Categorial shift: from description to theory and back again
Publication date: Available online 7 December 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Liesbet Heyvaert, Stefan Hartmann, Hubert Cuyckens (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - December 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language Sciences, Volume 71Author(s): (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - November 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Prologue
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Alain Berthoz (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - November 12, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Measuring the phonological (un)naturalness of selected alternation patterns in Polish
Publication date: Available online 2 November 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Bartłomiej CzaplickiAbstractIn most generative research phonological naturalness/markedness has served as a synchronic bias that can explain the predominance of certain patterns in the world's languages. In this paper, on the basis of one language, Polish, it is shown that unnatural patterns are far from rare and, therefore, phonological theories need to accommodate them. The two patterns under scrutiny, consonant mutations and progressive devoicing, are to a large degree unnatural but fully productive. Consonant mutations are subjected ...
Source: Language Sciences - November 3, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Aspectual features and categorial shift: deverbal nominals in German and English
Publication date: Available online 27 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Ulrike DemskeAbstractThe point of departure of this paper is the claim by Heyvaert, Maekelberghe & Buyle (this issue) that the suffix -ing has no aspectual meaning in English gerunds. Rather, the interpretation of nominal and verbal gerunds depends, so they argue, on situation or viewpoint aspect, a claim that contradicts the wide-spread view that the aspectual meaning of English gerunds is brought about by the nominalizing suffix. The present paper addresses the issue from a comparative perspective, focusing on German ung-nominals: while...
Source: Language Sciences - October 27, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
In what sense is integrational theory lay-oriented? Notes on Harrisian core concepts and explanatory terminology
Publication date: Available online 24 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Adrian Pablé (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - October 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: November 2018Source: Language Sciences, Volume 70Author(s): (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - October 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
A corpus-based view on the (aspectual-)semantics of Modern English nominalizations
Publication date: Available online 11 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Lauren FonteynAbstractIn this response article, I will challenge some of the claims presented by Iordăchioaia & Werner by suggesting that English ing-nominals were not entirely prevented from completing the ‘cycle of categorial shift’, and questioning the actual impact of the competition with Romance derived nominals on the development of ing-nominals with event denotation (i.e. nominal gerunds). The response is based on a detailed corpus-based analysis of Penn corpora of Modern English (PPCEME & PPCMBE, time span: 1500–1920), and ...
Source: Language Sciences - October 12, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Categorial shift and morphological differentiation
Publication date: Available online 6 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Livio GaetaAbstractMorphological differentiation is defined as the development of morphological variants which can be considered by speakers to shape the transition to a new, different category. After discussing different cases of morphological differentiation, the paper will focus on the accompanying changes that facilitate the process of category formation. This reflects an active Principle of Maximal Differentiation, which helps speakers distinguish the units belonging to the new categories from the others. (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - October 6, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
So odd an article in Danish: a reply to Van de Velde
Publication date: Available online 26 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Muriel NordeAbstractFreek Van de Velde's article "Wayward categorial shift: so odd an article" deals with an intriguing construction, whereby the degree adverb 'so' and an adjective precede an indefinite article, which is found in several (older) Germanic languages. Such Big Mess Constructions (hence BMCs) differ from canonical NPs because the adjective usually follows an article, instead of preceding it. This observation, as well as the fact that BMCs are found in several Germanic languages at some stage of their history, begs for an e...
Source: Language Sciences - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Karl Marx and the language sciences – critical encounters: introduction to the special issue
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Peter E. Jones (Source: Language Sciences)
Source: Language Sciences - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Production=signification: towards a semiotic materialism
This article sketches the outline of a semiotic materialism, drawing on Mexican-Ecuadoran philosopher Bolívar Echeverría's thesis that production=signification. For Echeverría, every process of social production and consumption is and must at the same time be a process of signification and interpretation. This thesis, initially developed in the mid-1970s, emerges most immediately from a novel synthesis of Marx with the work of Jakobson and Hjelmslev. It also establishes an expansive and highly original social ontology, at the core of which is a ‘trans-naturalised’ conception of the specificity of human social reprod...
Source: Language Sciences - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Or constructions, argumentative direction and disappearing ‘alternativity’
Publication date: Available online 1 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Mira ArielAbstractThe essence of X or Y constructions is the verbalization of multiple alternatives. It is a puzzling finding, then, that the most frequent reading associated with or constructions is Higher-level category (Ariel, 2015), where the speaker introduces into the discourse only a single concept. The goal of this paper is to explain why this is not so puzzling after all, and how such a “non-alternativity” reading could come about for a construction whose initial function is ‘alternativity’ between multiple, distinct optio...
Source: Language Sciences - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Nominal and verbal gerunds in present-day English: aspectual features and nominal status
Publication date: Available online 2 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Liesbet Heyvaert, Charlotte Maekelberghe, Anouk BuyleAbstractIn this paper, we want to add to the comparative description of Present-day English nominal and verbal gerundive nominalizations, by presenting the results of a quantitative, corpus-based analysis of their aspectual features. It will be shown that, in general, the claim that gerunds designate unbounded activities or activities that are in progress cannot be upheld—because a significant number of both nominal and verbal gerunds denote non-durative situations (achievements, semel...
Source: Language Sciences - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The meaning change of hayır during the Turkish constitutional referendum 2017
Publication date: Available online 21 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Johannes Woschitz, Emre YağlıAbstractHayır means both ‘good’ and ‘no’ in present-day Turkish. Hayır ‘good’ has been predominantly associated with a religious undertone. Recently, the Neo-Ottoman movement under the AKP has built on this connotation to promote their political ideology. In the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, the Turkish people decided whether they wanted to endorse this ideology: Evet (yes) meant increasing the power of the presidency and the AKP, while hayır (no) meant sustaining the competency of...
Source: Language Sciences - September 22, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
