与附加物的区别

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The proceedings of the LFG Conference
• 作者: Everdell, Michael;Melchin, Paul B.;Asudeh, Ash;Siddiqi, Daniel
• 通讯作者: Siddiqi, Daniel

Los aplicativos en tepehuano del sureste (o’dam) y tepehuano del suroeste (audam)

Los aplicativos en tepehuano del Sureste (oâdam) y tepehuano del suuroeste (audam)

• DOI: 10.24201/clecm.v9i0.243
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
• 作者: Everdell, Michael;García Salido, Gabriela
• 通讯作者: García Salido, Gabriela