Lynen Fellowship - Case and Coordination

该项目主要由Alexander von Humboldt基金会(德国)资助，为国际合作提供了机会，允许一名德国博士后学者在康涅狄格大学进行理论形态合成研究，研究小组由Jonathan Bobaljik博士领导。该研究项目旨在更好地了解不平衡案件形式的协调。在主要的欧洲语言中，两个连接的名词短语通常具有相同的格格式--在像“The Pride Will Ware Gate to[us and Them]”这样的句子中，括号中的两个代词都是宾格形式，因为它们都是介词to的宾语。众所周知，在许多语言中，只有连词中的一个名词短语会以这种方式具有与整个连词相适应的格形式。例如，在乌拉里语中，只有连体宾语短语中的第二个名词具有句法语境的规律性，另一个表达是无标记的。虽然零星的例子是已知的，但本项目一方面对这些结构进行了跨语言调查(文献中没有系统的调查)，另一方面对选定的例子进行了案例研究，特别是来自乌拉里语的案例研究，这是一组理论上丰富的未被研究的语言。理论上，这项研究建立在Weisser(2014)博士关于小句并列中的不对称性的研究基础上，该研究认为，表面上对称的并列具有内在的等级结构。要问的研究问题涉及语言学理论中的一些广泛主题，包括格和一致之间的关系(不对称在一致中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，通过进行广泛的、跨语言的调查以及由特定研究假设提供信息的选定案例研究，该项目有助于更好地理解跨语言多样性和这种差异的限制。

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.